Reduce the time and cost of milking

Milking cows is time and cost intensive - milking uses about 50% of total farm labour and 75% of farmers spend more than 5 hours a day milking.

Key farmer tools and resources:

To make milking easier and reduce the time and cost involved, Dairy Australia invests in Cowtime, a program that focuses on improving milking productivity.

Milking monitor tool:

Use the Milking Monitor tool to assess how you compare with other dairy farmers, and get hints on how to improve.

Energy monitor tool:

The Dairy Energy tool generates a personalised report on your energy use, compared to collated figures for the Australian dairy industry.

Dairy design tips and advice

Dairy Designs includes photos, plans performance measures and contact details of a range of well designed, real-life Swingover, Double up and Rotary dairies.