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 ...

This video takes you inside our nearly finished dairy barn as the final systems are put into place. It shows automated ...

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 — ...

WILTON, Wis. — In the hills of Monroe County, the 450-acre Witt Family Farm now includes a robot that milks their cows, which was the highlight of this year's Monroe County Dairy Breakfast. The area, ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Art Johansen wouldn't change a thing about his robotic milker purchase and barn retrofit. The Underwood dairyman has used the robotic system for about a year. During an Upper ...

The newest form of robot-milking barn design is called batch robots, Doug Reinemann says. With that configuration, cows are milked on a schedule by the robots rather than as the cows desire. EAU ...

ORONO, Maine (WABI) -Maine’s third robotic milking barn is underway on UMaine’s campus in Orono. UMaine’s Witter Farm is where students research and work in programs involving dairy and equine science ...

OLD TOWN, Maine (WABI) - After years of planning and hard work, the University of Maine has another complete project on Witter Farm. Their new robotic milking barn was built from the ground up and ...

MAHNOMEN, Minn. -The building isn't complete, but it's easy to see how Jim and Sue Steinmetz are developing their Mahnomen dairy farm into an operation geared for the future. Sue Steinmetz (right) ...