You may have seen robotic dairies where cows approach a machine to be milked when they want. You likely have seen "rotary" parlors that put more than 100 cows on a merry-go-round to be milked by people.
In April, the family installed a "robotic, rotary" dairy parlor — only the fourth in North America and the 15th in the world.

Brussels/Chicago - January 16, 2019. The dairy sector welcomes discussion on Sustainable Food Systems. Recently, a group of scientists and interested citizens came together to form the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health, an international panel seeking consensus on a roadmap for sustainable food systems.

Humankind’s gift of gab is not set in stone, and farming could help to explain why.

Despite growing beef cattle inventories since 2014, dairy animals have been a stable source of beef and continue to play a key role in filling U.S. beef demand.

Europe’s animal farming sector has exceeded safe bounds for greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient flows and biodiversity loss, and urgently needs to be scaled back, according to a major report.

For years, experts have recommended low-fat dairy products over the full-fat versions, which are higher in calories and contain more saturated fat.

Milk and dairy deserve a place in a sustainable diet and should be consumed more often than currently, health experts say.

Aarhus University in Foulum leads a new and exciting project which is to form the basis for producing sustainable milk in the laboratory as an alternative to cow’s milk. The project is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

No cows needed for this milk. But we’re not taking about products such as almond milk or soy milk. We’re talking about actual milk complete with dairy proteins. But not a cow in sight.

On South Africa’s Lancewood dairy farm, a GPS-guided tractor spreads cow manure across defined areas where tilling is banned and fertilizer used at a minimum, if at all.