DeLaval International held the Irish launch of its innovative pasture-based voluntary milking system (VMS) in Killarney recently.

The event included a farm visit to one of the first DeLaval VMS with ABC grazing systems in Europe on a dairy farm near Ballyduff in North Kerry where Johnny O’Hanlon and his parents Gerard and Ann have a mainly spring calving Holstein herd. Two DeLaval VMS Supras were installed last December and another one in April. They also installed a new 16,000 litre DeLaval DXCEM bulk tank with a heat recovery system. Here, Johnny outlines the reasons he installed the machine.