News and press releases

Maassluis, 24 June 2025 – Today at the Future Farm Days, Lely proudly launched three exciting solutions. Both Astronaut A5 Next and Astronaut Max build on the success of the Astronaut A5 milking robot. Next to that, Lely Hub was introduced: an essential data safety device for farmers. These solutions are designed to meet the evolving needs of modern dairy farming, with a strong focus on improving animal welfare and farmer prosperity. Lely is proud to take the next step towards the realisation of the Farm of the Future. 

Today, Lely presents its annual results for 2024: with a total sales of €857 million (2023: €888 million), in line with the more difficult dairy market.  

Maassluis, September 10, 2024 - Today, Lely introduces Zeta: a revolutionary concept based on a strong vision for the future. By using cameras, LED lighting, Artificial Intelligence and smart algorithms, Zeta enables farmers to collect even more data to further improve animal welfare and farmer prosperity. With this visionary concept, Lely opens a new era in monitoring cows and barn operation.

Maassluis, September 10, 2024 – Lely launches the revolutionary Juno Max: the first truly autonomous feed pusher for large-scale farms that takes feed pushing to the next level. Juno Max is designed to push feed quickly, smartly and efficiently, in multiple barns and feeding alleys. The newly designed free navigation system and obstacle detection ensure it can always accomplish its task: efficient feed pushing for large-scale farms.

Maassluis, September 10, 2024 - Today Lely proudly introduces the sand flush, a unique accessory that makes Discovery Collector manure robots suitable for barns with sand bedding. As sand is a commonly used bedding material in barns worldwide, this is the ultimate addition to the Discovery portfolio. With the introduction of the sand flush, Lely now offers a manure solution for almost every dairy farm.

Maassluis, September 10, 2024 – During today’s Yellow Revolution event, Lely introduced three new products for dairy farms. All products seamlessly connect with the company’s vision on the Farm of the Future as launched last year. The new products – a manure robot that is also applicable for barns with sand bedding, an automatic feed pusher for large-scale farms and a concept for smart monitoring of cows and barn operation – are the newest answers to the challenges that dairy farmers worldwide face. All products focus on further improving animal welfare, lowering the environmental impact of dairy farming and improving farmer prosperity.

Merchtem, 29 August 2024 - Today the first Lely Orbiter in Belgium was launched at Bart Vanderstraeten and Marijke d'Hertefelt in Merchtem, Flemish Brabant. This makes them the first dairy farm outside the Netherlands to produce high-quality dairy products on the farm with the Orbiter. The Koeweidehof's fresh dairy will be marketed exclusively to the Belgian market under the ‘Oh!Lait’ label, which is also launched today.

Today Lely announced that its CFO Ronald Eikelenboom will pursue his career outside of Lely after ten years at the Dutch robotics manufacturer.

The PPS 'Reinventing Circular Dairy Farming' was launched today. In this Public Private Partnership, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature, Wageningen Livestock Research, Slootsmid, Nederlands Centrum Mestverwaarding, Hanskamp and Lely are working together. The pilot project aims to research how urine can be used as a fertiliser substitute. Using urine as a manure stream can help improve the circularity of a dairy farm.