ARLINGTON — A robot helps feed Nick Van Dam’s dairy cows. The red-and-white automatic feed pusher moves along the feeding alley at Van Dam’s dairy, a nearly 200-acre farm in an urban growth area ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Dairy farming has been part of agriculture for thousands of years. This picture from the early 1900s shows the use of ...

Next year, the largest robotic dairy farm in the United States will go online in Michigan. The future is here. DeLaval International, a large Swedish producer of dairy and other farming equipment, is ...

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 ...

Stensland Family Farms, which sits in the northwest corner of Iowa, has 170 dairy cows, but nobody milks them. Robots do. Aided by sensors, lasers, and data collection, automated technology is ...

Previously published results suggested that liner slip (air admission between the teat and liner) was the most important milking machine factor affecting new intramammary infection. The earlier ...