WAUKON, Iowa — Once Mark and Sandra Ehrhardt decided to put in a robotic milker on their Waukon dairy farm, Sandra began compiling a business plan for lenders. They worked with Tom Anderson, a farm ...

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, ...

MAHNOMEN, Minn. -The building isn't complete, but it's easy to see how Jim and Sue Steinmetz are developing their Mahnomen dairy farm into an operation geared for the future. Sue Steinmetz (right) ...

Today, the Sloans milk a closed herd of 160 pedigree Holsteins (180 head in total) through three Lely A3 Astronaut robots. The 234-acre farm is run by Andrew alongside his youngest son, Alistair, now ...

Discover how a Co Tyrone dairy farm boosted yields with robotics, genetics and nutrition at its open day on 28 January.

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 ...

With eight robotic milkers and cows voluntarily visiting them up to four times a day, Arjan van Adrichem and his family have ...

Technological advancements are constantly changing sectors of the economy, and agriculture is no different. While innovations like the Haber-Bosch process and the cotton gin forever changed the ...

“Flying J” sauntered out of her stall and moved slowly to the front of the barn. The cow waited patiently for a few minutes for a gate to swing open. When it did, she stepped through the gate and into ...