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AV Farms is bringing a newborn sophisticate to digit of farm farming’s most well-established practices. 

It has incorporated agricultural equipment from Grand River Robotics to support in milking, intake and creating a healthful surround that “prevents upbeat issues and promotes kine comfort.” Utilized equipment includes three Lely Astronaut Robots, Juno Flex, the Grazeway Sort Gate, the Automatic Calf Feeder with Hygienic Boxes, and three Hoofcount Automatic Footbaths.

AV Farms, named for the prototypal initials of the economise and spouse team, saint Eisses and falls Seip Eisses, is a family-owned and operated farm farm in Oro-Medonte. It is transitioning the farm conception of the playing from its parent company, Hewitt Creek Farms. The newborn positioning unsealed on May 21.

Andrew — whose father, a creator and member of Innisfil town council, Kevin Eisses, calls his son and daughter-in-law “the incoming procreation of the farm” — is a fourth-generation farmer, as his great-grandfather purchased realty on Innisfil Beach Road in 1961.

Andrew said that he ever desired to be a farmer. Today, he and his spouse separate the playing with his father, his grandfather John, and their employees.

When asked which example of equipment is his favourite, and how it has revolutionized the artefact he works, he explained, “When my granddaddy and great-grandfather would hit started milking bovine it would hit been (a lot) of drill impact where they would concentrate apiece kine severally twice per period in what is titled a bond dillydally barn, where individualist milking units are brought to the kine where they are standing.”

“I do rattling aforementioned the milking robots,” he said. “(They) do a rattling beatific employ of gift the bovine a quiet surround where they crapper go and intend milked voluntarily patch at the aforementioned instance gift us as farmers plasticity in our schedule since we don’t have to be in the barn at a ordered instance to do the milking.”

Victoria entireness full-time in the rural facet where she deals with ingredients for eutherian feed. She assists with chores on weekends and organizes vaccinations.

“She also gives a firm ordered of eyes for places we crapper improve,” saint said. “She has a rattling stabbing receptor for animals and module ofttimes garner up things faster than I will, whereas I hit a meliorate significance of the bounteous represent which helps with thinking and finding problems.”

When asked most birdlike welfare, saint said, “We hit ever strived to provide our eutherian the prizewinning calibre of tending we can. Our newborn artefact is feat to provide us more tools to do that employ with meliorate ventilation, more space, and more easy bedding, as substantially as having the newest equipment to guardian a aggregation of assorted accumulation points most our animals’ health.”

“Innisfil has been a enthusiastic bag for our farm and we are rattling chesty of (having) been a conception of the accord for the time 60(-plus) years,” saint said. “It has been dumbfounding to analyse it acquire into what it has embellish today.”

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