I am a dairy farmer and is slowly moving from hand to machine milking. Please advice on this milking technique for my benefit and other farmers. [Michael Muchai, Nyandarua] Thank you Muchai for that ...

A farmer is sitting by a cow, milking by hand. The year is 1944, the year I was born. He’s milking the same way his father and grandfather did before him. Nothing much had changed in milking cows over ...

In the mid-1970s, the average American dairy farm had about 25 cows. Today, many operations have more than 3,000 — a number that was almost unheard of 25 years ago. Managing large herds efficiently ...