LA GRANJA LECHERA ROBOTIZADA MÁS GRANDE DEL MUNDO - AGRÍCOLA ANCALI, CHILE 🇨🇱
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90 robots, 4,000 dairy cows, and almost 50 liters per cow per day. We step inside Agrícola Ancali, in Chile, the world's largest robotic dairy farm.
Ancali didn't buy a robotic milking system: they designed their own. They call it AMS, Ancali Milking System, and it was born after Pedro Heller spent a year in the United States studying robotics to replace four rotary milking parlors that had reached the end of their useful life. This transition resulted in 10% more milk production, a longer average lactation period for the herd, and 40% less labor.
We walk through the entire operation: the flow of cows within the robotic milking unit, the sorting gates and milking permit, the robot milking inside, the PMR (Physical Milking Receptacle) and the pellet the cow receives in the robot, the genetics adapted to robotic milking, the manure treatment with sand recovery, the biodigesters that generate energy for the herd, and the in-house feed mill.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Ancali's Numbers
02:12 Welcome: The World's Largest Robotic Dairy
03:09 Pedro Heller: 90 Robots, 4,000 Cows, Almost 50 Liters
04:02 From Rotary Milking Parlors to Robotics
05:33 The Signed Contract: The 45 Liters Nobody Believed
06:28 AMS: Ancali's Proprietary Milking System
07:41 Circularity: Manure, Biogas, and Digestate
10:13 Culture, Team, and the Daily 12 O'Clock Meeting
10:54 Robot or Rotary Milking Parlor? The Tailor-Made Suit
14:06 6,500 hectares: corn, alfalfa, and nuts
15:51 Mauricio Castillo: inside the robotic module
18:30 Cow traffic, waiting area, and comfort
20:39 The robot milking from the inside
22:21 Reproduction, PMR, and pellets in the robot
23:46 Cows per robot: why they dropped to 54-55
25:40 Genetics: the Ancali index and genotyping
27:55 Pablo Vázquez: slurry and sand recovery
29:29 Biodigesters, cogeneration, and digestate
32:15 Ronald Garrido: 80 million kilos of forage
35:45 The harvest: 24/7 and 1,200 hectares of corn
37:50 Bunkers, stock, and forage balance
42:57 The live dashboard: 51 liters and 3.1 visits
44:08 Data for the contributor, not for management
45:59 Katherine Rovilar: safety
46:51 Raúl Sandoval: the feed mill
50:44 15 types of pellets and quality control
52:44 Daniel Muñoz: a producer who feeds producers
54:49 Price per kilo or output per liter?
WHO APPEARS
Pedro Heller Ancarola - CEO of Agrícola Ancali
Mauricio Castillo - Veterinarian, Operations Manager
Pablo Vázquez - Process, Manure, and Energy Manager
Ronald Garrido - Milk Area Controller
Raúl Sandoval - Manager of the BoiFit Feed Plant
Daniel Muñoz - Finance and Sales Manager at BoiFit
Katherine Rovilar - Security Officer
THE NUMBERS
90 milking robots installed
4,000 dairy cows - 9,000 animals total
Nearly 50 liters of milk per cow per day
3 or more voluntary visits to the robot per cow
365 employees - approximately 50 animals per employee
85-86% sand recovery from bedding
20,000 m³ biodigesters, 20 to 25 days residence time
1,100 1,200 m³ of biogas per hour
6,500 total hectares - 4,000 dedicated to forage
80 million kg of corn silage
Own plant with a capacity of 3,900 tons per month and 15 types of pellets
TECHNICAL TOPICS
Robotic milking and automated milking systems (AMS). Free and guided cow traffic. Selector gates and one-way systems. Milking permits and visit frequency. Cows per robot and milking time. PMR (Physical Mixed Ration), partially mixed ration. Concentrate and pellets in the robot. Sand bedding, scraper, and thermal comfort. Mastitis detection by conductivity. Synchronization and voluntary waiting. Genotyping and selection for robotic milking. Circular economy: slurry, biodigester, biogas, cogeneration, and digestate. Corn, alfalfa, and oat-vetch silage. Cracking and Penn State screens. Pelletizing. Margin per liter.
ROBOTIC MILKING COURSE
With Dr. Trevor DeVries (University of Guelph), a world-renowned expert in dairy cow behavior and nutrition. This course covers the three key decisions that drive milk yield and margin: cow traffic and robot visits, PMR (Process Milk Reduction) and concentrate, and housing, leg health, and udder health.
Online classes at your own pace, in Spanish, with immediate access. Includes a certificate and 12 months of access to the international community.
Use the coupon code ANCALI for your exclusive discount, plus credits for formulating diets in Ruminants.AI, the scientifically backed AI for ruminant nutrition: ruminants.ai
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#RoboticMilking #RoboticDairy #MilkingRobot #DairyFarming #DairyCows #AnimalNutrition #Ancali #Chile #MilkProduction #AMS #Biodigester #Silage
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LA GRANJA LECHERA ROBOTIZADA MÁS GRANDE DEL MUNDO - AGRÍCOLA ANCALI, CHILE 🇨🇱
Santafé AgroInstituto - Bovinos Lecheros y Carne
116,879 views
ANCALI Coupon: https://santafeagroinstituto.com/robo...
90 robots, 4,000 dairy cows, and almost 50 liters per cow per day. We step inside Agrícola Ancali, in Chile, the world's largest robotic dairy farm.
Ancali didn't buy a robotic milking system: they designed their own. They call it AMS, Ancali Milking System, and it was born after Pedro Heller spent a year in the United States studying robotics to replace four rotary milking parlors that had reached the end of their useful life. This transition resulted in 10% more milk production, a longer average lactation period for the herd, and 40% less labor.
We walk through the entire operation: the flow of cows within the robotic milking unit, the sorting gates and milking permit, the robot milking inside, the PMR (Physical Milking Receptacle) and the pellet the cow receives in the robot, the genetics adapted to robotic milking, the manure treatment with sand recovery, the biodigesters that generate energy for the herd, and the in-house feed mill.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Ancali's Numbers
02:12 Welcome: The World's Largest Robotic Dairy
03:09 Pedro Heller: 90 Robots, 4,000 Cows, Almost 50 Liters
04:02 From Rotary Milking Parlors to Robotics
05:33 The Signed Contract: The 45 Liters Nobody Believed
06:28 AMS: Ancali's Proprietary Milking System
07:41 Circularity: Manure, Biogas, and Digestate
10:13 Culture, Team, and the Daily 12 O'Clock Meeting
10:54 Robot or Rotary Milking Parlor? The Tailor-Made Suit
14:06 6,500 hectares: corn, alfalfa, and nuts
15:51 Mauricio Castillo: inside the robotic module
18:30 Cow traffic, waiting area, and comfort
20:39 The robot milking from the inside
22:21 Reproduction, PMR, and pellets in the robot
23:46 Cows per robot: why they dropped to 54-55
25:40 Genetics: the Ancali index and genotyping
27:55 Pablo Vázquez: slurry and sand recovery
29:29 Biodigesters, cogeneration, and digestate
32:15 Ronald Garrido: 80 million kilos of forage
35:45 The harvest: 24/7 and 1,200 hectares of corn
37:50 Bunkers, stock, and forage balance
42:57 The live dashboard: 51 liters and 3.1 visits
44:08 Data for the contributor, not for management
45:59 Katherine Rovilar: safety
46:51 Raúl Sandoval: the feed mill
50:44 15 types of pellets and quality control
52:44 Daniel Muñoz: a producer who feeds producers
54:49 Price per kilo or output per liter?
WHO APPEARS
Pedro Heller Ancarola - CEO of Agrícola Ancali
Mauricio Castillo - Veterinarian, Operations Manager
Pablo Vázquez - Process, Manure, and Energy Manager
Ronald Garrido - Milk Area Controller
Raúl Sandoval - Manager of the BoiFit Feed Plant
Daniel Muñoz - Finance and Sales Manager at BoiFit
Katherine Rovilar - Security Officer
THE NUMBERS
90 milking robots installed
4,000 dairy cows - 9,000 animals total
Nearly 50 liters of milk per cow per day
3 or more voluntary visits to the robot per cow
365 employees - approximately 50 animals per employee
85-86% sand recovery from bedding
20,000 m³ biodigesters, 20 to 25 days residence time
1,100 1,200 m³ of biogas per hour
6,500 total hectares - 4,000 dedicated to forage
80 million kg of corn silage
Own plant with a capacity of 3,900 tons per month and 15 types of pellets
TECHNICAL TOPICS
Robotic milking and automated milking systems (AMS). Free and guided cow traffic. Selector gates and one-way systems. Milking permits and visit frequency. Cows per robot and milking time. PMR (Physical Mixed Ration), partially mixed ration. Concentrate and pellets in the robot. Sand bedding, scraper, and thermal comfort. Mastitis detection by conductivity. Synchronization and voluntary waiting. Genotyping and selection for robotic milking. Circular economy: slurry, biodigester, biogas, cogeneration, and digestate. Corn, alfalfa, and oat-vetch silage. Cracking and Penn State screens. Pelletizing. Margin per liter.
ROBOTIC MILKING COURSE
With Dr. Trevor DeVries (University of Guelph), a world-renowned expert in dairy cow behavior and nutrition. This course covers the three key decisions that drive milk yield and margin: cow traffic and robot visits, PMR (Process Milk Reduction) and concentrate, and housing, leg health, and udder health.
Online classes at your own pace, in Spanish, with immediate access. Includes a certificate and 12 months of access to the international community.
Use the coupon code ANCALI for your exclusive discount, plus credits for formulating diets in Ruminants.AI, the scientifically backed AI for ruminant nutrition: ruminants.ai
Subscribe for more technical tours of high-performing dairy farms. Let us know in the comments what caught your attention.
#RoboticMilking #RoboticDairy #MilkingRobot #DairyFarming #DairyCows #AnimalNutrition #Ancali #Chile #MilkProduction #AMS #Biodigester #Silage