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DAIRY FARMING

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENHANCES

FARMER INSIGHT

DeLaval Plus is a portal for an ever-grow- better everyday decisions,” explains René to evolve and better serve our customers
ing set of cloud-based services that enable Kolbach, Business Development and Go to as more farms and data points are con-
advanced farm management analysis and Market Manager. “DeepBlue will continue nected globally.”
reporting. By drawing on the latest in data As of March 2023, DeLaval Plus had
processing, farmers can ensure that their been launched in eight markets around the
cows are healthy, well looked after, and world, with plans to introduce the portal to
milked efficiently, safely and sustainably. another 12 countries during 2023.
The portal is powered by DeLaval Deep-
Blue, which uses artificial intelligence to find “DeLaval Plus will also support our deal-
patterns and trends in data from connected ers who are our essential business part-
DeLaval farms all around the world. ners,” says Kolbach. “Enhanced analysis
of the performance of DeLaval milking
“We’ve come a long way with farm data systems through DeLaval Plus will enable
in recent years, but DeLaval Plus takes data our dealers to better understand farmer
insight to the next level by drawing on needs and deliver an even higher level of
tens of millions of data points from around service and more proactive support to their
the world to empower farmers to make customers.”

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DLG TEST CONFIRMS: GEA MILKING ROBOT IS

SIGNIFICANTLY MORE ECONOMICAL

GEA’s new generation of the DairyRobot various milking manufacturers. By making optimizations. The new generation of
R9500 has achieved significantly improved it possible for every manufacturer to have milking systems includes significant en-
efficiency in automated milking. This has their system tested at the DLG test center hancements to the milking technology
now been proven by an independent test according to a defined process, transpar- module, the In-Liner Everything milking
conducted by the German Agricultural ency is ensured. process and the cleaning process.
Society (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Ge- For a practical simulation, DLG uses, Parallel processes at the end of the milk-
sellschaft – DLG). for example, artificial udders to measure ing procedure such as teat dipping with
different milk flows and quantities. Using simultaneous disinfection of the teat cup,
different calculation models (the so-called result in both reduced resource consump-
scenarios), it is thus possible to make fore- tion and reduced box times. In addition, the
casts on the consumption of dairy farms new separation mode allows farms to milk
depending on their farm management and those cows as a group whose milk would
herd structure. otherwise be discharged individually. As a
result, there is no need for intermediate
rinses or cleanings after each cow involved.
Compared to its previous model, the This significantly reduces water, detergent
DairyRobot R9500 single box requires up to and energy consumption and also saves
37% less energy, and consumption has also time. After all, the boxes are ready for use
been reduced by 35% in stand-by mode. again more quickly for the following cows.
The water consumption has been reduced In total, GEA was able to reduce the milking
by around 13%. times by 26 seconds, which means up to
How the DLG test works nine more milkings per day per box.
Two GEA DairyRobot R9500 including
A unique global standard was devel- a supply unit (center of picture) on the Second test for several
oped nine years ago. This was set out by DLG test stand boxes in the pipeline
the DLG, the Bavarian State Institute for Since up to four milking robots can be
Agriculture (Bayerische Landesanstalt Higher system availability, connected to each GEA supply unit, the
für Landwirtschaft – LfL), the agricultur- more milkings per day with results with a multi-box system are likely to
al magazine profi, and manufacturers of be even better in terms of resource savings.
milking technology (including GEA). With reduced operating costs GEA had therefore initiated an additional
this standard, automatic milking systems The improvements of the GEA Dairy- test for a two-box system at the DLG.
can be independently tested, and their con- Robot R9500 in energy and water con- The results are expected for May this year.
sumption can be compared amongst the sumption are due to extensive technical

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