With the help of two robots, self-milking cows are the cornerstone of Rogue Creamery’s award-winning cheeses. Amelia Schwartz is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor who has been covering food, beverage ...

We asked three farmers to tell us how new technology is revolutionizing the way they work. Credit... Supported by By Coralie Kraft Photographs and Video by Spencer Lowell Coralie Kraft spoke to 14 ...

Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...

On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, and the potential for disease transmission is worrying, health experts say. On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, ...

Milking procedures are likely to be the primary routes of H5N1 influenza virus transmission between dairy cows, suggests a paper published in Nature this week. Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...