ADF Milking founder explains its innovative milking technology during presentation of the King's Award for Enterprise 2024
ADF Milking founder explains its innovative milking technology during presentation of the King's Award for Enterprise 2024
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00:00So when the teat comes this way up, it's obviously on the teat, so when the teat dip comes up
00:24and sprays inside the mouthpiece chamber, we want it to spray upwards to get right to
00:29the top of the teat. And the beauty with spraying the teat immediately, if you imagine we don't
00:37dip the teat immediately and it's manually sprayed, we dip it. As soon as that unit comes
00:43off, we've got negative pressure in the udder, wide open teat canal, and a high likelihood
00:50of bacteria on the end of the teat, because that's the hardest bit of the teat to clean
00:53before milking, and a droplet of milk. So what typically happens is, unit comes off,
00:58that droplet of milk from bacteria has drawn up the teat canal, and then someone comes
01:03and does their best endeavours to sanitise and condition the teat. But you're not going
01:08to sanitise because the bugs are already up the chute. And the skin conditioner is not
01:15going to do its full job because the teat has now closed back up. The pores of the skin
01:21aren't open. Immediately after milking, the teat's engorged so we can get the best use
01:26of that ammonia. And then when the unit comes away, it falls over, the nozzle falls over,
01:37because now we're going to put sanitised water through and we need to wash the liner,
01:41so every teat on every cow and every milking has to be cleaned off, otherwise it's just
01:46again. So this was what we won our Queen's Award for innovation a few years ago.
01:55Our King's Award is making a surges of this nozzle, because this tube, when we're actually
02:03milking the cow, has been sanitised and it's empty. So we connect it to a third valve,
02:10which emits clean filtered air, and each valve on each teat is biased at 10 kPa.
02:19So it's been a known issue for the last 50 years, particularly if you've got smooth teats,
02:31you get very high mass speeds in the vacuum, and at that point the teats start being massaged,
02:36because the liner can only massage that much. And that results in faster milk,
02:43and a lot of vacuum, and more milk can help.
02:52I'm very excited to be here this morning, I had a really good look at your website and
02:55watched the video and everything else, and it took me back to what I'm afraid to say is 50
03:00years ago. I used to go and stay with my grandparents in Aberdeenshire, and the
03:05absolute high point of our holiday always was being allowed to go and milk the two Jersey cows,
03:13who invariably kicked the bucket over. I can still smell in my own mind the sort of gungy
03:19stuff that I had to put on my hands, and I got quite good at it actually, but anyway I haven't
03:26done it since. And coming from an agricultural, well my father kept beef cattle actually, not
03:31dairy cattle, and I'm just so happy to be here to do this wonderful award for you on behalf of
03:39His Majesty the King. You're on the cutting edge of, well, innovation, welfare for the animals,
03:47it was really interesting watching what you are all producing, and I just want to say a million
03:53congratulations on my own behalf, and what a joy it is to be here to represent His Majesty and to
04:00give him this. James, on behalf of His Majesty King Charles III, it gives me really enormous
04:05pleasure to present you with this King's Award for Enterprise, and many many congratulations to you all.
04:20I'm very honoured to be standing here today to accept the King's Award
04:25for Innovation on behalf of ADF Milking. Of course we have Lady Emma representing His Majesty King
04:33Charles, but also local community leaders, government departments, trade bodies, the media,
04:44and of course some of our valued customers. Thank you for taking the time to celebrate with us.
04:53This award is not just for innovation however, it's recognition to all of you, the incredible
04:59team behind this business. This award belongs to everybody who worked so hard to get us to where we
05:05are today. Every one of you has played a vital role in making this achievement possible.
05:14Innovation doesn't happen by accident. It's a product of hard work, creativity,
05:22dedication, and persistence. Whether you're working in the technical team, on the front line of R&D,
05:31or if you're in marketing or sales, finance, customer service, or production and warehousing,
05:39each of you has made a significant contribution to our success. It's your passion and drive that
05:46brought us to this moment. I also want to extend a big thank you to our partners and customers
05:54whose trust in us keeps us pushing to innovate
05:58and improve. They challenge us in the best possible way and we're grateful for their
06:05continued belief in what we do. This reward also gives us encouragement to keep moving forward,
06:13to keep innovating, and to keep making a difference.
06:19We have exciting new products coming on stream in the next few months
06:23and we look ahead to next year and also tackling new markets.
06:29So to our amazing team and to all of you joining us today, I thank you.