While cows are dry for the spring calving herd, farmers should be servicing the milking machine and bulk tank before the busy ...
The dairy industry is constantly in transition, as is the situation across the entire agricultural world. In order for smaller unit farms to survive, often they have to seek alternate solutions to ...
At a farm in Columbia County that traces its roots to 1950, robots milk the cows. Advertisement Article continues below this ad The animals follow the scent of food through an enclosed route to the ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Dairy farming has been part of agriculture for thousands of years. This picture from the early 1900s shows the use of ...
The arm reaching for the milk-laden udders of the cow is not human. It’s the arm of a robot, metallic and shiny, gliding along the cow’s belly, then calibrating back and forth before lifting rubbery ...
Dairy farmer Rodney Elliott stands in a small room where part of his $12 million robotic milking system is doing its job. The robotic system is located inside a huge new barn on Elliott’s farm ...
Next year, the largest robotic dairy farm in the United States will go online in Michigan. The future is here. DeLaval International, a large Swedish producer of dairy and other farming equipment, is ...
Matthew Stuber is affiliated with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Gary Kazmer receives funding from USDA. Shalabh Gupta is a member of IEEE and ASME. Steven Zinn receives funding ...