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 ...
DeLaval International, a large Swedish producer of dairy and other farming equipment, is installing 24 robotic voluntary – meaning the cows approach the stations on their own – milking machines at TDI ...
At a farm in Columbia County that traces its roots to 1950, robots milk the cows. Advertisement Article continues below this ad The animals follow the scent of food through an enclosed route to the ...
Dairy farmer Rodney Elliott stands in a small room where part of his $12 million robotic milking system is doing its job. The robotic system is located inside a huge new barn on Elliott’s farm ...
For at least the last century, we’ve seen fewer farmers using more labor-saving tools to produce more food. This should be no surprise — just about every field works this way. And yet I was surprised ...
There are essentially two ways to milk a cow. The first is the age-old practice of milking by hand. The second is by machine with buckets and pipeline milkers. More on this second method in my next ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Dairy farming has been part of agriculture for thousands of years. This picture from the early 1900s shows the use of ...
Matthew Stuber is affiliated with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Gary Kazmer receives funding from USDA. Shalabh Gupta is a member of IEEE and ASME. Steven Zinn receives funding ...