Today's Des Moines Register ran a front-page feature today on the Lely robotic milking system that is operating on a dairy farm in Buffalo Center, Iowa. The farm is owned by Auggie Baumann and his son, Mike. They milk approximately 240 cows using 4 Lely Astronaut A3 robots. It's been a noticeable lifestyle change for the Baumanns since they installed the robots. They regularly talk about the new-found freedom they have in their lives, not being tied to the barn every waking hour of the day to push cows through a milker. The free-cow traffic that Lely robots work from allows cows to freely visit the robot when they want to.
The paper posted a short video as well. View it below.
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