Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...

Robots have arrived at Bill and Carol Shuler's farm near Baroda, Mich., and life has taken a turn for the better. "It absolutely changes your lifestyle. It gives you a life!" says Bill Shuler. For ...

At one of the milking robots, several cows are lined up, nose to tail, politely waiting their turn. The cows can get milked by robot whenever they like, which typically means more frequently than the ...

For Tyrone Eoin McCaffrey, the move to robotic milking was about more than boosting output - it was about building a dairy ...

There is a hole in the argument that American workers will replace immigrants. For many jobs, the cheaper and more likely ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. – When Doug Reinemann began working in the 1990s as a specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Division of Extension, farmers were moving from pipelines to parlors. And from there ...

GLASGOW, Ky. — The cows shuffle in and take their places in the stalls, but there are no milking stools and no buckets here, just cows being milked — by robots. Malvern Hills Dairy at the Mattingly ...