The conference room at Iowa's Dairy Center consists of windows for viewing cows in the freestall barn as well as cows being milked by the new Lely robotic milking system. Midwest Dairy Association has ...

The Lely robotic milking system uses sensors to position itself on a cow's udder before milking the anima. The system also washes and disinfects the cow's udders and itself. Kimm Anderson, St. Cloud ...

PELLA, Iowa -Toasting with fluted glasses of milk, Alexander van der Lely, CEO of Lely Group, and his 11-year-old son Laurens opened the company's new Pella production facility last week in front of ...

TILLAMOOK — Kurt Mizee stood and watched as the Lely Vector swept across the concrete barn floor at Tilla-Bay Farms, dispensing feed for 180 dairy cows. The self-driving robot — nicknamed “The Orca” ...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Monday that would allow schools the option of serving whole, 2%, 1% and ...

WATKINS, Minn. -- Even with lower milk prices in the last six to eight months, interest in robotic milking machines and automatic calf feeders remains high, according to one of the region's largest ...

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 ...

CRESTON, Neb. (KOLN) - At Larson Farms Inc., about 240 cows eat, rest and stand in line to be milked in a barn that is ran almost entirely by robots. The dairy operation is the fourth farm in Nebraska ...

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SOUTH HAVEN, Minn. • A lot has changed in the 70 years Janski Farms has operated. Everything but one building has been expanded, converted, newly constructed or upgraded to keep up with the times. And ...