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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CALMAR, Iowa — U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said he couldn't imagine how cows can be milked automatically before last week's tour of the Iowa's Dairy Center at Calmar. "But I saw it happen," Grassley said ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...