Milking equipment and milking components thereof comprising of Milk transfer systems for interim heat removal from milk and transfer of milk within a milking system comprising stainless steel tubing, receivers for milk, milk pumps and variable frequency drives, plate coolers, milking units, drain valves and vacuum trap safety valves; Clean-in-place (CIP) and sanitation systems comprising rubber jetters and jetter storage holders that connect to milking units, sinks for dispensing water, water diverter valves, washer controls for dispensing chemicals and chemical preparations, and air injectors, all of the foregoing used for cleaning of milking units, milk transfer systems, and milk storage tanks; Cow traffic systems comprising power-operated crowd gates that keep minimum spaces between cows and push cows toward a milking stall, milking stalls that position the cows for milking, and animal sort gates for separating cows