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 ...

WILTON, Wis. — In the hills of Monroe County, the 450-acre Witt Family Farm now includes a robot that milks their cows, which was the highlight of this year's Monroe County Dairy Breakfast. The area, ...

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 ...

Agricultural robots assist farmers with precision tasks without replacing human workers, enhancing efficiency and ...

VALLEY FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rensselaer County (CCERC) is set to host its fourth-annual “Farm Day Out” event. The yearly event highlights a local farm and invites ...

Craig Witt and his family are no longer tied to a rigid milking schedule. “We don’t have to get up for a 5:30 milking anymore,” he said. The human milking routine has been replaced by a robotic milker ...

CAMBRIDGE, Wis. — There are 6,553 dairy farms in Wisconsin as of January of this year, but that number is down by a third from 2014. One reason for farmers leaving the industry is the lack of people ...

One member of Congress has a foot in both politics and dairy. Republican Representative David Valadao of California has his own farm, AgDay’s Clinton Griffiths reports. Valadao’s farm consists of two ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. ACROSS MIDWESTERN FARMS, if Girish Chowdhary has his way, farmers will someday release beagle-sized robots into their fields like a pack of hounds ...

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 ...