The conference room at Iowa's Dairy Center consists of windows for viewing cows in the freestall barn as well as cows being milked by the new Lely robotic milking system. Midwest Dairy Association has ...

Dairy machinery manufacturer Lely has unveiled its new Astronaut A5 milking robot and an enhanced Juno feed pusher. The Astronaut A5 milking robot now comes with an “arm” that follows a cow’s ...

Here at Weiss Centennial Farm we are going to remember June Dairy Month 2011 and celebrate it for years to come. June 14 “Johann” began working for us. Johann, a very 21st century LELY automated ...

DECLO — At this dairy, cows are milked, pampered and fed by robots. Heglar Creek Dairy’s robotic barn has been up and running for three months, and the cows are already milking it for all it’s worth.

Ashley Farr of Farr Farm in Richmond programs his Lely Astronaut robotic milker while a cow is milked by the machine. Farr bought the machine used last year. Photo by Andrea Suozzo Inside the barn at ...

For at least the last century, we’ve seen fewer farmers using more labor-saving tools to produce more food. This should be no surprise — just about every field works this way. And yet I was surprised ...

Would you like to discover why an increasing number of dairy farmers are seriously embracing the latest innovation to make their lives easier, put more milk in the tank with less effort and achieve ...

CRESTON, Neb. (KOLN) - At Larson Farms Inc., about 240 cows eat, rest and stand in line to be milked in a barn that is ran almost entirely by robots. The dairy operation is the fourth farm in Nebraska ...

Lely’s latest robot milker – called the A4 – claims to take automation a step further by giving the cow more freedom. The A4 differs in quite a number of ways to the existing A3 Next, which will ...

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 ...