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 ...

UNDERWOOD, Minn. - It's milking time all day long on Ardy Johanson's Underwood farm. His cows can be milked at any time, up to six times a day, thanks to robotic milkers. Johanson is the eighth ...

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 ...

Doug and Tina Suhr of Kasson hosted a delegation of dairy professionals at their farm on April 7. The couple have had around 3,000 visitors come to look at their robotic milking system since it was ...

The newest form of robot-milking barn design is called batch robots, Doug Reinemann says. With that configuration, cows are milked on a schedule by the robots rather than as the cows desire. EAU ...

The pandemic labor shortage has more Illinois dairy farmers buying robotic milkers. Professor Larry Tranel of Iowa State University says he’s never seen a labor ...

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 ...

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Rogue River Creamery is famous for its world‑champion Rogue River blue cheese. You might picture farmhands tending to and milking cows, but today, the milking is handled entirely by machines. Rather ...

SUGARCREEK ‒ Dairy farmers looking to sustain their operations into the future are adding robotic milking machines and hybrid cows to their operations. Family-owned Specht Farms Ltd. has already added ...