A more enjoyable and efficient life
During our interview, Luke explains the positive impact the robots have had to his personal life.
"Currently with the milking robots in, I (Luke) can have breakfast with the kids before they get on the bus... I probably get an hour's more sleep everyday now which over a week is pretty much another day's sleep."
"Also I've started running again a bit more, which has been really good. There's more time where I can get away and just go, 'Tomorrow morning I'm gonna go for a run,' and I can go and do a park run at seven or eight in the morning cause I don't have to be in the dairy. I actually even did a half marathon earlier in the year (2023), which was something I'd wanted to do for a long time."
Data from the Lely Horizon management system
"The daily information and data that you get through the robots is quite amazing. There's so many different reports that you can create and look at. I always look at that health report first. I have the highest cell count changes, I have rumination changes, inactive cows, I have them all come up in that one report so I can just open one report and see any cows that may need attention, or you can structure that you can have whatever you want into that one report. And I think that's a really, really cool feature."
"With the extra information that we receive daily on individual cows, we're able to feed them individually, feed them to requirements, and we're actually saving money on grain because we're actually using less over the whole herd, but using it more strategically."