Northcliffe-based dairy, Bannister Downs, is working on a $12 million automatic milking operation that is expected to be the most modern robot dairy in Australia.
According to The West Australian, the Automatic Milking Rotary, which uses laser-guided robots to place and remove the milking cups on the cows, will milk 950 cows twice a day and will require no human intervention.
The dairy’s co-owner, Sue Daubney, said "They're Gen-Y cows … They come and go as they please. It's all about them."
The technology is expected to be completed in early 2016.
Bannister Downs is a 100 tonne a week milk and cream producer with 2,500 cows and more than 1000ha of farmland.