DUBUQUE, Iowa - Larry Tranel, Iowa State University Extension dairy specialist, sees robotic or automatic milking systems transforming the dairy industry in the coming years. "Installation of robotic ...

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 ...

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 ...

FAIRFIELD, Vt. (WCAX) - Robotic milking systems are opening a world of possibilities on Vermont farms. Since childhood, Ben Williams has milked cows using a manual milking system. After taking over ...

MENDON — The cows are lined up for milking at the Shupe Dairy Farm north of Mendon. Rod Shupe keeps watch as the cows move through one by one, but he's no longer doing the milking. That's left up to a ...

NEOSHO - Dawn Gault spends a lot of time with her calves. She cherishes the feeling of nurturing the young cows and watching them grow, and revels in the stillness of the barn late at night, after all ...

FAIRFIELD, Vt. (WPTZ) — From robotic milking to virtual fencing, new technologies are starting to transform the way Vermont farmers work — potentially cutting labor, lowering costs and boosting ...