A farm is letting customers pump milk straight from the cow after installing a new vending machine that cuts out the milkman. Farmer Alan Hewson, 56, who runs Crossroads Farm in Eastwell, ...

Every dairy farmer's dream is playing out at the Gruenbaum family farm in Plain City. The cows milk themselves. No kidding. The farm is the first in Ohio to install robotic milking machines that allow ...

In the past, there were few differences between individual milking machines. But huge genetic variation between dairy breeds has led to significant variation in milk yield, milk flow rates, teat size ...

From udder to bottle, introducing the milk vending machine As dairy farmers struggle, one has come up with a way of selling milk by cutting out the middle man. Caroline Fleming hopes that it will ...

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Robots can take care of milking 24 hours a day with no human intervention. Milk sales represent half of the state's agriculture receipts. Bill Kilcer faced a turning point. The heart of his Genoa ...

After four generations of dairy farming, dating to the 1800s, Doug Seipt broke with family tradition and sold his herd of cows. It was an October day in 2006, the year his parents retired from the ...

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