Lely Industries N.V.

Hi, my name is Dan Myhock and I want to welcome you to Dairy Downloaded.

In this episode, we're going to hear about the process behind Lely certified pre-owned robots from reconditioning and testing to financing and support.

But first, what does that investment actually look like on the farm? Sarah Sacker and Joshua Schenck milk around 100 cows in Monroe, Wisconsin.

On their farm, certified, pre-owned robots offered a practical, cost-effective solution to labor challenges.

And when you're spending a lot of money on something that is going to milk your cows 24 hours a day, you want to make sure that you're getting something that's already been gone through professionally and has a warranty with it.

We have a lot of confidence in the reconditioned A4s.

We kind of feel like you're getting a hybrid new used robot because a lot of the important things gotten replaced, they've gotten looked over and we still can have them serviced like new A5s with our Lely Center.

Overall, we are getting more milk per cow.

So, um, right, and in 2000, uh, we-- No, in 2000, we did it, and in 2016, we built a new barn, also with two robots, and we bought some extra land.

And, uh, so, and right now we're milking 250 cows with, uh, four milking robots, Lely, and this is the second generation we are, uh, we now, we have now.

Um, the, it's very good soil.

It's the northern part of the Netherlands.

So that's quite an, uh, profitable, uh, development.

But he, he do that by himself with the program.

He, and he cooperates a little with Lely and, uh, AI, and yeah.

I'm not ex- expert, but it's a bit what's ...

We do have four robots on our farm.

They are the Lely robots.

We milk 250 cows, and on average, a cow on our farm produces right now 105 pounds, which is astonishing.

So we've had Lely robots for 12 years now, and we also have other modern technologies such as a feed pusher, and then also temperature-controlled fans as well.

Well, I appreciate your introduction, and we'll talk a little bit more of course about what you do on the daily and all, because, well, we're gonna be talking a lot about that, as it's a Portrait of a Modern Dairy is a new storytelling initiative that's been launched by the Dairy Checkoff to, to help, well, as you can tell, us probably tell the good word, uh, of dairy farming.

So what all has it entailed so far? What is its message? What are you trying to tell folks? And who's the audience? Who are you trying to tell these messages to?

Is there anything that, that maybe has stood out to you i- in this process of, of your own growth?

I guess just seeing, like, the other ladies and how modern technology is different on their farms.

In 2020, I think we didn't really have much technology before that short of, say, auto steer on a tractor.

And we put in three Lely A5 milking robots.

We put in a Lely Vector at the exact same time, which is the automatic feeding system.

So the A5s milk the cows.

The Vector feeds the cows.

However...

Lely have just come out with a new technology.

I don't think it's out yet.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

It's basically like our Fitbit cow collars, but on steroids.

I wonder if they're

using Lely.

Could be