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 ...

Rebecca Miller/Farm and Dairy Beef steers chow down, at Jim Beardsley’s farm, in Salem, Ohio, Dec. 12. After selling his dairy herd in November 2019, Beardsley retrofitted his free stall barn to make ...

The arm reaching for the milk-laden udders of the cow is not human. It’s the arm of a robot, metallic and shiny, gliding along the cow’s belly, then calibrating back and forth before lifting rubbery ...

CLARISSA, Minn. - There is a lot to see on Pat Lunemann's Twin Eagle Dairy farm near Clarissa. The compost-bedded barn houses fresh and problem cows. In his six-row free-stall barn, Lunemann has ...

This study tested the effect of neck rails equipped with and without foam on stall usage and preference by dairy cows. The hypothesis of the experiment, that cows prefer lying stalls with foam in ...