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 ...

-- Joe and Cindy Doak have been running their dairy farm in Mannington for 25 years. This past February, their farm received a boost in the form of a Lely robotic milker.No longer will anyone at Doak ...

MEDFORD, Minn. — Between the video on manure application and presentation on calculating manure application rates, county feedlot officers toured Steele County's first robotic dairy. Rick, Cathy and ...

Here at Weiss Centennial Farm we are going to remember June Dairy Month 2011 and celebrate it for years to come. June 14 “Johann” began working for us. Johann, a very 21st century LELY automated ...

Ashley Farr of Farr Farm in Richmond programs his Lely Astronaut robotic milker while a cow is milked by the machine. Farr bought the machine used last year. Photo by Andrea Suozzo Inside the barn at ...

If cow milking recalls a bucolic image of a farmer strolling out to the barn with a bucket and stool, then the 21st century will be a disappointment to those raised on James Herriot stories. A case in ...

OSHKOSH, Wis.—Rural Omro dairy farmer Pete Knigge ventured a bit into the unknown when he purchased the nation’s first robotic milking system for his herd of cows 10 years ago. He liked it so much ...

CRESTON, Neb. (KOLN) - At Larson Farms Inc., about 240 cows eat, rest and stand in line to be milked in a barn that is ran almost entirely by robots. The dairy operation is the fourth farm in Nebraska ...

For at least the last century, we’ve seen fewer farmers using more labor-saving tools to produce more food. This should be no surprise — just about every field works this way. And yet I was surprised ...

PLAINVIEW, Minn. — Robotic milking may be the future of dairy farming but it won't make dairy farming easy. “We’ve been through some really tough times,” said Chad Schumacher, operator of Schumacher ...