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 ...

FRESNO Bill Daugherty rises at 3 a.m. to start milking 132 cows on the farm that has been in his family since 1876. His 89-year-old father Martin joins in the morning milking at the double-4 ...

RUCKERSVILLE — Cheryl McDaniel has found her calling as a dairy farmer. It’s not something she expected to be — she didn’t grow up on a farm and she previously worked in a school office. However, from ...

POSTVILLE, Iowa -Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Dairy Team will discuss robotic milking and low-cost parlor systems during December meetings. Meetings in northeast Iowa are Dec. 3, at ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa -Dairy farmers who have installed low cost milking parlors or automatic milking systems are satisfied with their decisions, according to two surveys conducted by Iowa State University ...

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 ...

FRESNO - Bill Daugherty rises at 3 a.m. to start milking 132 cows on the farm that has been in his family since 1876. His 89-year-old father, Martin, joins in the morning milking at the double-4 ...