One member of Congress has a foot in both politics and dairy. Republican Representative David Valadao of California has his own farm, AgDay’s Clinton Griffiths reports. Valadao’s farm consists of two ...

A $6 million robotic rotary dairy in southwest Victoria is the only one of its kind in the southern hemisphere – and it’s ...

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 — ...

The “toddlers” at the Dallam family farm outside Bel Air have a new toy. “We did have it a little more cleaned up for the politicians. It?s like a toddler?s playground,” said Kate Dallam, surrounded ...

Cows line up to enter robotic milking machines, Oct. 22, at the Averill family dairy in Tillamook, Ore. To many, this scenario represents the future of farming. As labor costs increase and the labor ...

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 ...

FERNDALE, Calif. — Dairyman Colton Brodt says the robots working at his dairy keep the cows happy. “We average right around 2.5 milkings per day,” he said. “It is a guided flow system so that cows can ...

The agricultural robots market offers opportunities in automation for enhanced productivity, driven by population growth and ...

David and Natalie Nelson have a dairy on land that was homesteaded in 1888 by David’s great-grandmother. When they built a new dairy barn five years ago they put in robotics for milking, not only to ...

Mr van Adrichem, 36, has won the Innovation Award at the Cadbury Farmer of the Year Awards for his pioneering use of ...

Doug and Tina Suhr of Kasson hosted a delegation of dairy professionals at their farm on April 7. The couple have had around 3,000 visitors come to look at their robotic milking system since it was ...

A small but growing number of Wisconsin farmers are embracing robotic milking. Difficulties in maintaining a workforce, ongoing market swings and uncertainties over an updated Farm Bill are leading a ...