Introduction

Making farmers' lives easier by creating the future of farming through innovative and valued solutions

As an international family business in the agricultural sector, we spend every day in the pursuit of making farmers’ lives easier with innovative products and tailored services. We offer solutions for nearly all activities on a dairy farm: from milking and feeding, to caring and cleaning. We provide advice on how to intelligently organize a dairy farm with the use of smart management systems. Our vision, along with the needs and demands of our clients are what drive and inspire us.

Over 75 years of farming innovation. In 1948, brothers Cornelis and Arij van der Lely introduced the finger wheel rake to the market, one of our first inventions that made a substantial change in the traditional way of working on the farm. There were many more innovations through the years, designed with one purpose in mind: making life easier and working together for a sustainable, profitable and enjoyable future in farming.

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Low angle image of the Lely North American headquarters exterior in Pella, Iowa. There are clouds in a blue sky in the background and a black and white cow statue in the foreground.
Close-up shot of a hand placing a glass milk bottle with a Lely logo to the right of another glass milk bottle with a Lely logo on it. Both bottles are resting on a table covered with a black tablecloth. There is a red cow figurine placed behind the two milk bottles.
Lely North America production facility. There are Lely milking robots and automated feeding systems in various states of manufature in the foreground and shelves with machine parts and boxes in the background.

Innovative solutions for dairy farming since 1948

In 1948, it all began with the dream of two brothers in Maassluis. Today, we are innovative leaders in designing and manufacturing automated systems for dairy farmers around the world, with the goal of excelling in sustainable milk production to feed the world.

Every day we help customers all over the world make choices about how they set up and run their farms. Lely supports farmers by providing expert advice and innovative solutions that contribute to efficient farm management, present and future.

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Farmers all over the world make choices about how they set up and run their farms. Every day, we help them make the best choices for themselves and their farms. We do this by providing advice and innovative solutions that contribute to efficient farm management. For sustainable milk and meat production. Present and future.