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 ...

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 ...

Dairy robots can more than pay for themselves but only in the right farm structure, writes Martin O'Sullivan A major advantage of robotic milking systems is the potential to increase milk yield In ...

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 ...

A Saskatchewan dairy farm is using high-tech robotics and a computer program to milk the cows while the farmers sleep. Eli Waldner, dairy boss for the McGee Hutterite Colony near Rosetown, Sask., told ...

Dairy farms with indoor feeding systems are well adapted to robotic milking but automatic milking units can be successfully integrated into grazing systems too. At Handfield Farm, Congleton, average ...

The choice of milking systems should be directly related to the number of cows currently being milked and the herd size envisaged for the future. Larger herd sizes will lead to a greater focus on time ...

With the help of robots and a little training, 150 cows on the H.E. Heindel & Sons dairy farm are practically milking themselves. One of seven farms in the country that are experimenting with robotic ...

Farmers should make regular cleanliness checks on automatic milking systems to reduce mastitis by controlling pathogenic bacteria. Torben Bennedsgaard says that farmers using automatic milking systems ...

All jokes aside, robotic milking is easing the workload of Irish dairy farmers A cow wanders into a stall, is scanned by a laser and milked without any farmer present. It may read like the start of a ...