How cows are grouped can play a major role in the success of a robotic milking system. Smart grouping keeps cows moving ...

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 ...

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 ...

Women in the Field: Here is Marlane Williams’ journey to getting back to what she cares about most, owning a dairy farm. Marlane Willams grew up on a family farm near Renick, Mo., just north of ...

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 — ...

Next year, the largest robotic dairy farm in the United States will go online in Michigan. The future is here. DeLaval International, a large Swedish producer of dairy and other farming equipment, is ...

Ulster Bank backs £750k investment to expand and transform 300-acre dairy farm (Image: Supplied) The project included upgrading the traditional milking parlour to a fully automated robotic system, ...

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 ...

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 ...

FRESNO Bill Daugherty rises at 3 a.m. to start milking 132 cows on the farm that has been in his family since 1876. His 89-year-old father Martin joins in the morning milking at the double-4 ...

The dairy industry is constantly in transition, as is the situation across the entire agricultural world. In order for smaller unit farms to survive, often they have to seek alternate solutions to ...

Amanda Freund remembers the exact moment when her uncle, Ben Freund, raised the idea of bringing a robotic milking system to the family’s dairy farm. “It was January, 2015, and we were in the office, ...