Deliverable D27 is out

D27 is the third and final deliverable from work package 10 'Automatic milking and grazing'. It is the 'Report with grazing strategies and their effect on animal welfare and system performance'.
Recent research on how to combine automatic milking (AM) systems and grazing is presented with the objective to summarise the results obtained in an EU-project and discuss these results in relation to present knowledge in the field. Experiments, conducted in Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark, are reported. In conclusion automatic milking can successfully be combined with pasture and grazing. High levels of supplementary feeding did not lead to higher production when pasture was available in sufficient amounts but supplementation can be used strategically as a management tool to obtain smooth cow traffic.

Message date: May 7, 2004