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140-year-old dairy farm near Lake Michigan offers $5 tours
The family farm offers tours featuring high-tech robotic milking systems and newborn calves. And you can get ice cream made ...
Kelm Dairy Farm Season 17 Episode 7 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions| CC Dan meets with Colleen and Jerry Kelm, robotic dairy farm. Nitrogen reduction. 02/12/2025 Farm Connections Kelm Dairy Farm ...
MAHNOMEN, Minn. – Before Jim and Sue Steinmetz installed robotic milkers on their farm near here, they had just about given up. "We were going to exit on dairy cattle," Jim Steinmetz said. "We ...
On a growing number of dairy farms, cows, not people, decide when they need to be milked. Robots can do the job day or night. For some farm families, the robots free them from rigid milking schedules.
Within the "free-stall" barn, each cow can walk up to the system when they’re ready for milking, at which point robotic arms will connect pumps to their udder. Allowing cows to set their own ...
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. — Robotic tech and cow comfort are not the first things you’d think about when visiting a dairy farm. But after a fire destroyed their barn in 2019, the Brake family ...
The Witt family farm in Monroe County, Wisconsin, has adopted a robotic milking system that works 24/7 and never takes a vacation. The system has revolutionized their farm operation. The farm is ...
Lely is a Dutch farm-implement company specializing in dairies. It has been selling versions of its robot milker, which it calls Astronaut, since 2005 – the Fitchs’ version was introduced in 2018.
Hillside Farm, owned by the Flory family outside of Dublin, built a completely new robotic dairy operation a year ago with hopes of more than doubling its herd size.
BROGUE, Pa. -- With the help of robots and a little training, 150 cows on the H.E. Heindel & Sons dairy farm are practically milking themselves.
Andy and Sarah Lenkaitis own and manage a dairy farm, one of only three in Kane County, Illinois. They use technology such as robotic milkers, an automated manure system and an automated feed ...
Groetsch and her Holstein herd represent the leading edge in a new wave of farm technology that is sweeping into the Upper Midwest: a dairy robot so sophisticated that it has practically taken the ...