GOODRIDGE, Minn. - This story is about a robotic dairy barn. But don't be fooled by the fancy technology. It's really the story of a Minnesota farm family's commitment to a business they believe in ...

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 ...

With chores on the farm getting a lot more labor intensive, Dan and Emily Caughey of Ft. Ripley knew it was time to either ...

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 ...

DECLO — More than 1,000 dairy cows will move out of Heglar Creek Dairy’s conventional barn in September and into a new robotic milking barn where they will sleep on waterbeds. In the voluntary milking ...

Many dairy producers in Maine have trouble finding the workforce they need to maintain sustainable operations. Could robots step in? The University of Maine recently unveiled a robotic milking barn — ...

CALMAR, Iowa -Excavation and earth work have started for a new robotic milking center and free-stall barn expansion at the Dairy Center at Northeast Iowa Community College at Calmar. Dave Lawstuen, ...

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 ...

This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind ...

If tasked with envisioning the dairy barn of the future, most producers’ minds would likely go straight to technological ...

This robotic milker will soon begin operations at Heglar Creek Dairy in southern Idaho. RAFT RIVER, Idaho — Todd Webb is a fifth-generation dairy producer, having learned the business from his father, ...

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 ...