GOODRIDGE, Minn. - This story is about a robotic dairy barn. But don't be fooled by the fancy technology. It's really the story of a Minnesota farm family's commitment to a business they believe in ...

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 ...

Many dairy producers in Maine have trouble finding the workforce they need to maintain sustainable operations. Could robots step in? The University of Maine recently unveiled a robotic milking barn — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

David and Natalie Nelson have a dairy on land that was homesteaded in 1888 by David’s great-grandmother. When they built a new dairy barn five years ago they put in robotics for milking, not only to ...

Chris Hill crouches beside a Holstein on the Briggs Dairy Farm in Vergennes to explain exactly how a robot milks a cow. Without any human prodding, the animal strolls into a barn chute and starts ...

CALMAR, Iowa -Excavation and earth work have started for a new robotic milking center and free-stall barn expansion at the Dairy Center at Northeast Iowa Community College at Calmar. Dave Lawstuen, ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Art Johansen wouldn't change a thing about his robotic milker purchase and barn retrofit. The Underwood dairyman has used the robotic system for about a year. During an Upper ...

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 ...

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 ...