The conference room at Iowa's Dairy Center consists of windows for viewing cows in the freestall barn as well as cows being milked by the new Lely robotic milking system. Midwest Dairy Association has ...

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 ...

SOUTH HAVEN, Minn. • A lot has changed in the 70 years Janski Farms has operated. Everything but one building has been expanded, converted, newly constructed or upgraded to keep up with the times. And ...

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 ...

Lely has launched three new robotic solutions for milking cows. Both Astronaut A5 Next and Astronaut Max build on the success of the Astronaut A5 milking robot. In addition, the Lely Hub was also ...

ARLINGTON — A robot helps feed Nick Van Dam’s dairy cows. The red-and-white automatic feed pusher moves along the feeding alley at Van Dam’s dairy, a nearly 200-acre farm in an urban growth area ...

DECLO — At this dairy, cows are milked, pampered and fed by robots. Heglar Creek Dairy’s robotic barn has been up and running for three months, and the cows are already milking it for all it’s worth.

BOISE - Faced with an increasing shortage of workers, Idaho dairies are investing in robotic milkers. "The interest in robotic milking in Idaho is growing quite rapidly," said John Paetz, regional ...

Fisher & Thompson will have exclusive rights to sell and service Lely robotic milking equipment in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and eastern and central Pennsylvania, mostly south of Interstate 80.

Remote assistance and over-the-air software updates are among the benefits of Lely’s new operating software built into the Astronaut A5 Next robotic milking setups. Apart from improving serviceability ...

Brower estimates about 110 Lely robots have been installed in Leedstone's service area. Brower said each Lely Astronaut A4 can cost between $190,000 and $210,000 per robot. Not surprisingly, Brower ...