This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind ...

Chad Kieffer, a third-generation farmer from Utica, Minnesota, has five milkers for his herd of 350 cows. The milkers are squat, patient, persistent workers. They hum around the mooing cows. They are ...

Running a dairy farm used to be a rather hands-on experience, with the farmer required to be around every few hours to milk the cows, feed them, do all the veterinarian tasks that the farmer can do ...

Many dairy producers in Maine have trouble finding the workforce they need to maintain sustainable operations. Could robots step in? The University of Maine recently unveiled a robotic milking barn — ...

WILTON, Wis. — In the hills of Monroe County, the 450-acre Witt Family Farm now includes a robot that milks their cows, which was the highlight of this year's Monroe County Dairy Breakfast. The area, ...

PLAINVIEW, Minn. — Robotic milking may be the future of dairy farming but it won't make dairy farming easy. “We’ve been through some really tough times,” said Chad Schumacher, operator of Schumacher ...

DECLO — More than 1,000 dairy cows will move out of Heglar Creek Dairy’s conventional barn in September and into a new robotic milking barn where they will sleep on waterbeds. In the voluntary milking ...

The 37-year-old has managed the dairy for his parents since March 2020 and installed eight robotic milking units in May after recognising the technology was essential for the farm’s viability going ...

Sign up for the Concord Monitor's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Sign up Automation of the workplace can make life easier. Just ask Walker Fitch ...

A Tyrone dairy farm has pumped £750,000 into transforming its 300-acre business near Omagh, which has included transforming ...

Members of a Wisconsin dairy farm have brought a lawsuit against BouMatic Robotics claiming that the company failed to warn farmers about defects in their automated milking robot equipment in ...

A County Tyrone dairy farm has boosted its annual milk output by 500,000 litres. The increase follows a £750,000 investment, supported by Ulster Bank, to modernise and expand the 300-acre farm near ...