Meade Farm has two Lely milking robots, an automatic calf feeder, a 24-hour automatic slat scraper, a zero-grazer that enables them to harvest grass from fields and feed cows indoors, and calving camera systems
Robert Devlin, general manager of Meade Farm, with the automatic calf feeder and the milking robot. Photos: Gerry Mooney
Technology has “revolutionised” the day-to-day management of Meade Dairy Farm in Co Meath, making tasks like milking, calf rearing, and heat detection as “simple as a click of a button”.
The enterprise at Castletown, comprising 135 pedigree Fleckvieh cows, is operated on the wider 1,200ac Meade Farm, which is owned and run by Philip Snr, Philip Jnr, Patrick and Eleanor Meade.
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