CALMAR, Iowa — The new robotic milking system at Iowa's Dairy Center continues the philosophy that existed when the facility was built in 2000.

DECLO — More than 1,000 dairy cows will move out of Heglar Creek Dairy’s conventional barn in September and into a new robotic milking barn where they will sleep on waterbeds.

Ready for the future: Pennock dairy farm features robotic milking system PENNOCK -- In 1953, Dolores and the late Don Youngren bought six spring heifers and started milking cows on their rural ...

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 ...

Robots may be dairy's future, but not a cure-all, farmer says The number of licensed dairy farms in the U.S. has dropped from around 60,000 to 30,000 in the last two decades.

Within the free-stall barn, each cow can walk up to the DeLaval VMS Series V300 Milking Robot system when they’re ready for milking.

Lely requires that dairy farmers who adopt its robots commit to letting their cows move freely between milking, feeding, and resting, as well as inside and outside the barn, at their own pace.

CALMAR, Iowa -Excavation and earth work have started for a new robotic milking center and free-stall barn expansion at the Dairy Center at Northeast Iowa Community College at Calmar.

Brad Carr, a 2021 Greensburg Salem High School graduate, prepares his autonomously driven feeding robot for a demonstration run in a cattle barn at his grandparents’ Lone Oak Farm in Salem. Brad ...

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 ...

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 ...