Efficiency and power savings via smart technology

Paeroa Farm Services is encouraging farmers across the Hauraki Plains, Coromandel Peninsula and Northern Tauranga to take a closer look at what is happening inside their cow sheds and how they could improve their systems resulting in benefits to productivity and bottom line.

Owner Warick Buchanan says two areas stand out as offering the greatest gains for dairy farmers right now: labour efficiency and power savings through using smart technology.

As a Waikato Milking Systems dealer Warick advises that the two products that stand out with labour savings in the cow shed are the ECR-S and ECR Plus models of automatic cup removers. “These are leading-edge products and can be integrated into any milking machine system.

They have been very popular as farmers appreciate the benefits and we are supplying and installing these on four different sites presently,” he says. With an auto-start feature, Warick says the ECR-S, has been designed to make the milking process quicker and easier for the operator. Accurate flow sensing provides peace of mind that the herd is being milked out correctly every time. Suitable for all milking machines, the milking parameters can be easily adjusted to suit your farm’s requirements via the ECR Controller.