Robotic system a smaller, cheaper build for this new entrant to dairy farming

If automatic milking is to realistically have a role in Irish dairying, then it must be integrated with the grass based system.

I recently visited one farmer who has successfully incorporated robotic milking into a grass-based system.

Rory Delaney farms near Ballyhaunis in Co Mayo. Rory is a new entrant to dairying, having previously had a herd of 80 suckler cows with the progeny kept to beef. Of the 80-suckler herd, 25 heifers were in a once-calved heifer system.