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How to future-proof your milking parlour investments

Aidan Brennan looks at some of the likely future trends in dairy farming and outlines the pitfalls to avoid when improving milking facilities on dairy farms.

DAIRY EQUIPMENT 3 January 2026

How to future-proof your milking parlour investments

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A visit to the DeLaval headquarters in Sweden

A visit to the DeLaval headquarters in Sweden

MILK QUALITY 3 January 2026

New Holland aims to address labour issues with R4 robots

New Holland aims to address labour issues with R4 robots

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Farmer Writes: summer 2025 the most difficult of my career

Farmer Writes: summer 2025 the most difficult of my career

Farmer Writes: summer 2025 the most difficult of my career

FARMER WRITES 19 October 2025

A look inside the DeLaval Swedish headquarters

A look inside the DeLaval Swedish headquarters

A look inside the DeLaval Swedish headquarters

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Lely robots helping to drive solids production in Meath

Lely robots helping to drive solids production in Meath

Daire Cregg reports from the farm of Michael and Enda Horgan who are milking 259 cows using four Lely robots.

NEWS 1 January 1970

AI removes need for ‘MacGyver’ engineers

AI removes need for ‘MacGyver’ engineers

Lely boss Niall McGauran told the recent AgTech Ireland/ Irish Farmers Journal ‘Transforming agriculture with artificial intelligence’ conference that AI has completely changed its operations.

NEWS 1 January 1970

Manufacturing the Merlo way

Manufacturing the Merlo way

Gary Abbott recently travelled to Merlo’s headquaters in Italy to find out more about the brands manufacturing process – where over 90% of components are built in-house.

FARM MACHINERY 1 January 1970

Lely Juno pushes both feed and production on Longford farm

Lely Juno pushes both feed and production on Longford farm

In 2021, Derek O’Halleran installed a Lely Juno automatic feed pusher on his farm – a labour-saving machine he claims paid for itself after 10 months due to increased milk yield. Gary Abbott writes.

NEWS 1 January 1970

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Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe

Our success in export markets depends not only on finding new buyers, but on protecting the strong and hard-fought position we occupy on the global stage.

Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe