Since the first automatic milking system installation in a Dutch farm in 1992, milking robots have made their way reaching over 18,000 units in 2012. A factor that has popularized robotic milking is that the majority of ...

In automatic milking systems milking process time is defined as duration from the instant when the identified animal within the milking box has been accepted for milking until the instant for release of the animal from the ...

The implementation in the current EU milk quota system over the period 1992-2015, accompanied the whole process of restructuring of this sector in Galicia. In this paper the results of a comparative analysis of the productive ...