Posts Tagged ‘IQ Cluster’
New 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 MoreNew swingover milking parlour at Nether Craig Farm
Milking 100 cows in Gatehead, Craig Cochrane’s family at Nether Craig Farm had spent the past 19 years milking in an Alfa Laval jar parlour. Having moved from milking Friesians to Holsteins the cows were getting too large for the parlour and so they decided it was time to upgrade. Deciding on a 14/28 Euroclass…
Read MoreNew 30/30 rapid exit milking parlour at Sandyford Farm
Recently joining the herd is Gilmour and Kevin Lawrie of Sandyford Farm, who said: “We are delighted with our recently installed GEA 30/30 rapid exit parlour with feeding.  The new parlour has reduced our milking time and we are really pleased with the IQ Clusters which have helped reduce cell counts. “We are very impressed…
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
