Cost savings
At Melk-drive Genderen it has been proven, that there is less dung remaining in the milking robot after the installation of a Milk & Go apparatus. Consequently you can adjust the floor cleaning, so that it takes place after 9 milkings instead of after every 3 milkings.
- Open the basic screen of your VMSclient program on your pc
- Click on ‘units’ in the menu list on the left and then double click op VMS milking station
- Now you have the choice from different headings, click on ‘cleaning’.
- Put a tick for ‘Floor cleaning after every’
- For ‘milking’ , set after how many milkings the floor has to be cleaned, e.g. 9 (enter as desired).
This resulted in saving Melk-drive Genderen a considerable amount on expenses for water- and manure removal. Assuming that:
- Robot capacity of 150 milkings per day
- Floor cleaning on 7 sec, 1 litre water per second = 7 liters per floor cleaning
- € 10 removal costs per m³
- € 0,85 per m³ water
Without Milk & Go
150 milkings per dag / 3 floor cleanings = 50 floor cleanings per day
50 floor cleanings per day * 7 liters * 365 days per year = 127,75 m³ water
127,75 m³ water * € 10 removal costs per m³ = € 1.277,50 removal costs
127,75 m³ water * € 0,85 per m³ water = € 108,60 water costs +
Total = € 1.386,10
With Milk & Go
150 milkings per dag / 9 floor cleanings = 16,7 floor cleanings per day
16,7 floor cleanings per day * 7 liters * 365 days per year = 42,67 m³ water
42,67 m³ water * € 10 removal costs per m³ = € 426,70 removal costs
42,67 m³ water * € 0,85 per m³ water = € 36,25 water costs +
Total = € 462,95
Thus:
Without Milk & Go after every 3 cows floor cleaning = € 1.386,10
With Milk & Go after every 9 cows floor cleaning = € 462,95 -
Economization after 1 year = € 923,15