Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...

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

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 — ...

PENNOCK - 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 dairy ...

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 one of the milking robots, several cows are lined up, nose to tail, politely waiting their turn. The cows can get milked by robot whenever they like, which typically means more frequently than the ...

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 ...

New farming technology available to students Bristol County aggie features new cow milking machine Advances in farming to be used in agricultural school classes You've seen delivery robots, police ...