GEA drives the automation and digital transformation on dairy farms

GEA, one of the world’s leading milking and feeding specialist is driving digital change. The technology group sees the future of the dairy farming as a digital ecosystem of automatic and conventional milking systems supporting the trends towards consolidation of dairy farms with larger herds as well as the transformation to automation of production. A completely new digital platform brings together herd and farm management under one user-friendly, intuitive user interface. Innovative services and a worldwide network of Solution Centers promote herd health and operational efficiency. With the idea of the digital farm, GEA is installing a digital support system whose software solutions and services proactively help today's farmer on the road to a profitable and sustainable milk production.

The trend towards fewer farms with more cows and higher production per cow continues worldwide. At the same time, farmers are focusing on automation and in some cases investments in automatic milking robots can be as high as 90 percent in some countries. GEA has been setting new standards in automatic milking since the introduction of the fully automated milking rotary DairyProQ. With the first Monobox, the unique In-Liner Everything milking process has also been transferred to the single box. Today, the latest further development leaves the plant operator free to choose: With free animal traffic or fixed milking times, the DairyRobot R9500 proves its worth as a single box on small and family farms or as a multibox system for farms with larger herds. In the field of conventional milking, the flagship milking carousel from the GEA DairyRotor product line, the GEA T8900 (US version T8800), continues to provide farmers worldwide with the most robust, efficient and productive rotary milking experience available today.