Designing a new and technologically advanced cow barn is a challenging task, especially if you are planning to milk the cows with the robots. Improper planning c...

David Kammel and Jouni Pitkaranta wrote this article to show farmers it is possible to develop a farmstead plan that allows for future growth in a phased constru...

David Kammel and Jouni Pitkaranta wrote this article to discuss the big picture of a dairy farm growth from previous generations to the future generations. Desig...

Jouni Pitkaranta wrote this article to address the 4 factors that make some farms have successful retrofit barn projects using AMS and those farmers that have ha...

David Kammel, Jouni Pitkaranta and Virpi Kurkela wrote this article to explain the design process that can create a labor efficient ASM barn design. Making sure ...

Virpi Kurkela wrote this article to describe the key features in a functional AMS barn design. It focuses on features that sometime are lacking in AMS barn desig...

Virpi Kurkela and Jouni Pitkaranta wrote this article to describe how cow comfort is the most important part of the AMS barn successful design. Cow comfort and t...

Jouni Pitkaranta and Virpi Kurkela wrote this article to address how the 4dbarn design process focuses on the management plan and work routines needed in the AMS...

Marjo Posio and Jouni Pitkaranta wrote this article to describe common boatnecks that 4dBarn has found on barn designs that they have visited to determine labor ...

Marjo Posio and Virpi Kurkela wrote this article to describe the labor-saving features that should be in a new calf barn design. 4dBarn data collected on caring ...

The authors Jouni Pitkäranta and Marjo Posio are robot barn functional design and troubleshooting consultants with 4dBarn Ltd Company.4dBarn has made a field sur...