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The milking of ten to fifteen cows an hour with hydraulic apparatus from American homes and gardens.

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Dairy farming has been part of agriculture for thousands of years. This picture from the early 1900s shows the use of ...
Modern Farmer

For Years, Farmers Milked Cows by Hand. Now Robots and Technology Do the Work

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 ...
AG Week

'I will never move to town': North Dakota family one of the few still milking cows the old-fashioned way

NOME, North Dakota — There was a time when small, family dairy farms could be found all across our North Dakota and Minnesota townships. Now, some farms in the region are milking more than a thousand ...
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'I will never move to town': Nome, ND family one of the few still milking cows the old-fashioned way

NOME, N.D. — There was a time when small, family dairy farms could be found all across our North Dakota and Minnesota townships. Now, some farms in the region are milking more than a thousand cows.