March 17, 2013

How Israel Became The World Leader In Milking Technologies




When it comes to automated animal-milking, Israel is considered a world-leader. For decades, Israeli innovators have continuously developed advanced techniques to maintain dairy farms and milking efficiently. It is no surprise then that when a Canadian goat farm needed to enhance productivity – they turned to Israeli technology.

AfiMilk, a local company specializing in dairy herd management and situated in the Jordan valley kibbutz Afikim, has built a goat-milking parlor at Mariposa Dairy in Ontario, Canada. Mariposa Dairy has 1,500 goats that produce goat cheese for supermarkets in North America and was looking for a solution to increase productivity.