The University of Wisconsin River Falls is utilizing new milking robots to expand research and reduce labor.
Tera Montgomery with UW Platteville’s School of Agriculture says the dairy building was constructed in 2005 and was designed so half of the college’s 190-cow dairy herd used their old milking robots and the other half were milked through a parlor. “When we stopped using those (old) robots, all of the herd had to be milked through the parlor and it just wasn’t designed for that.”
Montgomery says Dairy Innovation Hub funding from the state has allowed them to purchase the new Lely robots, which both reduce the need for student milking labor and open several research opportunities.
