World first: GEA Technology launches automatic rotary milking

The world’s first fully automatic external rotary parlour has been officially launched at a farm in south-east Germany. The unique machine is called the DairyProQ, which has an individual robotic arm placed at every stall in the parlour. On the aforementioned farm in Germany the rotary parlour has 40 points which can milk the herd of 400 cows in just two hours. There are 4 prototypes of the machine are running; 2 in Germany and 2 in Canada.  Each stall unit on the DairyProQ rotary has it