Track 2-16: Dairying in Australia in the 21st Century
Publication Date
2013
Location
Sydney, Australia
Description
Automatic milking rotary (AMR) systems have the capacity to milk 800 cows. To maintain a pasture-based system whereby > 50% of the total diet is pasture (Garcia and Fulkerson, 2005), large herds milked by AMR will be required to walk significant distances. Walking distances of greater than 1-km are associated with an increased incidence of undesirably long milking intervals and reduced milk yield (Lyons N, unpubl. data). The aim of this study was to investigate the total land area required and associated walking distance for large automatic milking system (AMS) herds when incorporating complementary forage rotations (CFR; Garcia et al., 2008) into the system.
Citation
Islam, Mohammed R.; Garcia, Sergio C.; Clark, Cameron E. F.; and Kerrisk, Kendra L., "System Fitness of Grazeable Forages for Large Herds in Automatic Milking Systems" (2013). IGC Proceedings (1985-2023). 2.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/22/2-16/2)
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System Fitness of Grazeable Forages for Large Herds in Automatic Milking Systems
Sydney, Australia
Automatic milking rotary (AMR) systems have the capacity to milk 800 cows. To maintain a pasture-based system whereby > 50% of the total diet is pasture (Garcia and Fulkerson, 2005), large herds milked by AMR will be required to walk significant distances. Walking distances of greater than 1-km are associated with an increased incidence of undesirably long milking intervals and reduced milk yield (Lyons N, unpubl. data). The aim of this study was to investigate the total land area required and associated walking distance for large automatic milking system (AMS) herds when incorporating complementary forage rotations (CFR; Garcia et al., 2008) into the system.
