Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...

The “dairy barn of the future” is rethinking animal welfare, technology, and transparency - giving cows the freedom to choose ...

This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind ...

ORONO, Maine (WABI) -Maine’s third robotic milking barn is underway on UMaine’s campus in Orono. UMaine’s Witter Farm is where students research and work in programs involving dairy and equine science ...

Rich Janski talks about the Lely robotic milking system used at Janski Farms in St. Augusta, Minn., as a cow is milked on the other side of the machine. When the farm's long-term employees decided to ...

OLD TOWN, Maine (WABI) - After years of planning and hard work, the University of Maine has another complete project on Witter Farm. Their new robotic milking barn was built from the ground up and ...