Source:  NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 7/29/22


Assistant Professor Alejandro Gutierrez-Li and his collaborators Cesar Escalante, Luis Peña-Levano, Shaheer Burney, Grace Melo and James Salfer recently won a competitive $250,000 grant from the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program. Their three-year project will study the costs and benefits of implementing automatic milking systems (AMS) and will assess whether robotic milking leads to long-term improvements in farm profitability, sustainable practices and financial resilience, at a time when the dairy industry (worth billions of dollars nationwide) is struggling to obtain workers.

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