mixed fleet
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What are the current start up costs for a robot on a green field site for say 60-70 cows. paddocks/roads/sheds are already in place. So it would just be the milking facilities. 100k for the purchase of 60-70 cows and would another 100k build what I need, would use second hand robot if these are reliable. Would you run 70 cows on 50ac for milking, would be stocking at 1.4cows ac on dry ground. just thinking as its as good as anytime to be pricing up if a system would run or not.
As someone said to me yesterday a cow doing 25l @24c a litre is €5 a day output, this figure even in bad dairy times unheard of in beef, even during its best pay days.
As regards how many cows you will milk on 50ac , it depends more on how much grass can you grow . I.E. quality of the land ph,fertility status ,when was it reseeded,etc.
The building to house the robot is harmless enough. The dairy and milk tank, power supply, water, all extra cost.