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 ...

Robots and sensors can spot mastitis before symptoms appear, but keeping cows healthy still comes down to careful management.

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 ...

FRESNO Bill Daugherty rises at 3 a.m. to start milking 132 cows on the farm that has been in his family since 1876. His 89-year-old father Martin joins in the morning milking at the double-4 ...

LISBON, N.D. - You may have seen robotic dairies where cows approach a machine to be milked when they want. You likely have seen "rotary" parlors that put more than 100 cows on a merry-go-round to be ...

In an industry that is the essence of routine, David and Kate Dallam are undergoing a radical lifestyle change. After 16 years of adhering to a rigid milking schedule on their Harford County, Md., ...