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 ...

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 ...

Next year, the largest robotic dairy farm in the United States will go online in Michigan. The future is here. DeLaval International, a large Swedish producer of dairy and other farming equipment, is ...

SANFORD — The job of milking cows at a Hardee County dairy farm used to involve someone manually cleaning their udders with iodine using dip cups and wash cloths. That process has been replaced at C.R ...

CORVALLIS, Mont. — It's the end of an era for one of the region's best-known dairies. This week, after 110-years of being in the dairy business, Huls Dairy sold most of its milking cows. The family is ...

The spread of H5N1 avian flu to dairy cows has health experts and many Americans on edge, and now a new study finds the virus stays viable on milking equipment for at least an hour. "Dairy cows have ...

The risk of H5N1 bird flu infection to the nation's dairy workers just got more real, with new research showing the virus is active in milk left on milking equipment for at least an hour The findings ...

On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, and the potential for disease transmission is worrying, health experts say. On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, ...

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 ...