MAHNOMEN, Minn. -The building isn't complete, but it's easy to see how Jim and Sue Steinmetz are developing their Mahnomen dairy farm into an operation geared for the future. Sue Steinmetz (right) ...

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Jul. 18—Sun-Ton Farms has taken on several new employees to help with its organic dairy operation near Adna, though they're not the typical farm hands the fourth-generation family farm has hired in ...

WALLAND, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture unveiled its new robot that can milk cows. According to a release from UT, the new system, developed by the Lely Corporation in ...

BUFFALO CENTER, Iowa -- Augie and Mike Baumann's approach to milking their 240-head dairy cow herd is strictly hands-off. The father and son's cows walk, unprompted, into a computer-controlled robotic ...

MEDFORD, Minn. — Between the video on manure application and presentation on calculating manure application rates, county feedlot officers toured Steele County's first robotic dairy. Rick, Cathy and ...

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 ...