Data key to boosting herd output

摘要

Mick Eccles farms with his parents, Anthony and Christine, and brother Christopher, on 400 acres in Pres-ton, Lancashire, where they run the 150-cow Sudells pedigree Holstein herd, along with a store finishing enterprise and 100-ewe flockNick graduated with a first-class degree in civil engineering in 2012, before returning home to farm. Committed to dairying, Nick, along with his family, agreed it was time to change the 25-year-old herringbone parlour for three Lely Astronaut A5 milking robots, which were installed in a greenfield site unit designed to provide high cow welfare for up to 180 milking animals.