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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ned-Tex Dairy's journey exemplifies the transformative power of technology in agriculture, paving the way for others to ...

Benjamin Vagg has led his family’s dairy operation into the robotic age as part of a carefully planned succession strategy at ...

Colton Brodt, left, with Barrett, Amanda and Blakely, raise dairy cows using robotic milking systems in Humboldt County, Calif. FERNDALE, Calif. — Dairyman Colton Brodt says the robots working at his ...

Salfer has been involved on farm research projects studying robotic milking systems and automatic calf feeders. The focus of ...

Automation of the workplace can make life easier. Just ask Walker Fitch about the downright luxurious change it brought to his life as a dairy farmer. “I get up at 5 now,” Fitch bragged during a ...

MADISON — A spotted black cow shuffles toward the stainless steel crate in the center of a dairy barn and eases into it through an open gate. As the door swings shut, a robotic arm moves into action, ...

Meet the Astronaut A4 milking system, a robotic milking contraption that allows cows to decided when they want to be milked. Here’s a flat-out bizarre video of the A4 in action, complete with an ...