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

Lavern Schlabach, right, talks about hybrid cows during a tour of his D&S Dairy on Tuesday in Sugar Creek Township. His ProCROSS cows were showcased as part of a multi-farm tour geared toward dairy ...

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 ...

The dairy industry is constantly in transition, as is the situation across the entire agricultural world. In order for smaller unit farms to survive, often they have to seek alternate solutions to ...

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 ...

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 shortage on dairy farms like he has ...

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 ...

The 37-year-old has managed the dairy for his parents since March 2020 and installed eight robotic milking units in May after recognising the technology was essential for the farm’s viability going ...

Cows line up to enter robotic milking machines, Oct. 22, at the Averill family dairy in Tillamook, Ore. To many, this scenario represents the future of farming. As labor costs increase and the labor ...

LA CROSSE, Wis.LA CROSSE, Wis. — On a dairy farm in rural Eyota, Minnesota, a day-old calf wobbled up to a robotic feeding stall. An RFID reader scanned the tag clipped to the calf’s ear and measured ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) - On a dairy farm in rural Eyota, Minnesota, a day-old calf wobbled up to a robotic feeding stall. An RFID reader scanned the tag clipped to the calf’s ear and measured the amount ...