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 ...

Women in the Field: Here is Marlane Williams’ journey to getting back to what she cares about most, owning a dairy farm. Marlane Willams grew up on a family farm near Renick, Mo., just north of ...

How cows are grouped can play a major role in the success of a robotic milking system. Smart grouping keeps cows moving ...

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 ...

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 ...

Craig Witt and his family are no longer tied to a rigid milking schedule. “We don’t have to get up for a 5:30 milking anymore,” he said. The human milking routine has been replaced by a robotic milker ...

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 Tyrone dairy farm has pumped £750,000 into transforming its 300-acre business near Omagh, which has included transforming its traditional milking parlour into a fully automated robotic system and ...

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, ...

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 ...