Dairy farming was a big part of the economy of Allamakee County, Iowa, when I was a kid. Lots of my local pals grew up on dairy farms, and I spent some of my summers working on those farms – not milking but walking beans and haying, mostly. But I developed a pretty good appreciation for how tied down a family is to a dairy farm. Those cows have to be milked, morning and afternoon, every day, no matter what.
You may as well be chained to that farm. But now, in this wonderful modern world we live in, you can have robots milk the cows for you, and it can be done when the cow chooses, and not dependent on the farmer’s schedule.
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 cutting-edge agricultural…
