PENNOCK, Minn. - 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 ...

In the cold, pre-dawn hours, what farmer crawling out of bed doesn’t wish he could just press a button and have some electronic machine milk the cows? As incredible as it may seem, that day may not be ...

GOVAN — Automated milking utilizing the latest computer technology drew a large crowd of dairy farmers and interested dairy industry professionals to Heatwole Dairy Farm in Govan on June 26. Don and ...

MENDON — The cows are lined up for milking at the Shupe Dairy Farm north of Mendon. Rod Shupe keeps watch as the cows move through one by one, but he's no longer doing the milking. That's left up to a ...

“The first thing it does is ID her with a radio ID tag,” Robert O’Toole said as one of his 65 Holstein dairy cows entered the milking stall of his robotic milking system. The system’s computer ...

ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY — At Ingleside Dairy Farm, robotic technologies installed last year are fueling an evolution in how the Leech family operates, while nationally they are contributing to a revolution ...

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 ...

Often in darkness, he heads to the barn, but instead of going to the milking parlor, he heads to his office. He calls up a program on his computer to check on the overnight data for milk production of ...

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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 ...

MENDON, Ill. - The cows are lined up for milking at the Shupe Dairy Farm north of Mendon. Rod Shupe keeps watch as the cows move through one by one, but he's no longer doing the milking. That's left ...