The Astronaut, assessed in our 7/2019 issue, showed the single-box robot to be the most economical milking system we’d tested with the DLG. But there was one result that made us think …

Higher energy prices have an instant impact on dairy farmers. But, as one, do you know how much electricity you’re using for milking? To help all dairy farmers get a better grasp of how much water and electricity milking robots demand, the DLG, together with a number of automatic milking system firms, the Bavarian Institute for Agriculture as well as profi, devised a test to answer this question.