Farm
DeLaval sold its 10,000th VMS milking robot, to Glenirvine Farms in Ontario, Canada.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported · Sets Milking robots's stage
What the source says
“DeLaval recently sold its 10,000th Voluntary Milking System VMS to Glenirvine Farms in Fergus, Ontario.”
What it means
Milking robots, from Lely, DeLaval, is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: Our sources report it working without human help.
More on Milking robots
- Lely now makes only dairy farm robots, and about 135,000 of its robots are in use around the world.
- In 2021, 13 percent of US dairy farms with 150 to 499 cows used robotic milking.
- US government data show robots produced 6 percent of US milk in 2021, up from 4 percent in 2016.
- Swedish company DeLaval sold its first VMS (Voluntary Milking System) robots in 1998.
- A prototype of Lely's Astronaut milking robot milked its first cow in summer 1992.