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| JR if you was to ask me about robots taking a hold in big dairies last year I would have laughed at the idea. However since the first of the year my thoughts have changed. I have over 3-4 big dairies taking the plunge to go robotic just within 50-60 miles of me. I would have never dreamed that it would happen, but the construction says different. I really thought the same they would run labor and parlor instead of robots. I'm really hoping S. Frisch would read this and confirm here that these barns are being built in southern Idaho in Cassia and Franklin counties. Some of these barns are going to climate controlled, simply amazing in my mind. I don't want to post any pics out of respect of the people that are building them.
I'm good friends with a person that is doing a lot of construction work on one of these dairies, I shake my head at costs I hear. Then all I can think of is how is that going to be profitable? There is already some big dairies in Canada that are robotic, but with these guys in Idaho, I'm fairly certain they are going to make it work. I look to see big percentage of dairies in Idaho go robots in ten years. Right now we are around 500 dairy farm family entities in Idaho. We have lost 5% of them since the first of the year, looking to lose another 5% by the end of the year. However cows numbers haven't changed. We have yet to see the blood bath coming.
I just can't believe somebody is financing these projects, maybe the dairies themselves. If that's the case I don't see them failing. As for good old side show Bob I'm with you, do you ever have thoughts about someone that should be taken behind the wood shed and worked over. He is a very good candidate for it. Some of the crap he has pulled in the last year is disgusting in my opinion. | |
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Dairy info I got in my email box today
