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 ...

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 ...

-- Joe and Cindy Doak have been running their dairy farm in Mannington for 25 years. This past February, their farm received a boost in the form of a Lely robotic milker.No longer will anyone at Doak ...

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.

ARLINGTON — A robot helps feed Nick Van Dam’s dairy cows. The red-and-white automatic feed pusher moves along the feeding alley at Van Dam’s dairy, a nearly 200-acre farm in an urban growth area ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...