Chad Kieffer, a third-generation farmer from Utica, Minnesota, has five milkers for his herd of 350 cows. The milkers are squat, patient, persistent workers. They hum around the mooing cows. They are ...

Robots and sensors can spot mastitis before symptoms appear, but keeping cows healthy still comes down to careful management.

New farming technology available to students Bristol County aggie features new cow milking machine Advances in farming to be used in agricultural school classes You've seen delivery robots, police ...

Dairy cows are descendants of the giant herbivore the Auroch, an animal that evolved to consume grasses and fibers and one of the few species whose choice of food is partially to feed the microflora ...

UTICA — In a small room inside Gary Kieffer's dairy barn, a cow walks into a metal box. It's milking time on the farm. Humans are not required. A robotic arm swings below the cow's udder and two small ...

In 1983, when he was 14 years old, Dennis Roehl went to his first Wisconsin Farm Progress Days show. “I thought it was the greatest thing ever,” Roehl recalled. Now, 39 years later, he’s hosting ...

From predicting lameness to estimating milk production months ahead, artificial intelligence is starting to change how dairy farms use their herd data.

AND SOME OF THEIR NEW TECHNOLOGY. 88 COWS HAVE RETURNED TO BRUNTON DAIRY TO A MUCH BIGGER BARN. IT STANDS IN THAT SAME SPOT WHERE THE ORIGINAL BARN WENT UP IN FLAMES NEARLY 15 MONTHS AGO. DAIRY ...