What the Farmer
Has to Say About VMS
Have you heard of the robot milking systems? Do you use them?
“Yes, most dairy farmers know about the robot systems. We don’t use the robot milking systems at our dairy. Most of the dairies in Texas don’t use them either, but I do know that they are very popular in other states, especially in the midwest.”
Why don’t you use the robots?
“We have a lot of money invested in our milking machines and changing over would just be too expensive right now. But maybe later.”
What kind of things have you heard about the VMS?
“The farmers that use them seem to like them. They say that because the cows can choose when they are milked, the cows are choosing to go more than twice a day and that has increased the quantity of milk that they get from each cow.”
An Interview With a Texas Diary Farmer at the Texas State Fair in Dallas, Oct. 2006
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