Many dairy producers in Maine have trouble finding the workforce they need to maintain sustainable operations. Could robots step in? The University of Maine recently unveiled a robotic milking barn — ...

ORONO, Maine (WABI) -Maine’s third robotic milking barn is underway on UMaine’s campus in Orono. UMaine’s Witter Farm is where students research and work in programs involving dairy and equine science ...

Doug and Tina Suhr of Kasson hosted a delegation of dairy professionals at their farm on April 7. The couple have had around 3,000 visitors come to look at their robotic milking system since it was ...

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, ...

A small but growing number of Wisconsin farmers are embracing robotic milking. Difficulties in maintaining a workforce, ongoing market swings and uncertainties over an updated Farm Bill are leading a ...

This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind ...

DECLO — More than 1,000 dairy cows will move out of Heglar Creek Dairy’s conventional barn in September and into a new robotic milking barn where they will sleep on waterbeds.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Local dairy farmers and researchers from across the region met to discuss the future of robotic milking. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and the ...

David and Natalie Nelson have a dairy on land that was homesteaded in 1888 by David’s great-grandmother. When they built a new dairy barn five years ago they put in robotics for milking, not only to ...