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231-238 M. Gaworski,, A. Leola and J. Priekulis
Comparative analysis on effectiveness of AMS use on an example of three European countries
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Comparative analysis on effectiveness of AMS use on an example of three European countries

M. Gaworski¹,*, A. Leola² and J. Priekulis³

¹Department of Production Management and Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska str. 164, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland; *Correspondence: marek_gaworski@sggw.pl 2Institute of Technology, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 56, EE51014 Tartu, Estonia 3Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Latvia University of Agriculture, J.Čakstes bulv. 5, LV-3001 Jelgava, Latvia Abstract. Automatic milking system (AMS) belongs to the increasingly significant solutions spread in modern dairy farm production in many countries. But among countries, agriculture and economic conditions can differ widely. As a result there are premises to put the thesis that conditions as well as effectiveness of the AMS use can differ between countries. In order to prove the thesis we have analysed data coming from three European countries. The methodological approach included comparison of data covering technical, biological, economic and technological potential in general and in the selected AMS farms, to propose new indices to express conditions of AMS implementation and their effectiveness in the countries. We would like to conclude that there are considerable differences in effectiveness of AMS use between countries and farms, so it is valuable to exchange experiences resulting from the presented analyses. Key words: AMS, annual milk yield, effectiveness, European countries.INTRODUCTION

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Automatic milking system (AMS), named also by the acronyms VMS (voluntarymilking system) and RMS (robotic milking system) constitutes one of the most important solutions demonstrating progress in the modern dairy farm production in the world.The first automatic milking systems (AMS) were installed in the Netherlands in1992. The main reason for investing in an AMS was possible labour savings. Many experiences resulting from AMS management over the last two decades show that there are premises to develop research studies covering technical, technological, health, quality, social, welfare and economic problems. Analyses covering benefits vs. risk as well as some conditions of AMS implementation constitute an important step to recognise additional ways leading to more effective use of automatic milking systems.One of the factors referring to AMS effectiveness is the increased milk yieldresulting from more frequent milking. When milking frequency increased from two times to three times per day an increase from 6 to 25% in complete lactations was231

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