Opinion: Automation is the future – we should be milking it

Opinion: Automation is the future – we should be milking it

Courtesy of a presentation to the recent Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU): College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) sustainable dairy webinar, UFU dairy committee chair, Mervyn Gordon, inferred that automation is not a silver bullet when it comes to solving the labour crisis in the dairy industry.

Specifically, he indicated that new technologies cannot fully replace the flexibility, dexterity and judgement of the human workforce.

I couldn’t disagree more . Personally, I would like my cows to be milked to the same high standard time after time after time!Moreover, modern tech is capable of identifying problems relating to high […]

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