DeLaval International, a large Swedish producer of dairy and other farming equipment, is installing 24 robotic voluntary – meaning the cows approach the stations on their own – milking machines at TDI ...

Holsteins, the black-and-white-spotted dairy cattle, are known for their long, lanky limbs and calm temperaments. America's dairy farms are doing more with less. There are fewer dairy cows today than ...

There are essentially two ways to milk a cow. The first is the age-old practice of milking by hand. The second is by machine with buckets and pipeline milkers. More on this second method in my next ...

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 ...

Robotic milking is based on the idea that if the cow can’t be adapted to the machine, then adapt the machine to the cow. Based on research conducted in Britain, West Germany, and the Netherlands in ...

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For at least the last century, we’ve seen fewer farmers using more labor-saving tools to produce more food. This should be no surprise — just about every field works this way. And yet I was surprised ...

NEOSHO - Dawn Gault spends a lot of time with her calves. She cherishes the feeling of nurturing the young cows and watching them grow, and revels in the stillness of the barn late at night, after all ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Dairy farming has been part of agriculture for thousands of years. This picture from the early 1900s shows the use of ...

Matthew Stuber is affiliated with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Gary Kazmer receives funding from USDA. Shalabh Gupta is a member of IEEE and ASME. Steven Zinn receives funding ...