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 — ...

Robots and sensors can spot mastitis before symptoms appear, but keeping cows healthy still comes down to careful management.

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 ...

The cow enters this futuristic system and is recognised by an identification responder, which begins the process. The system can access historical data of each cow, knows the position of the teats and ...

Meet the Astronaut A4 milking system, a robotic milking contraption that allows cows to decided when they want to be milked. Here’s a flat-out bizarre video of the A4 in action, complete with an ...

(WFRV) – This year marks a milestone for the Knigge family in Omro, Wisconsin. It was 25 years ago they became the first dairy in the United States to milk their cows using robots. We take a look back ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Local dairy farmers and researchers from across the region met to discuss the future of robotic milking. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and the ...

The 35th annual Franklin Fall Farm Fun Fest is set for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 27 at Creekside Dairy, 4675 Fort McCord Road, Chambersburg, according to a community announcement. The free event, ...

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 ...