The purpase of this work was to carry out the diagnosis of automation in the dairy farming in Southern Minas Gerais, emphasizing the existing automation types, improvement of the productive process in milk properties with automation implementation, and the difficulties faced for its implantation. The methodology used was based on quality research by means of exploratory study The results indicated that several options of equipment exists that automate processes in milk production. The study also allowed the verification that the great difficulty faced by the producers to automate the milk properties is the high cost of the equipment, and that the automation reality is only for the greatest milk producers.
Agriculture; dairy cattle; the implementation technology
