On a quiet dairy farm in Western Australia, the cows decide when they want to be milked. No farmers, no dawn routine, just robotics, solar power, and battery storage. At the Mostert Family Dairy, ...

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 ...

Would you spend the best part of a million dollars on a robot? Dairy farmers are doing that across Australia as a dozen farms have gone high-tech with the latest agricultural mechanisation. "It is the ...

PENNOCK - In 1953, Dolores and the late Don Youngren bought six spring heifers and started milking cows on their rural Pennock farm. Today, there are 380 cows on the third-generation Youngren dairy ...

Many dairy producers in Maine have trouble finding the workforce they need to maintain sustainable operations. Could robots step in? The University of Maine recently unveiled a robotic milking barn — ...

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 ...

Agriculture, one of humanity’s oldest professions, is undergoing a technological renaissance, thanks to robotics.