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 ...

The “toddlers” at the Dallam family farm outside Bel Air have a new toy. “We did have it a little more cleaned up for the politicians. It?s like a toddler?s playground,” said Kate Dallam, surrounded ...

PENNOCK - In 1953, Dolores and the late Don Youngren bought six spring heifers and started milking cows on their rural Pennock farm. Today, there are 380 cows on the third-generation Youngren dairy ...

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 ...

New farming technology available to students Bristol County aggie features new cow milking machine Advances in farming to be used in agricultural school classes You've seen delivery robots, police ...

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 ...

BUFFALO CENTER, Iowa -- Augie and Mike Baumann's approach to milking their 240-head dairy cow herd is strictly hands-off. The father and son's cows walk, unprompted, into a computer-controlled robotic ...

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, ...

WILLMAR, Minn. -- Marcia Endres and Jim Salfer may have seen the future of robotic milking machines, and the future looks like farmers will have to stay near their pagers. There are about 1,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...