The conference room at Iowa's Dairy Center consists of windows for viewing cows in the freestall barn as well as cows being milked by the new Lely robotic milking system. Midwest Dairy Association has ...

For dairy farmers using robots for unpleasant tasks, it means they can focus more on the enjoyable aspects of the job, such ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Chris Hill crouches beside a Holstein on the Briggs Dairy Farm in Vergennes to explain exactly how a robot milks a cow. Without any human prodding, the animal strolls into a barn chute and starts ...

DECLO — At this dairy, cows are milked, pampered and fed by robots. Heglar Creek Dairy’s robotic barn has been up and running for three months, and the cows are already milking it for all it’s worth.

GOODRIDGE, Minn. - This story is about a robotic dairy barn. But don't be fooled by the fancy technology. It's really the story of a Minnesota farm family's commitment to a business they believe in ...

Dairy farmer Rodney Elliott stands in a small room where part of his $12 million robotic milking system is doing its job. The robotic system is located inside a huge new barn on Elliott’s farm ...

KENT, Ill. (AP) - Days start early for 29-year-old dairy farmer John Lawfer. Often in darkness, he heads to the barn, but instead of going to the milking parlor, he heads to his office. He calls up a ...

EDGEFIELD, S.C. (AP) - Hickory Hill Milk in Edgefield County has a new robotic milking facility that provides one main benefit: cow comfort. The new facility on the farm has two robotic milkers and a ...

ORONO, Maine (WABI) -Maine’s third robotic milking barn is underway on UMaine’s campus in Orono. UMaine’s Witter Farm is where students research and work in programs involving dairy and equine science ...

PENNOCK, Minn. - In 1953, Dolores and the late Don Youngren bought six spring heifers and started milking cows on their rural Pennock farm. Today, there are 380 cows on the third-generation Youngren ...