PENNOCK, Minn. - 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 ...

MENDON — The cows are lined up for milking at the Shupe Dairy Farm north of Mendon. Rod Shupe keeps watch as the cows move through one by one, but he's no longer doing the milking. That's left up to a ...

Various forms of robotic milking are helping sustain small- to medium-sized dairy farms amid broader industry consolidation and improving labor efficiency for some larger operations according to a new ...

“The first thing it does is ID her with a radio ID tag,” Robert O’Toole said as one of his 65 Holstein dairy cows entered the milking stall of his robotic milking system. The system’s computer ...

ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY — At Ingleside Dairy Farm, robotic technologies installed last year are fueling an evolution in how the Leech family operates, while nationally they are contributing to a revolution ...

When retailing giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. began its push to integrate state-of-the-art radio frequency identification technology into its supply chain four years ago, the world took notice. But one ...

In the mid-1970s, the average American dairy farm had about 25 cows. Today, many operations have more than 3,000 — a number that was almost unheard of 25 years ago. Managing large herds efficiently ...

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 ...

MENDON, Ill. - The cows are lined up for milking at the Shupe Dairy Farm north of Mendon. Rod Shupe keeps watch as the cows move through one by one, but he's no longer doing the milking. That's left ...