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 ...

Cows at Goodwood can now choose when they are milked – by state-of-the-art robotic dairy milking machines.

One dairy split its herd, matched robots and rations to each group, and now runs 3.4 milkings a day with a single employee.