For at least the last century, we’ve seen fewer farmers using more labor-saving tools to produce more food. This should be no surprise — just about every field works this way. And yet I was surprised ...

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.

MEDFORD, Minn. — Between the video on manure application and presentation on calculating manure application rates, county feedlot officers toured Steele County's first robotic dairy. Rick, Cathy and ...