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Communications and media
Webinars
- AMS Integrated Management Model: A decision-support system for automatic milking systems (Sep 2021)
- AMS Journey: preparation, start-up & optimisation (May 2019) (YouTube 1:02:44)
- AMS KPI Project: Monitoring commercial AMS farms (Nov 2017) (YouTube - 42:30)
- Automatic Milking Systems - Generalities (Oct 2015) (YouTube - 33:50)
- Automatic Milking Systems - Types of robots (Feb 2016) (YouTube - 34:15)
- Challenges and opportunities with nutritional management of cows milked with AMS (Dec 2020) (YouTube 1:09:58)
- Cow signals, robotic milking and five lactations (Oct 2016) (YouTube - 56:38)
- Disruptive Digital Technologies with the Power to Transform Agriculture (Mar 2017) (YouTube 52:21)
- Extension services supporting dairy farm using AMS - The Irish example (June 2020) (YouTube 59:56)
- Farmer attributes, profit and precision farming (Nov 2018)
- Farmers’ perceptions on implementing automatic milking systems in large US dairies (Nov 2021)
- Health disorders and behaviour of cows in AMS (Sep 2019) (YouTube 59:53)
- Managing heat stress on pasture-based AMS (Feb 2018) (YouTube - 41:24)
- Optimising Milking Management at a Quarter Level (Sep 2019) (YouTube - 59:32)
- Performance, Profit and Potential of Automatic Milking Systems (Aug 2020) (YouTube - 49:24)
- Precision Dairy Technologies - Opportunities and challenges (Apr 2016) (YouTube - 54:38)
- Robot milking and grazing from an Irish perspective (April 2019) (YouTube- 57:57)
- Robotic milking for sustainable dairy systems (Apr 2017) (YouTube - 52:43)
- Success factors for Robotic Milking on North American Dairies (Jun 2016) (YouTube 1:04:39)
- TechKISS - Making cow management technologies work (March 2020) (YouTube 1:03:54)
- Technologies on Australian and New Zealand dairy farms (Jul 2016) (YouTube - 24:54)
- The potential benefits of cow activity monitoring for herd health and reproduction (May 2017)
- Turning data into action. How are dairy farmers getting value from cow production data? (June 2017)
AMS Showcases
Social media
Videos
- How do AMS enable vets & what they change in routine of diseases & management? By Nicolas Lyons at ANZCVS Science Week 2019 (YouTube - 36:07)
- Interview of Trevor Mills on Automated Milking Systems (YouTube - 16:59)
- Milking Edge: training and extension program for automatic milking in Australia (YouTube - 2:39)
- More from Less - the investment in robotic milking by Bev and Gary Carpenter at the 2016 DRF Symposium (MP4, 944 MB)
- Pasture based Automated Milking Systems (YouTube - 3:18)
- Robotic milking systems (YouTube - 2:33)
- Women in Dairy; AMS Discussion Panel (Passcode: E61Kf=mN)
DPI Dairy Newsletter
Previous editions
Podcasts
Robotic Milking Systems
| Download MP3 | Details | Transcript |
|---|---|---|
| Interview with Bill Crosby 2 | (MP3, 15.1 MB) | (RTF, 61.2KB) |
| Interview with Garry Carpenter 3 | (MP3, 12.4 MB) | (RTF, 58.5KB) |
| Interview with Trevor Mills | (MP3, 15.5 MB) | (RTF, 56.6KB) |
| Robotic Milking Systems | (MP3, 7.2 MB) | (RTF, 57.3KB) |
Business Management
| Download MP3 | Details | Transcript |
|---|---|---|
| Cashflow vs profit | (MP3, 2.6 MB) | (HTML) |
| Energy efficiency | (MP3, 2.4 MB) | (HTML) |
| Financial benefits of early carlving heifers with Vicki Smart | (MP3, 3.4 MB) | (RTF, 12KB) |
| Sustainable business growth | (MP3, 1.7 MB) | (HTML) |
Feed Base Management
| Download MP3 | Details | Transcript |
|---|---|---|
| Brassicas with Bill Fulkerson | (MP3, 7.3 MB) | (RTF, 18.4KB) |
| Complimentary cropping systems with Bill Fulkerson | (MP3, 7.0 MB) | (RTF, 19.2KB) |
| Complimentary forage systems with Yani Garcia | (MP3, 10.9 MB) | (RTF, 34.8KB) |
| Feed pad design | (MP3, 3.2 MB) | (HTML) |
| Feeding cows after the floods with Steve Little | (MP3, 7.1 MB) | (RTF, 18.9KB) |
| Feeding weather damaged grain to dairy cattle | (MP3, 9.3 MB) | (RTF, 22.4KB) |
| Low milk fat | (MP3, 3.2 MB) | (HTML) |
| Maize cost calculator | (MP3, 4.6 MB) | (RTF, 43.3KB) |
| Managing kikuyu pastures with Bill Fulkerson | (MP3, 6.3 MB) | (RTF, 14KB) |
| Managing the autumn feed gap - Bill Fulkerson | (MP3, 4.5 MB) | (RTF, 11.7KB) |
| Pasture recovery after the floods with Neil Griffiths | (MP3, 7.4 MB) | (RTF, 16.8KB) |
| Protein levels in wheat as a feed grain podcast | (MP3, 5.5 MB) | (RTF, 16.2KB) |
| Ryegrass check program | (MP3, 7.4 MB) | (RTF, 46.9KB) |
