German interest in buying milking equipment increases. So, the percentage of German cattle farmers who wish to invest in milking equipment has increased in 2019, compared to 2018. This has been shown by the intermediate results of the survey with German dairy farmers by AgriDirect Germany GmbH.
The proportion of German dairy farmers wishing to invest in milking facilities has increased with 2.7% in 2019. This is the highest percentage since 2015. 63.5% of these farmers want to invest in a milking robot, 16.3% want to invest in a herringbone-milking parlor. The renovation plans are increasing as well. The proportion of dairy farmers wishing to invest in feeding technology has also increased a bit.
9% of dairy farmers want to invest in bunker silos. A quarter of these farmers is planning to do this investment within the first 6 months of 2020. 17.8% wants to invest in the second half of 2020.
Source: dairyglobal.net.
