The aim of our scientific research was to determine the period and conditions of the viability of milking robots "Monobox", produced by GEA (Germany) on the dairy complex of the private agricultural enterprise "Vilshanske", Dvurichnaya district, Kharkiv region, Ukraine. Two robots were brought to the above farm in 2018, each of the robots is able to milk 60 cows/a day by the desire of the cows. The peculiarities of the scientific investigation were that the efficiency of the use of the milking robots had been determined in the conditions of the solution of the main scientific and practical tasks to create the model welfare conditions for the maintenance of highly producing cows. It has been found out that in spite of high initial investments the use of the system of a cow milking on a voluntary basis by robots had many advantages, the main of which was the minimization of the human factor, the automatizing of the most important and labor-intensive processes when milking the cows. However, in addition to the effective system of milking the cows' productivity was influenced by some other significant factors, such as: breed selection, qualified selection, economically substantiated fodder basis, the balanced feeding, maintenance in the welfare, for example, the creation of the favorable microclimate, the free movement, free access to the feeds and water, proper veterinary service, etc. The analysis of the use of robots testified to their good adaptation to the animal needs and the average number of approaches of the cows to the milking robot was 3, 4 times. The quality of milk increased due to the precise doing of the operations as for the fulfillment of the sanitary norms of care about the cow' s udder and milking glasses. The milk was separated by

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The results of monitoring and analysis of production and organisational indicators of more than 50 farms have been presented, identifying the main elements that characterise them. There have been covered the main principles of forming the system of technology parameters, the directions of minimizing the determining conditions that negatively affect the production process. It has been explained that enlargement of farms with 50-100 cows considerably raises the technological level of milk production and storage. There were determined the parameters of technological and technical solutions of the enterprises with the number of cows from 50 to 120 heads. There were determined limits of parameters limitation, produced energy efficiency was evaluated and modelled on the example of minimal size (50 cows with annual productivity from 7000 kg to 9000 kg of milk per head). The structure of energy intensity of production was calculated by types - milk, live weight of culled animals, gain of breeding animals received brood. The energy intensity of excrement and litter has been taken into account. It was calculated that the highest proportion in the structure of the energy content of products appropriate for feeding belongs to the energy content of milk produced - 85.7-88.6 %, and since it was the most influential factor in the coefficients of energy efficiency of the main and general products, the functional correlations of the energy content of products and fat were determined. The influence of changes in qualitative indicators of other types of products on energy consumption in production was calculated namely fatness of culled cattle and animals from which growth was obtained. The functional determined correlations allow us to form the key elements of the cattle breeding production system interrelations, taking into account the peculiarities of a particular system of parameters, determine the energy efficiency of technological processes, and influence effectively the use of all kinds of resources.

The work aimed to develop advanced technology in dairy cattle breeding using robotic milking of cows for the production of high-quality milk and dairy raw materials. The research was conducted on an array of low-capacity enterprises, including farms of the NAAS Network (annual production of up to 20 thousand tons of milk). The possibility of a modular increase in the use of individual elements of robotic milking technology during its extension is analyzed and the main standard size is determined – 100-150 cows. An array of statistical and empirical data is processed, individual elements of the phenomenon under study are studied in detail on the example of specific objects, and parameters of milk production under certain conditions are developed and determined. The theoretical and methodological basis was official materials of the statistics department, legislative and regulatory acts of state authorities on the development of the agro-industrial complex, works of domestic and foreign scientists on the development of the agricultural sector. Determination of the rational level of the number of cattle, dairy productivity of cows and production parameters of the farm when using robotic cow milking technology is carried out based on monitoring the possibilities of using milking equipment (robot) in the conditions of various technological solutions. The rational technology of keeping cows and the level of their productivity – 7.5-8.0 thousand kg of milk per year-are justified, and the limits of the required average costs for a farm using robotic milking are determined. By certain parameters, the rational structure of the herd and its total number are justified. These indicators made it possible to establish the parameters of feed production and feed supply for the milk production enterprise by the established level of cow productivity, as well as to calculate the natural indicators of resource consumption and the required level of investment. In particular, the total demand for feed with the insurance fund is 20.9 thousand C of feed units., including mixed feed – 9.3 thousand centers of feed units. (of these, grain is 8.0 thousand centers of feed units), juicy-3.6 thousand C feed units., rough-5.0 thousand rubles. C feed units., green-2.6 thousand C feed units., animals – 0.4 thousand centers of feed. units. The total annual amount of revenue from the sale of dairy cattle products is 9072 thousand UAH. with the specified total cost of milk and beef in live weight, the total profit can be 3249 thousand UAH per year. Under these conditions, the level of profitability of dairy cattle production is 55.8 %.

The article presents the results of a study comparing the use of an innovative approach to the organization of dairy cow feeding technology in comparison with the traditional one. The growth of the world's population presents livestock producers and scientists with the problem of increasing productivity while reducing feed protein costs. The use of innovative developments of scientists in the practical field allows solving these issues. The implementation of domestic developments in production will contribute to the increase of milk production with a simultaneous decrease in its cost price, which will increase the competitiveness of livestock products produced in Ukraine on the world market. The research was conducted in the southern region of Ukraine in the conditions of the State Enterprise of the Askaniyske Institute of Irrigated Agriculture of the National Academy of Sciences on 2 groups of lactating cows in the first third of lactation, 50 cows in each, under untied conditions. The use of an innovative approach to the organization of feeding technology for highly productive dairy cows made it possible to increase the content of undegradable protein in the rumen from 24.3% to 33.4% in the diet. This made it possible not only to increase the milk productivity of cows, but also to improve the quality indicators of milk. It was established that with the use of the TEP-mix additive in the diet of the cows of the experimental group, the daily yield of milk from a cow increased by an average of 0.9 kg (from 27.8 kg to 28.7 kg), and in terms of basic fat content, by 2.6 kg (from 29.6 kg to 32.1 kg). According to the results of the chemical analysis of milk, it was found that the average content of the mass fraction of fat and protein in milk was also higher in the animals of the experimental group compared to the control by 0.20% (3.62% vs. 3.82%) and 0.23%, respectively (3.15% versus 3.38%). According to the results of the comparative multi-criteria analysis, it was noted that the productivity of dairy cows using the proposed method of organizing their feeding technology provides a significant advantage over the experimental version. It was established that for the experimental group the objective function according to the considered criteria is smaller and is 0.0112, while the objective function of the base variant was 6.43 times worse.