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 ...

A robotic dairy farm might sound like an idea straight out of a science fiction novel to some, but for Darleen Sichley, it’s actually old news. “I think most people have that picture in their mind of, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At one of the milking robots, several cows are lined up, nose to tail, politely waiting their turn. The cows can get milked by robot whenever they like, which typically means more frequently than the ...

Would you spend the best part of a million dollars on a robot? Dairy farmers are doing that across Australia as a dozen farms have gone high-tech with the latest agricultural mechanisation. "It is the ...

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 ...

PLAINVIEW — Robotic dairy operations may seem like a thing of the future. In fact, they were in Nebraska until last month. That's when Demerath Farms near Plainview made state history when it began ...

A small but growing number of Wisconsin farmers are embracing robotic milking. Difficulties in maintaining a workforce, ongoing market swings and uncertainties over an updated Farm Bill are leading a ...

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 ...