DeLaval recently sold its 10,000th Voluntary Milking System (VMS) to Glenirvine Farms in Fergus, Ontario, Canada.
As a pioneer of automated milking systems, the company obtained its first voluntary milking patent in 1982, and through a subsidiary company installed on-farm milking robots in Holland in the early 1990s. The company’s first generation VMS units were sold in 1998.Features include accurate quarter milking, an easy-to-use touchscreen, and full system integration and upgradeability possibilities.
Glenirvine Farms will install the 10,000th VMS at its new facility early next year. The owners, Doug and Lynda Jefferson and Andrew and Amanda Den Haan, have been milking their 50-cow herd with a double-4 DeLaval herringbone parlor for the past 40 years.
“The flexibility offered with VMS will better accommodate our families and hobbies away from the barn,” says Amanda Den Haan. “We don't want to spend less time in the barn; just be more efficient with our time.” PD
—From DeLaval news release
