DECORAH, Iowa - It's been almost a year since Matt and Jolene Nierling started milking with a GEA MIone robotic milking system on their farm north of Decorah. As the first North American installation, ...

PIPESTONE, Minn. — Installing robotic milkers is a sizable investment and a big management change for a dairy farm. University of Minnesota Extension dairy specialist Jim Salfer and others looked into ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. The Drumgoon Dairy in Lake Norden, S.D., is one of only a ...

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 ...

Fisher & Thompson will have exclusive rights to sell and service Lely robotic milking equipment in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and eastern and central Pennsylvania, mostly south of Interstate 80.