Key Performance Indicators for Milking Robots

So in terms of yield, what we're seeing in robots in the U.S., I think it's always important to point out that our national average is about 5,000 pounds per robot.

I think that the elite herds are closer to six.

And I did a presentation a couple of years ago on farms that are 7,000 pounds per robot because that was a marketing claim and kind of wanted to know how realistic is that marketing claim.

And At the time I made the comparison, and maybe a baseball analogy isn't quite right for this international audience, but I compared 7,000 pounds per robot to pitching a no-hitter in baseball, something that certainly can be done and has been done, but it is a real high achievement.

Sorry, you talk about 7,000 pounds is 3,500 pounds.

Kilos roughly, isn't it, of milk per day, which is a huge amount for a robot.

The figures I tend to use for my consultancy, and it's really a starting point, not the end point, is to aim for 2,000 kilos per day for a single box.

We also have double boxes in our market, the Beaumatic double box.

So depending on what area I'm in and if there's a Beaumatic dealer available, then we can start talking a double box.

So as a comparison, it would be about 3,500 kilos per day in a double box.

Now, as you said, people are achieving more than this, but it's a good starting point.

So I know some BOMATIC boxes I've seen doing 4,200 a day.

I've seen single boxes doing 3,000 kilos a day.

But for me, for my financials, just to have a starting point, That's where I aim at.

And then I explain year two, year three.

Quite often we can do better than that, but then that's going to depend on all the other things we're going to be talking about.

Real important,

I think, that you talked about numbers that you're using for budgeting and numbers that people might dream about or realistically hope to achieve.

I think that 7,000 pound number, to just go through the math on that, That is 70 cows making 100 pounds a day, and that's probably going to require about 180 milkings to get that done.

And all of those are really elite numbers, and there's no wiggle room on any of them.

If you're only milking 65 cows, then they've got to produce more per cow.

If you're only making 90 pounds, you've got to get more cows through that robot.

There's just not a lot of wiggle room on that top end, and And important to be realistic in the numbers we're budgeting

with.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

So in terms of yield, what we're seeing in robots in the U.S., I think it's always important to point out that our national average is about 5,000 pounds per robot.

I think that the elite herds are closer to six.

And I did a presentation a couple of years ago on farms that are 7,000 pounds per robot because that was a marketing claim and kind of wanted to know how realistic is that marketing claim.

And At the time I made the comparison, and maybe a baseball analogy isn't quite right for this international audience, but I compared 7,000 pounds per robot to pitching a no-hitter in baseball, something that certainly can be done and has been done, but it is a real high achievement.

Sorry, you talk about 7,000 pounds is 3,500 pounds.

Kilos roughly, isn't it, of milk per day, which is a huge amount for a robot.

The figures I tend to use for my consultancy, and it's really a starting point, not the end point, is to aim for 2,000 kilos per day for a single box.

We also have double boxes in our market, the Beaumatic double box.

So depending on what area I'm in and if there's a Beaumatic dealer available, then we can start talking a double box.

So as a comparison, it would be about 3,500 kilos per day in a double box.

Now, as you said, people are achieving more than this, but it's a good starting point.

So I know some BOMATIC boxes I've seen doing 4,200 a day.

I've seen single boxes doing 3,000 kilos a day.

But for me, for my financials, just to have a starting point, That's where I aim at.

And then I explain year two, year three.

Quite often we can do better than that, but then that's going to depend on all the other things we're going to be talking about.

Real important,

I think, that you talked about numbers that you're using for budgeting and numbers that people might dream about or realistically hope to achieve.

I think that 7,000 pound number, to just go through the math on that, That is 70 cows making 100 pounds a day, and that's probably going to require about 180 milkings to get that done.

And all of those are really elite numbers, and there's no wiggle room on any of them.

If you're only milking 65 cows, then they've got to produce more per cow.

If you're only making 90 pounds, you've got to get more cows through that robot.

There's just not a lot of wiggle room on that top end, and And important to be realistic in the numbers we're budgeting

with.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.