Connected cows taking part in the trial in Japan. Image: Fujitsu/MTN/Microsoft There's useful information lurking inside every business - whether it's a farmer knowing when a cow is ready to breed or ...

ARLINGTON — A robot helps feed Nick Van Dam’s dairy cows. The red-and-white automatic feed pusher moves along the feeding alley at Van Dam’s dairy, a nearly 200-acre farm in an urban growth area ...

It was billed as a scientific marvel – a kind of bovine carousel that transformed a backbreaking job — and people came by the busload to this small town south of Sydney to see it. But if the idea of a ...

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Ecologically, the cow has been central to Indian civilisation. The integration of livestock in farming has been the secret behind India’s centuries-old sustainable agriculture systems. Ecologically, ...

There are essentially two ways to milk a cow. The first is the age-old practice of milking by hand. The second is by machine with buckets and pipeline milkers. More on this second method in my next ...