EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED WHEN YOU MILK WITH ROBOTS

Paul Windemuller and I visited about robotic milking on his Agculture podcast. We covered everything from feeding to fetching, and from barn design to cow comfort. Paul’s comment about his own experience summed up the episode, “I’ve been fascinated by it (robotic milking) because you really see how interconnected everything is on a dairy farm, and with a dairy cow, when you milk with robots.” In other words, it’s important to use a system approach to problem solving, rather than a linear approach. A linear approach looks at cause and effect of each variable independently. A systems approach recognizes the interdependence of all the variables.

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