The facility will conduct research of the highest quality in animal welfare, animal health, climate-smart animal management and sustainable food production. DeLaval has won the bid to supply the Swedish Livestock Research Centre with equipment.
“SLU in Sweden will have Europe’s most modern facility for teaching and research on cows, pigs and poultry. SLU has a long tradition of providing important research for our business on how to improve animal welfare and dairy production; we believe that the new Swedish Livestock Research Centre will even further enhance the quality of the research that is done today”, says Joakim Rosengren President & CEO, DeLaval.
The new centre will work with both the DeLaval Voluntary Milking System (VMS) and the DeLaval Automatic Milking Rotary (AMR™) system in addition to a wide range of DeLaval products and solutions that are integral to the DeLaval Smart Farming concept. The DeLaval Smart Farming strategy aims at influencing and shaping the future of dairy farming today; it is about innovative - and not least integrated - decision tools and automation that support farm management. Smart Farming aims to accelerate the transition from milking management to global farm profitability management by harnessing emerging decision tools and automation technologies for better quality milk and profits.
The DeLaval AMR™ was developed with three key customer benefits in mind; profitability, farm management, and flexibility. The main components of the AMRTM are teat preparation, attachment and teat-spray modules, two touch screens to operate the system, automatic cup back flush, automatic floor cleaning, and safety systems. The first AMRTM systems will have up to 90 cow/hour capacity, depending on the number of robots installed. As many as five robots can be attached to the rotary. The system will be fully operational at Lövsta in November.
“We have a long standing cooperation with DeLaval on numerous research projects. In the bidding process to supply equipment to the Swedish Livestock Research Centre DeLaval offered the most competitive solution” says Kerstin Svennersten Sjaunja, dean at SLU’s Faculty for Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science.
The opening ceremony will be in the late spring of 2012.
