Patent ID: 8109233

Claim:
A method for collecting milk in a milk tank, said milk tank being connected to at least one milking station comprising means for milking a milking animal, comprising: milking a milking animal of a herd of milking animals by means of said milking station, establishing a quality parameter for the milk obtained from said milking animal during said milking, estimating a quality level of the total amount of milk in said milk tank, wherein the estimation is based at least on said quality parameter, collecting, in said milk tank, the milk obtained from said step of milking if the result from said estimation indicates that the quality of the total amount of milk, from a number of animals, in said milk tank would then result in a desired quality level, and predicting the milk quality of the milk in said milk tank when full, based on individual data for all milking animals of said herd, wherein said step of collecting is based also on said prediction.