And with an unabashed love of cows, Tim and Sara McNeil offer a fascinating blend of hi-tech innovation and hands-on animal husbandry. Almost three years after transitioning their herd from a 44-unit ...

MAHNOMEN, Minn. – Before Jim and Sue Steinmetz installed robotic milkers on their farm near here, they had just about given up. "We were going to exit on dairy cattle," Jim Steinmetz said. "We were ...

FAIRFIELD, Vt. (WCAX) - Robotic milking systems are opening a world of possibilities on Vermont farms. Since childhood, Ben Williams has milked cows using a manual milking system. After taking over ...

LISBON, N.D. - You may have seen robotic dairies where cows approach a machine to be milked when they want. You likely have seen "rotary" parlors that put more than 100 cows on a merry-go-round to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Beavers Dairy operation is located in Fillmore county near Shickley. Robots have been installed, and the operation started May 2nd. One of the amazing parts of the dairy operation is that there is ...

DUBLIN — A milk cow walks up to a robot. That’s not the beginning of a bad joke, but a way of producing milk that’s common in Europe and in some large-production U.S. states and is slowly catching on ...

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.

In an industry full of hard workers, the unrelenting grind of daily milking made dairy farming stand out even in agriculture. In its modern industrial form, the business was also colored by a grim ...