Lely, founded in 1948, directs all its efforts towards creating a sustainable, profitable and enjoyable future in farming. Circling the cow, the company develops premium robotics and data systems that increase animal welfare, flexibility and the production on the dairy farm. For more than 25 years, Lely has been leading in the sale and service of automated milking systems to successive generations of dairy farmers across the globe. Every day, Lely inspires her employees to offer customers innovative solutions and be a reliable partner for long-term advice and support. With her Head office in The Netherlands and a worldwide network of dedicated Lely Center locations for tailor-made sales and support, the Lely Group is active in more than 40 countries and employs around 1.200 people.

During a milking as many as 200 data points are gathered, varying from data about milk production to cow health. Along with feeding data, the farmer receives an increasingly complete overview of farm management. Based on this data, the farmer makes various decisions: Which cows need extra attention? Do the cows still get the right ration? Do I have to dose some more or less feed?

Analyzing and optimizing feed management is one of the areas where data is a useful tool. By means of various reports and graphs and extracting data from it, the farmer makes certain decisions. But what does this data really say about the performance of the farm. Can we see relationships between DM intake, milk yield and rumination minutes? This is what you are going to investigate.

At first setting up a research planning yourself in consultation with various colleagues from Lely, after which you are ready to go into the field yourself. Start a conversation with the dairy farmer, dive into the data and find out which relations are visible regarding feeding management. An internship assignment in which practice, theory and data are combined.

Your internship mission:
Trent DM intake in dry period in relation to peak production.                                              Investigating the relationship between the DM intake in the dry period and peak production at the start of lactation at Vector farms (automatic feeding)

Responsibilities:

• the internship is for a period of 5-6 months;
• availability for 40 hours per week.

• Your educational level is Bachelor/University, direction Animal Science, animal and livestock farming;
• you have knowledge of reseach, presenting, data analysus, robotics and dairyfarm and foreknowledge;
• your languages are Dutch and English (fluently).

 Further, you have the following competences:

•    analytical skills;
•    being able to see and establish linkages;
•    being able to independently set up and conduct a study/research.

We offer the opportunity to gain experience at one of the largest industrial robot producers in the Netherlands!

In addition:

• a compensation of max. €400,- per month;
• the possibility to stay in a company owned apartment;
• a challenging internship within a stimulating environment and focused on personal development and growth;
• the possibility of working at home;

and.... your own barista who makes the best cappuccino and fresh milk directly from one of our fellow farmers!