Largest robotic dairy farm in Chile

Work is well under way in Chile on what will be the world’s largest robotic milking dairy farm home to 6,500 cows. A total of 16 DeLaval VMS robots have been fitted to date and there are 48 more to go under the agreement with Fundo El Risquillo farm. The farm, owned by Agrícola Ancali and part of the Bethia Group, has seen the average yield of the 920 cows going through the first robots increase by 10% to 45.2 litres per cow per day. “The benefits have been remarkable,” says Pedro Heller