WILTON, Wis. — In the hills of Monroe County, the 450-acre Witt Family Farm now includes a robot that milks their cows, which was the highlight of this year's Monroe County Dairy Breakfast. The area, ...

TILLAMOOK, Ore. — Kurt Mizee stood and watched as the Lely Vector swept across the concrete barn floor at Tilla-Bay Farms, dispensing feed for 180 dairy cows. The self-driving robot — nicknamed “The ...

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. The Drumgoon Dairy in Lake Norden, S.D., is one of only a ...

Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...

Farmers, families, and industry leaders from across the country are gathering at the Champlain Valley Exposition for the ...

LAKE NORDEN, South Dakota — Rodney Elliott had no plans to include robotic milking units as part of his family’s dairy when they first immigrated to Lake Norden, South Dakota from Northern Ireland in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UNIONVILLE — The 550 cows at Keith and Deanne Marshall’s Unionville dairy farm would seem to live an enviable life. They eat when they want. They get milked when they want. They have high-energy ...