With the feeding routine taking up four hours per day at Stublach Farm to feed its 270 cows and similar number of youngstock with a 20m³ Keenan, most farms in a similar situation would have simply gone to a much larger capacity tub machine to speed up the operation
Lack of skilled labour has been a key driver for farmers investing in robotic milking systems, and this could also be the reason why automated feeding will become more commonplace. Anthony Oakes is the first UK user of the latest generation of Lely Vector
