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Robotic milkers make for happy cows, happy farmers MAHNOMEN, Minn. - Before Jim and Sue Steinmetz installed robotic milkers on their farm near here, they had just about given up.

Colton Brodt, left, with Barrett, Amanda and Blakely, raise dairy cows using robotic milking systems in Humboldt County, Calif. FERNDALE, Calif. — Dairyman Colton Brodt says the robots working ...

Chad Kieffer, a third-generation farmer from Utica, Minnesota, has five milkers for his herd of 350 cows. The milkers are squat, patient, persistent workers. They hum around the mooing cows. They are ...

The couple is milking 119 cows and will increase the herd, through heifer sales, to 195 milking cows. Each robot handles up to 65 cows, she said.

Cows line up to enter robotic milking machines, Oct. 22, at the Averill family dairy in Tillamook, Ore. To many, this scenario represents the future of farming. As labor costs increase and the ...

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Farmers using robots will have to have knowledge of repairing and maintaining computers and machinery, as well as working with cows who are unwilling to go through the robotic milker.

Robotic milking systems also monitor the cows to determine when it is time to milk them, diverting them from the feeding and resting portions of the barn into the milking area.

She said one $180,000 machine is recommended for their cows; most Harford dairy farms have at least 100 cows. Pennsylvania has about 20 robotic milking systems, she said.

The father and son's cows walk, unprompted, into a computer-controlled robotic milking station where the robotics install the udders and suction the milk.

There are two robots that milk the cows. “There are some farms in the ... The center houses the Department of Animal Science’s milking cows, and UConn Creamery staff use the milk from the herd to make ...