Products & Innovation

Revolutionary AMR sees first commercial installations

On opposite sides of the globe, two dairy farms are the first in the world to use DeLaval’s revolutionary automatic milking rotary, AMR™.

The first commercial AMR installation is in Tasmania, Australia. Three generations of the Dornauf family already had three dairy operations, milking more than 1,100 cows. Gala Farm, home of the new AMR, was their fourth. Automatic milking began in February 2012. In Germany, AMR is being installed at the Laproma farm in Schlossvippach. Although the two farms are different, both the Dornaufs and Dietrich Kirchner, managing director of Laproma, see the advantages of AMR in milking large herds.

“Our goal is sustainability and growth in milk production,” says Kirchner. Currently, 900 cows are milked at the farm and AMR will allow the herd to grow by another 720.”

Read the complete article in the Tetra Laval annual report (pdf)