This document summarizes Lely's experience with automated milking over 25+ years. It highlights 10 key points about Lely's robotic milking systems: 1) They allow cows freedom and flexibility to milk, eat, and rest on their own schedule; 2) They provide producers with 24/7 milking capabilities and more flexibility; 3) They can reduce time spent milking and provide more flexibility for other activities; 4) Cows experience more milkings per day in a Lely barn; 5) Lely provides farm management support to help smoothly transition cows to the robots; 6) Cows thrive in new and retrofitted barns that maintain familiar environments; 7) Comfortable cows with free-cow traffic produce

1. The way to dairy.TM
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2. #1. Life’s a beach for the producer
and cows.

3. Free-cow traffic barns are very calm
and allow cows to follow their natural rhythm
to milk, eat and rest when they want.

4. #2. It’s a new management style for
the producer.
24/7Milking Capabilities MORE Flexibility

5. #3. Milking the Lely way can reduce
time spent milking, providing more
flexibility for other activities.

6. #4. Cows will experience:
PER COW
2.6 – 3.2
MILKINGS
EVERY DAY
and...

7. 1 Lely Astronaut
CAPACITY IS APPROXIMATELY 60 COWS
160-190
ATTACHES OVER
...in a Lely dairy barn:
24/hrPERIOD

8. #5. Pre-planning with FMS staff
will enhance the first week of
start-up to more smoothly get
cows to the robot.
QUICK LEARNERSFMS START-UP PLAN
(FARM MANAGEMENT
SUPPORT)

9. #6. Cows thrive in new barns and
retrofited barn configurations.

10. Existing facilities are generally a
smoother transition.
WHY?
Milking is the only
action changed
Eat same place
Lay down same place

11. There are a variety of ways to
configure milking robots to suit your
goals. Here are a few examples.
L-SHAPE TOLL BOOTH HEAD TO HEAD

12. #7. Comfortable Cows = More Milk.
Free-Cow Traffic and...
L E LY F R E E
C O
W
TRAFFIC
PER COW PER DAY MORE*
THAN GUIDED OR FORCED-COW TRAFFIC.
*University of Wisconsin research free-cow traffic was completed by Marlene Tremblay, Justin Hess, Brock Christenson, Kolby McIntyre, Ben Smink, Arjen van der Kamp, Lisanne de Jong and Dorte
Dopfer, and published in the Journal of Dairy Science 2016.
2.2 lbs
MILK

13. No more waiting in a crowded
space, 24/7 ability to choose
to walk, to eat or to be milked
on an individual basis,
on her time.

14. #8. Innovations for freedom
and flexibility.
NO I-FLOW I-FLOW
Flexibility in the set-up
of your barn
I-flow box design
eliminates
unnecessary cow stress
Swift teat detection

15. #9. From the office to the herd...

16. Utilize T4C from your office.
LELY T4C FEATURES
Herd progress
Pen progress
Individual progress
Set cows for automatic routing

17. Lely T4C
Keeps you and your herd connected!
Utilize T4C InHerd in the palm of your hand to set
future cow handling, assign and check employee
tasks, review attention cows and more.
Cow and herd performance instantly
wherever you are
Take action in the barn
Provides insight from mobile device

18. #10. We know robots and cows.
We know how to bring the two
together to help in your success.
Lely is the only robotic milking and feeding
brand with more than 2,700 milking robots
installed*
and built in Pella, Iowa, USA.
We have #LelyKnowHow
to support robot dairies!
More than 600 certified support
technicians and farm management
service support advisors.
We’ve been making farmers’ lives
easier with innovative solutions
and tailored services since 1948.
Each day more than 1,500,000 cows
walk through a Lely milking robot
across the globe. *Based on robotic milking units across Canada and USA April 2017.

19. Talk to your local Lely Center today!
1-888-245-4684
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