Legend Co Ltd history:
The story began in 1990s.
In 1993, Mr. NiuShengPing from Zhong Wei, Ning Xia bought three cattle with his own funds and started his transformation from farmer to stockbreeding worker.
In 1996, Mr. Deng Aiming in Guangzhou left the ocean shipping industry and joined the milking equipment industry.
After more than 10 years’, in 2006, NiuShengPing and his partners built up a dairy farming community. In addition to owning more than 100 dairy cowsMrNiu grouped more than 20 farmers together reaching a total of more than 600 cows. They set up a milking station producing 10 tons of milk daily. every day.
In 2008, ZhongweiSanyi Dairy Cattle Breeding Farmers' Professional Cooperative (Sanyi) was established, and a Herringbone milking machine was installed in the farm for milkproduction.
During this time, Mr. Deng Aiming was working at Alfa Laval Co.Ltd., an international milking equipment manufacturer, for more than 10 years. He transformed from an electrical engineer into a well-known milking equipment technical expert in the industry.
In 2009, Mr.Ulf Jaern, Mrs.Betty Jaern and Mr. Deng Aiming established Legend CoLtd in Foshan, focusing on the solution of milking equipment and supporting facilities in dairy farms in China and globally.
In 2010, NiuShengPing and Deng Aiming, two entrepreneurs with different stories but common goals, finally shake hands. Legend Co installed a Parallel 2X20 milking machine with MPC for Sanyi, which greatly improved milking efficiency and solved the problem of insufficient milking equipment’sas the expansion of number of cows in the community was significant. At the same time,it was equipped with electronic meters and software management system, whichsolved very well the problem of daily milk metering and payments for the farmers. This was the first set of parallel electronic milk meter equipment installed by Legend in China. Thanks tothis installation Legend accumulated many installations, after-sales service and opened the sales market of milking machines in Ningxia region.
In 2014, Legend reformed a 2X14 Herringbone milking machine for Sanyi, equipped with milk-meters and automatic take offs, arranged collection of the milk-meter data from the two sets of equipment’s into the same management system. This allowed Sanyis milk production system to improve greatly.
In 2014, NiuShengPing and his partners jointly established ZhongweiKangsheng Dairy Cattle Breeding Farmers' Professional cooperative, with a herd of 1,500 cattle. Legend provided a set of 2X25 parallel stalls with Afimilkmilk-meter equipment, milking 800 cows per day. Through the demonstration effect of theseequipment’stogether with strong recommendations of Mr. NiuShengPing, Legend installed 8 parlourswith similar equipment in Zhongwei region in 2015, occupying half of the milking equipment market in Zhongwei region.
In 2016, Mr. Niu Sheng Ping established RunHouYuan Dairy Cattle Breeding Farmers Professional Association The dairy cattle stock reached 2.000 animals. After 20 years of developmentMr. Niu Sheng Ping became ownerof a large modern dairy farm and his daily production of fresh milk reached 40 tons. Legend provided a parallel parlour 2X30 parallel with Afimilkmilkmeter equipment, which could meet the daily milking production of 1.200 cows. This equipment was the first set of milking equipment installed by Legend with underground tunnel design. Thanks to the design of underground tunnel, the environmental health of the dairy was greatly improved, and theservicelife of the equipment was prolonged due to the clean environment in the tunnel.
In 2019, RunHouYuanDairywas expanded, and the dairy herd reached 4,000, with daily production of fresh milk reaching more than 70 tons. Legend provided the first rotary installed in China, a 72 units rotary milking machine with platform from TDM, Italy, equipped with AfimilkHerd management system, improving milking efficiency. Afimilk pedometers was configured to monitor the optimum moment for insemination of heifers and cows.State of the art equipment installation and top after-sales service, gave Legend valuable experience of rotary milking installations, maintenance experience and herd management software knowledge as well as a very well trained and educated technicians for future customer support.
In 2021 thanks to the demonstration function of the first 72units rotary milking parlour installed atRunHouYuan, Legend has installed four morerotary milking machines in Jingyang, Shaanxi, Wuzhon and in Ningxia. Catching up with the advanced global development of milking technology.
So far, the story of growing together continues, cattle groups in RunHouYuanare expanding and production as well as management is developing rapidly.