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 ...

With chores on the farm getting a lot more labor intensive, Dan and Emily Caughey of Ft. Ripley knew it was time to either ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daylight saving time comes to an end in the early morning hours of November 2. Residents are reminded to set their clocks back one hour, meaning sunrise and sunset will happen about an hour earlier ...

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 ...

PLAINVIEW, Neb. (AP) - Robotic dairy operations may seem like a thing of the future. In fact, they were in Nebraska until last month. That’s when the Demerath Farms dairy near here made state history ...

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 new barn, which have ...

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 ...