Robot Dairy Farming in Ireland - Honest opinion/Maintenance.. A day in the life
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Filmed in early March 2020. Have you ever wondered how a robot could milk cows? I was looking on the internet and youtube this last while and it was difficult to find an honest opinion of someone running a robotic milking system without a sales rep standing beside them. Hopefully, you are more informed about how the system works and some routine maintenance on a robot. This is not paid sponsorship this is just an honest opinion from a young farmer, enthusiastic about his system. If you would like to know more about the system or the grass management in another video let me down below. Hope you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching.
Very well put together video, better than the "ear to the ground!"😅
Keep it going, you know what its about
An excellent video to get an honest view instead of the usual propaganda, very well-made video, keep up the good work, from your old Ag Science teacher💪🚜
Great video....
How about a breakdown
Of the cost of the set
Up .......? Payback time
&so on ...
Yea sounds like a good idea ill chat to the man and see what i can come up with
Could this movie be translated? because I don't understand much English. I have 60 cows myself and I'm interested in such a robot
If the title was "How to maintain a robotic milking machine with a pin knife" you would get 1million views.
Great video btw
Naill haha ya know somthing , your absolutely right, i would never have thought of that title in a million years. Gman 😋 cheers lad
Clean is key!!! Prevents mastitis !! Singe your udders and you'll be alright!
Oh and don't forget the operator too! Making sure they are clean too! I love the accent !! 🤓
What would the maximum number of cows he could milk after expanding? Would be good to see what he has had to do to make the farm ready for robots and what the future plans are.
There is a bay for another robot , the lely lads in mullingar designed that shed for 2 robots and as far as i know its around 60 cows per robot like so the system is built for 120cows. Yep there savage points , ill deffo do a video on that stuff cillian , thanks for that Cillian
Grand video, 10/10.
Class video. Looks like a handy set up.
Excellent vid.
Thanks Matthew. Stay tuned becuase im gona be doing a mini series on owning robot ,gona talk yo other farmers. should be up in the next couple weeks.
Is it worth putting robots in? Especially likely since they only do 55-60 cows?
Great video!
The price of fertiliser, feed etc going up and the price of a litre of milk going down. The problem with equipment is it needs constant supervision and maintenance.
True true, robots arnt a yoke that u set up and walk away from like , tis a common misconception like , and as u said tec costs money and when it goes wrong your kinda helpless and service charges arnt cheep
To be honest you do seem hands and willing to learn about the robot and that is necessary in order to keep things running smoothly as one cannot be calling out technicians all the time. I have heard horror stories about robots with regards to call outs and cows left there without being milked. It's serious technology.
Another serious video 👌🏻
Yea turned out well , cheers lad
Whats going through a dairy farmers mind after he shells out 300k for a number of robots, another 300k for a building,auto scrapers, cubicles, crush and handling yard, another 300k for extra heifers and a bit of extra ground next door + grass he is already renting......then to see his fellow British and American farmers dumping milk as domestic and international dairy markets crash, on top of unpredictable weather patterns like 2012,13,18,winter 19 etc, and a very possible WTO brexit after December 2020??
Im not even being sarcastic here but probably thinking somthing like " a pint, is well over due" 😂
@@simplyagri5191 ha ha yes quite a few pints would be needed!! & a few chasers, We all know at least 4 who are 600k+ in the red!!
@@mac6899 infarness to ya Mac , your apsolutly right. Some fellas have invested large amounts of money that they dont have themselves but had to borrow , some would say that was extremely foolish because the dairy market was never going to hold forever. But however in my opnion, take it every day as it comes, be greatful for those around u who love u and just keep er lit , one day at a time. There is always someone in a worse position that us
@mac Fair point mac !
@@simplyagri5191 Don't worry, We put in our new robots in 2009 in Australia. As soon as we put the first cow in, the milk price collapsed and has taken ten years to recover. The robots were the only way we could survive because I was able to work a second job instead of taking wages. Now I will be able to buy the farm of the old man. Hang in there. P.s get onto Lely about adding manual connection, would make life a bit easier.
Nice video. What part of the country are they in? How many cows? Would you do a follow up video when the cows are at grass? Would be good to see
Thanks. Laois. Building the herd at the moment, around 50 cows this year . Yep deffo , thats the plan 👌
I'm interested in putting in a robot but dont know where to start! Any tips?? A break down of costs over a conventional parlour wud be great. I'm milking at d min but needs updating badly
Gman Paddy. Yea , im doing exams for the next 2 weeks but after that ill be back out and ill try cover that aspect of robots for you and get the boys opnion. Honeslty my opnion is your a lucky man that u havnt spent the money because for the next 2 years until this virus is a thing of the past ,dairying will be stop start with tight margins for the men who have pumped money into the job. Ill try do some investigation into financing of robots , i could be wrong but i think if u take the minimum salary for your self like 10 to 15 grand a year , with 60 cows you should have a robot payed off in 3 years. Thanks the comment Paddy
@@simplyagri5191 Best of luck with d exams!! Thanks for d reply 👍
Excellent video.😊
Thanks very much
lovely video a honest review thank you so much not too much of a advertisement for lely in the last part of the video you’d be quicker if you could just throw the clusters on yourself
Ye , the point of the videos are not advertisements for anyone. Just to give people who dont have the gear in front them a perspective of the people who do 🙂 simples. Its ten times faster sure to put it on yourself 😅😂
For the ones it doesn’t get on (like the ones with weird udders and heifers with small teats) that you had to hold on. Does that mean you’d have to be around every day of the week to make sure all get milked?
The robot takes images of the udders when entering for the first time.
So robot knows where the udders are and how big they are.
do u hve job availabe now sir?? i want to apply..
Clean robot is happy robot
Nice set-up where did you buy your robot's
Lely centre Mullingar. There are like 4 or 5 Lely centres around the island of Ireland. As you probably know the lely centres are like dealerahips for the robots. Lely centre mullingar provide a top class service
Mullingar are supposed to be on the ball alright michelstown are a joke
@@Kt-ro2fm ahh hard to know now, never met the boys in michelstown to be fare to them. Mullingar do provide an excellent service though to be fare to them
We have one of those some job
the shit could be uded to make biogas and fertilizer
What the name of the song when he was feeding
Winter winds mumford and sons
Simply Agri sound lawd
For a man thats 6'1 a little stool be handy.
Nice. I suscribe you
4:15 do they buy their milk?
Dose who buy wha ?
@@simplyagri5191 there stand bottles of milk. it looks like they buy it from the store instead of taking it from the tank from their own cows
@@11rt23ezohh righty, yes i see what you mean. Yea no the boys buy milk locally in the shop , if there stuck then it comes from the tank
What's her name? Buttons?
😂😂😂 your gas man
Could have been the 'lo''o' for the million!!!! Interesting video like😀
Cheers Oliver
youd want traffic lights in that pasage ..nearly got knockeddown..
Haha yea traffic lights and roundabouts
Hello mate :) can u add Text on your wideo pls? :) i dont speak English wery well and some Times i Cant understand. Whit txt culd be better cuz i can try to translate it :)
No bother atal Boss
You can't farm on an app.
Just watch.
beurk shit in the milk