Pilot Study of Energy Consumption and Renewable Generation in Robotic and Conventional Dairying

Description

Article in the "Dale Farm View - Agri Business" magazine, Issue June/Jul 2021

Subject

Communicates the output of the iTEMiD research project to the dairy farmig community.

 

In partnership with AgriSearch and Dale Farm, Ulster University
undertook a pilot study in Intelligent Total Energy Management in
Dairying (iTEMiD). Staff from the School of Computing, Engineering and
Intelligent Systems (Jim Harkin, Malachy McElholm and Ryan Beveridge)
on the Magee Campus of Ulster, commenced the 16-month pilot study in
Dec 2020 across six farms consisting of traditional and robotic milking
processes.