 120 cows with robotic milkers and rotationally grazing. We had applied for a sergrant to look further into the grazing part of farming and we were interested in rotational grazing and how we could use that to make more money with our farm and how we could help others get started farming without a lot of capital investment. So we had applied for the grant, received it, and we used that to hold pasture walks and do some experimental grazing with different sizes of paddocks and fencing options. So that seemed to work really well for us and we enjoyed doing it. We have 28 paddocks that we rotate the cows move daily, once a day, and the paddocks are 3.3 acres and with different grasses, mostly orchard grass, red and white clover, and some Malfalfa. The farther away paddocks in the spring when their growth is good will cut those for hay because we can't possibly keep up with it during the spring flush. So the 120 cows will rotate around the paddocks and usually we start about last week in April and we will end by Thanksgiving. So we will supplement a little bit in April as the grass grows and then probably beginning around the middle of September we will start supplementing as the grass slows up its growth for winter. That is a gradual process and we have learned that it works really well for transitioning into the winter feed portion of our program. In the longer term we think that it has helped us with our management and how we manage pastures and I know at least two or three farmers have started grazing because of what we have learned in visiting our farm and talking about how to manage cows on pasture. Our robotic milkers in 2010 actually started January 25th and trained the cows through that winter and in spring started rotationally grazing them and it works out really well. We let them out, they have to come back to the barn to get water and they come into the barn and go through the robot and sort gates at the end of the barn and we will let them back out if they have been milked and it won't let them back out if they haven't been milked. It has actually helped our management because we get a lot of reports from the computer and from the milker that if a cow is in heat or if she has mastitis or some other issue we will get that report as an attention on the computer and so we know that we have to go look for that cow or find out what is going on whether or breed her if she is in heat. A lot of benefits to that labor wise also because we were able to eliminate some of our labor and take advantage of doing some things for instance a birthday party we can go through a birthday party without having to come home and milk cows we can wait and do what we have to do in the barn after. We can go do things with the grandkids and ball games and that sort of thing. If we are doing hay we don't have to stop doing hay to milk cows we can just go ahead and finish our hay up and so that kind of thing has really helped us and I think it adds to the efficiency of the operation we spent with our 120 cows we would spend eight hours a day just milking and doing clean up by the time we got the cows out of the pasture got them milked and cleaned up after we had eight hours a day into that twice a day. Now our cows are getting milk average at 2.7 times per day with about 20 minutes labor day and morning and night. The cows really enjoy that I think. I haven't talked to them lately but they you know the cows that want to be milked get milk when they pretty much when they want to and those cows that need to be milked but are a little lazy or they're in heat or have another issue then we'll go get those twice a day we usually get three or four a day that'll do that especially the ones that are in heat they're you know interested in doing other things. Cows are content you can go through the barn and you know you really have to be careful because they might come up and try to you know eat your hat or something and they're you know you don't have to worry about them running away you can go ahead and pat them they've become pretty docile animals. I think the robots would actually help farmers or even young farmers start farming and not be so burdened with everyday routine chores like milking you know they they can get a get a robot and then or two or three whatever and get started farming with those and get all their work done not having to have extra labor and try to manage that along with learning learning everything else they need to learn.