Cost of a Milking parlour vs robotic milking

hopgirl

Hi thank you for taking your time to read and answering my questions. I had to pick a product in college to sell so I picked the lely astronaut robotic milker but I need to know how much a milking parlour cost.
I wanted to see how much it cost to build a 10 unit milking parlour? From building the shed, to the milking equipment, tank and the yard. Also if there is a shed in place how much would it cost to change it to a milking parlour. How much is the maintenance per year roughly?

I know the lely astronaut costs €130,000 to €200,000 and roughly €12,000 a year maintenance. Be for 70 to 80 cows.
I appreciate all the help ye can give.

frazzledhome

Check out Irish Grassland Twitter ac, lots of info there

ellewood

frazzledhome wrote: »

Check out Irish Grassland Twitter ac, lots of info there

Some1 posted a few weeks back comparing 3 set ups

1 robotic milking
2 standard parlor
3 top spec parlor

If any else can post link?

If I remember when set up costs, maintenance costs and labour costs were factored in the standard parlor came out on top followed by robot and then top spec parlor.

Timmaay

ellewood wrote: »

Some1 posted a few weeks back comparing 3 set ups

1 robotic milking
2 standard parlor
3 top spec parlor

If any else can post link?

If I remember when set up costs, maintenance costs and labour costs were factored in the standard parlor came out on top followed by robot and then top spec parlor.

It was a Nuffield scholar, by Sean odonnell maybe? The general conclusion of most studies are that from a pure economic point of view robots just don't cut it yet, they only really suit the lad who has top class grassland management , low borrowings (aka inheriterated his farm ha), and really isn't fond of milking!

Carrigogunnell

ellewood wrote: »

Some1 posted a few weeks back comparing 3 set ups

1 robotic milking
2 standard parlor
3 top spec parlor

If any else can post link?

If I remember when set up costs, maintenance costs and labour costs were factored in the standard parlor came out on top followed by robot and then top spec parlor.

It was in the journal a couple of weeks ago reckoned that it cost about 8 grand more to milk the same amount of cows on robot conclusion was robot is for lifestyle and not to make extra profit.

hopgirl

Thank you so much I have checked them out.
I suppose from the outside they look good in away it saves time for the farmer so they could hold down a part-time job or for a young farmer that likes their gadgets. As I grew up on a dairy farm, was always looking at the clock and be back in time. They gave it up a few years ago.

After listening to Sean O'Donnell talking about it saying very hard to get hard evidence on robots. In one article I read that it saves energy but then read somewhere else that it uses more energy than a milking parlour.