Chad Kieffer, a third-generation farmer from Utica, Minnesota, has five milkers for his herd of 350 cows. The milkers are squat, patient, persistent workers. They hum around the mooing cows. They are ...

POSTVILLE, Iowa -Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Dairy Team will discuss robotic milking and low-cost parlor systems during December meetings. Meetings in northeast Iowa are Dec. 3, at ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa -Dairy farmers who have installed low cost milking parlors or automatic milking systems are satisfied with their decisions, according to two surveys conducted by Iowa State University ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

BAZETTA — Jessamyn Moon of Warren says that having grown up in the farming areas of Johnston and Green townships in northern Trumbull County has given her an appreciation for the hard-working people ...

High-yielding herds milking through robots and running heifers as a separate milking group are now using a bovine pheromone to further reduce stress levels at first calving. Despite already operating ...

BOARDMAN, Ore. — Eight minutes. That’s how long it takes to milk a cow at Threemile Canyon Farms in Boardman, according to Adlai Schuler, the veterinarian and livestock operations manager. From those ...