Efficiency isn't the only benefit Sammy and Pam Jones get from the new robotic milking machines they use on their dairy farm. The machines also give the couple a degree of freedom rare in the ...

Every dairy farmer's dream is playing out at the Gruenbaum family farm in Plain City. The cows milk themselves. No kidding. The farm is the first in Ohio to install robotic milking machines that allow ...

ARLINGTON — A robot helps feed Nick Van Dam’s dairy cows. The red-and-white automatic feed pusher moves along the feeding alley at Van Dam’s dairy, a nearly 200-acre farm in an urban growth area ...

DeLaval International, a large Swedish producer of dairy and other farming equipment, is installing 24 robotic voluntary – meaning the cows approach the stations on their own – milking machines at TDI ...

At a farm in Columbia County that traces its roots to 1950, robots milk the cows. Advertisement Article continues below this ad The animals follow the scent of food through an enclosed route to the ...

Holsteins, the black-and-white-spotted dairy cattle, are known for their long, lanky limbs and calm temperaments. America's dairy farms are doing more with less. There are fewer dairy cows today than ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --At dairy farms across Minnesota, robots are moving in. Over the past couple years, dozens of dairy farmers have turned to "robotic milking" as a way to help their business. The ...

In the mid-1970s, the average American dairy farm had about 25 cows. Today, many operations have more than 3,000 — a number that was almost unheard of 25 years ago. Managing large herds efficiently ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Dairy farming has been part of agriculture for thousands of years. This picture from the early 1900s shows the use of ...

Next year, the largest robotic dairy farm in the United States will go online in Michigan. The future is here. DeLaval International, a large Swedish producer of dairy and other farming equipment, is ...