Finland: Dairy farms cut labour costs with merger

The 2 Finnish farmers Juhani Korkiamäki and Ari Teppo merged their farms and built a new barn for 600 cows. With the robotised milking parlour, the 2 Finns were able to save €140,000 in labour costs. Five million euros – that is what Juhani Korkiamäki and Ari Teppo invested in their new company FinnMilk. For that, they got a new location, two stables for a total of 600 dairy cows, a calf barn with 40 crates and 80 calves in groups. The rotary parlour is fully robotised, there is a lar