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DAIRY SPECIAL: How is one Cornish dairy farm adapting to robots?

The installation of robots in 2019 paved the way for David Luxton and his family to realise system benefits throughout the farm by managing fixed costs more efficiently and focussing on generating more milk with lower operating costs. Farmers Guardian reports.

Katie Jones
Editor, Farmers Guardian and Dairy Farmer
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DAIRY SPECIAL: How is one Cornish dairy farm adapting to robots?

Newlands 51AVÊÓÆµis owned by Robert and Elizabeth Haworth. Their daughter Sarah manages the farm with her partner David Luxton, and in 2019 the farm chose to switch from milking through a herringbone parlour...

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