A Dairy Facility Upgrade for Future Generations | Lely Large Herd Dairy

Walk through Bremer’s Pine Ridge Farm near Lake City, Minnesota where they milk cows in a new cross-vent barn with 6 Lely Astronaut A5 robotic milking systems, 5 Lely Discovery 120 Collectors, 5 Luna brushes, 2 Lely Vector automatic feeding systems and a feed kitchen. After milking with Lely for 10+ years in a retrofit, it was time to upgrade the facilities, start new and prepare for future generations with automatic feeding to save time and have more precise, smart feeding. 🐄In this video, tour the massive new dairy barn. 🤖Learn how a fully-robotic operation runs, from feeding, manure collection and automated milking. 🔮Learn how the Lely A5 helped the dairy build for the future. After milking in a traditional parlor for decades, the Bremer’s installed three Lely Astronaut A3 robotic milking systems into their existing barn in 2010. A decade of success with the first few robots gave them the results and confidence to install more. In 2022, they built a new barn and worked with their local Lely Center — Leedstone, Inc — to install a wide variety of Lely robotics, including a two-MFR Lely Vector automatic feeding system, six Lely Astronaut A5 robotic milking systems, five Discovery Collector 120 mobile barn cleaners, a Lely Cosmix concentrate feeder and Lely Luna cow brushes. The installation of their Lely Vector system was the first crane-loaded version in their area. They now feed all their milk cows, dry cows and pre-fresh with the Lely Vector, which is currently running with 30% free time and 98.4% accuracy. (Data as of March 2025) 🤖 Ready to explore the technology behind smarter farming? Download brochures on Lely's milking, feeding, manure, and farm management solutions here: https://info.lely.com/brochures