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 — ...

CALMAR, Iowa -Dairy producers who milk with robots or who will soon shared their experiences at the recent Midwest Dairy School for Exploring Robotics at the Dairy Center at Calmar. Mark and Sandra ...

WILTON, Wis. — In the hills of Monroe County, the 450-acre Witt Family Farm now includes a robot that milks their cows, which was the highlight of this year's Monroe County Dairy Breakfast. The area, ...

This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind ...

UTICA — In a small room inside Gary Kieffer's dairy barn, a cow walks into a metal box. It's milking time on the farm. Humans are not required. A robotic arm swings below the cow's udder and two small ...

David and Natalie Nelson have a dairy on land that was homesteaded in 1888 by David’s great-grandmother. When they built a new dairy barn five years ago they put in robotics for milking, not only to ...

ORONO, Maine (WABI) -Maine’s third robotic milking barn is underway on UMaine’s campus in Orono. UMaine’s Witter Farm is where students research and work in programs involving dairy and equine science ...

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 ...

The $6 million investment in 40 robots at his Mepunga East property, near Warrnambool, is on track to deliver a return in ...