Ninth deliverable out now

The ninth deliverable of the project is the second one of work package 1, 'Socio-economic aspects of automatic milking'. Its title is 'Motivation and characteristics of farmers investing in automatic milking systems'.

This deliverable (D2) summarizes the results of a survey of 107 automatic milking users carried out in Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands to study the personal characteristics and motivation of dairy farmers to install an automatic milking system. The results show that two third of those interviewed state social reasons (such as increased labour flexibility, improved social life and health concerns) for investing in an AM-system. It is however highlighted that farmers with higher education and who have a slight concern for the opinion of others are more likely to invest in an AM-system for economic rather than social reasons.

Message date: February 12, 2003