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 ...
POSTVILLE, Iowa -Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Dairy Team will discuss robotic milking and low-cost parlor systems during December meetings. Meetings in northeast Iowa are Dec. 3, at ...
PENNOCK - In 1953, Dolores and the late Don Youngren bought six spring heifers and started milking cows on their rural Pennock farm. Today, there are 380 cows on the third-generation Youngren dairy ...
DUBUQUE, Iowa -Dairy farmers who have installed low cost milking parlors or automatic milking systems are satisfied with their decisions, according to two surveys conducted by Iowa State University ...
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 ...
Sign up for the Concord Monitor's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Sign up Automation of the workplace can make life easier. Just ask Walker Fitch ...
PLAINVIEW, Minn. — Robotic milking may be the future of dairy farming but it won't make dairy farming easy. “We’ve been through some really tough times,” said Chad Schumacher, operator of Schumacher ...
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 ...
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