Daylight saving time comes to an end in the early morning hours of November 2. Residents are reminded to set their clocks ...

CHARLOTTE, Vt. — For decades, as his own industry struggled, seventh-generation dairy farmer Clark Hinsdale II watched visitors flock to the nearby Shelburne Museum to admire its vast American art ...

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Milking with robots is finding its second wind on North American dairy farms, according to industry experts at Dairy Strong, a conference held yearly in Madison, Wis. It’s a sort of resurgence. Use of ...

A Tyrone dairy farm has pumped £750,000 into transforming its 300-acre business near Omagh, which has included transforming ...

Chad Kieffer, a third-generation farmer from Utica, Minnesota, has five milkers for his herd of 350 cows. The milkers are squat, patient, persistent workers. They hum around the mooing cows. They are ...

POSTVILLE, Iowa -Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Dairy Team will discuss robotic milking and low-cost parlor systems during December meetings. Meetings in northeast Iowa are Dec. 3, at ...

ORWELL - The robots are coming to Vermont dairies, replacing what farmers call a problematic and unreliable workforce that includes undocumented immigrants and reluctant locals who are sometimes ...

Joe Oldenkamp gives a tour of his automated milking system for members of the Tillamook Working Lands and Waters Cooperative. The Oldenkamp Dairy setup includes milking robots, automated alley ...

Janet Stiles Fulton has milked a lot of cows in her life, so giving that job up to robots two years ago was not only a big change for her, it was unusual even for Washington County, Maryland's leading ...

Amanda Freund remembers the exact moment when her uncle, Ben Freund, raised the idea of bringing a robotic milking system to the family’s dairy farm. “It was January, 2015, and we were in the office, ...