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 ...

Farmers looking to get into the dairy business or expand their operations may want to consider building a compost barn to house animals. Dairy experts and farmers already using the facilities say they ...

LITTLE FALLS, Minn. — The Miller family’s foray into the dairy industry got a modest start in the mid-1950s when a father sought more work for his growing sons. Today, the dairy has 1,500 cows milked ...

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 ...

Jan Henderson grew up in a farming household. “My grandfather was a dairy farmer in Western New York. My dad was a dairy farmer in Western New York. We moved to Florida and relocated our dairy farm in ...