Equipment should match milker’s capacity

How many cows can one person milk? This is the question addressed by guest contributor Dr Bernadette O’Brien in the June 2015 edition of the CellCheck newsletter.

The milking process should be recognised as the most important operation on the dairy farm, says Dr O’Brien, of the Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Moorepark.

From a labour perspective it is the most significant task of the day, accounting for about 33% of total labour demand, irrespective of herd size.