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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

CLEMSON — Dairymen are a hardy lot known for tending their herds through the worst weather and toughest conditions. But even the hardiest dairyman can be forgiven for breaking out his handkerchief and ...

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, ...

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 ...

Janet Stiles Fulton has milked a lot of cows in her life, so giving that job up to robots two years ago was not only a big change for her, it was unusual even for Washington County, Maryland's leading ...

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 ...

DEARING - For the Holstein dairy cows at Hillcrest Farms, life is like living in a spa, thanks to the robotics installed less than a year ago. The black-and-white beauties wander at will under ...