Lavern Schlabach, right, talks about hybrid cows during a tour of his D&S Dairy on Tuesday in Sugar Creek Township. His ProCROSS cows were showcased as part of a multi-farm tour geared toward dairy ...

With eight robotic milkers and cows voluntarily visiting them up to four times a day, Arjan van Adrichem and his family have ...

Doug and Tina Suhr of Kasson hosted a delegation of dairy professionals at their farm on April 7. The couple have had around 3,000 visitors come to look at their robotic milking system since it was ...

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 ...

At dairy farms in Western Australia, cows now enter the robotic milking system voluntarily. A solar‑powered setup keeps the ...

PIPESTONE, Minn. — Installing robotic milkers is a sizable investment and a big management change for a dairy farm. University of Minnesota Extension dairy specialist Jim Salfer and others looked into ...

See how dairy cows are gently trained to use a robotic milking system with simple incentives. The process highlights patience ...

Jason Nunes doesn’t let his plans to develop a robotic dairy during the next year or so stand in the way of babying his cows now. Water technology that he worked with specialists to customize have ...

TILLAMOOK, Ore. — Kurt Mizee stood and watched as the Lely Vector swept across the concrete barn floor at Tilla-Bay Farms, dispensing feed for 180 dairy cows. The self-driving robot — nicknamed “The ...

JANESVILLE — Decorate a cow cut out, check out robotic milkers and chow down on all you can eat pancakes at the upcoming Rock County Dairy Breakfast. It takes place at Morton Dairy Farm, 15739 W.