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Three days on-farm in Northern Victoria
From 17th to the 19th of March, our team headed out to Northern Victoria for a three-day Roadshow, and the reception was everything we could have hoped for.
Visiting Melbourne University's Dookie Dairy, Benlock Jerseys, and Clydevale Holsteins, the team found a farming community that was ready to engage. Farmers drove from across the region, with many turning up to all three stops, keen to see automatic milking systems up close and ask the questions that actually matter.
It was a relaxed three-day event, but in the best way. The open days were intimate enough for real conversations, with the kind of purposeful and focused energy that you will get when people genuinely care.
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Across all three farms, the same themes kept surfacing. How do cows settle into a robotic milking routine? How many cows can one robot handle and does it change when you run several in one location? What does Lely's Horizon platform look like and what can the data really tell you about your herd health, feeding, and milking performance day to day?
Covering from feeding, milking performance, cow health, calf feeding through to the finer points of farm planning and system design, these were not surface-level questions, showing that our participants were not there for another product brochure. They came prepared, and the conversations reflected that.
The turnout and the quality of conversations across the three days reinforced something the Lely Australia team already believes, that is automatic milking is a real and viable option for many more Australian dairy farms, and more people are taking it seriously every season.
Getting out on-farm and meeting farmers where they are, that is what these Roadshows are all about. And if this one is anything to go by, there's plenty more good conversation still to come.
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