Published 2023-04-01
“…(Research purpose) To conduct historical, analytical and feasibility studies of various options for automating cow milking on dairy farms, to determine the overall capital intensity of various options for the transition from manual to automated and robotic cow milking technologies, as well as the capital intensity of individual transition stages such as mechanized bucket milking, pipeline milking, automated milking in milking parlors, robotic milking in individual
boxes and milking parlors. (Materials and methods) The paper analyzes the
revolutionary transitions associated with a drastic change in technology, a change in the way of keeping cows and a change in the organizational and economic forms of operations; the modernization transitions, those with a complete or partial replacement of equipment but without a fundamental change in technology; and the reverse transfer transitions - a forced return to the previous more economical technology. …”
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