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Robotic Milkers and an Automated Greenhouse: Inside a High-Tech Small Farm

3 pointsby johnny313over 6 years ago

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jelliclesfarmover 6 years ago
Excellent! Exciting times ahead. This is similar to what I envision with Jellicles small acreage farm bots without the animals(I have no experience with that).<p>My design is for 5 acres, serving 100-150 people and one working person and a suite of small light weight bots and one heavy duty farm bot. Can be fully automated. Combination of hydroponics and field grown.<p>So far, everything is technically “possible” except harvesting and soft fruits(like berries). I can automate(theoretically) everything from greenhouse operations to field prep to planting to fertilizing to limited harvesting and packing.<p>We can do so far: greens, fruits(nightshade), foot crops, brassicas, squashes, pumpkins and orchard operations. Even some kinds of grains like millets and barley. With floriculture..so far I have only figured out sunflowers..<p>Now..Gots to figure out prototyping...
leroy_masochistover 6 years ago
The math for the milking machines seems wacky. Average milking session is supposedly 6 minutes, which means each robot has a capacity of 10 cows&#x2F;hour (not taking into account changeover time which is likely not trivial). There are 3 robots and a herd of 150 who are milked 4x&#x2F;day on average. That&#x27;s 600 total sessions, or 60 machine-hours, so this implies that each machine is operating at perfect efficiency 20 hours&#x2F;day.