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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

ORONO, Maine (WABI) -Maine’s third robotic milking barn is underway on UMaine’s campus in Orono. UMaine’s Witter Farm is where students research and work in programs involving dairy and equine science ...

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 ...

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 ...

DECORAH, Iowa - Alan and Ruth Hageman have one regret about their robotic milking system and that is that they didn't put it in sooner. Alan, Ruth, Scott and Carla Hageman are enjoying their new ...

OLD TOWN, Maine (WABI) - After years of planning and hard work, the University of Maine has another complete project on Witter Farm. Their new robotic milking barn was built from the ground up and ...

A small but growing number of Wisconsin farmers are embracing robotic milking. Difficulties in maintaining a workforce, ongoing market swings and uncertainties over an updated Farm Bill are leading a ...