Posts by Vicky Brewin
The Brewster family, Wester Borland Farm
The Brewster family milked cows many years ago and having spent a generation farming beef cattle son Alan was keen to move back into dairying. In 2015 Alan and his father, Willie, bought 230 cows and invested in a 16/32 EuroClass 800 herringbone swingover parlour with Metatron P21 milk metres and the Apollo automatic dipping…
Read MoreSequential bailing milking
Parlours with sequential stalling, or bailing, are attracting increasing interest from producers. GEA Farm Technologies has installed two in the UK and one in Ireland. Tom Steel is getting the benefit of faster milking and the ability of the Dairyplan Herd Management system to control in parlour feeding following the installation of a 26/52 sequential…
Read MoreNew 30/30 rapid exit improves milking times and cow management
Reduced milking times, improved cow management and hygiene are just some of the benefits father and son Gilmour and Kevin Lawrie have seen in the first four months since installing a GEA Farm Technologies 30/30 Global 90i rapid exit parlour with feeding. A new 120ft by 50ft building at Sandyford Farm, Monkton, Ayr, incorporates the…
Read MoreThe IQ Cluster
Boost your IQ with the world’s first four way milking cluster. The IQ Cluster from GEA Farm Technologies, collects milk in four separate guide chambers. This allows each individual teat to be milked separately – effectively isolating each quarter, helping prevent intra-mammary cross-infection, improving udder health, operator efficiency, milk quality, yield and milking time. The innovative…
Read MoreLove of dairying keeps family milking for fifth generation
“The parlour is working very well indeed, we love it. It’s excellent to work in, the cow flow is great, the P21 display meters tell us everything we need to know and milk quality has improved.”
Andrew Waddell
