AgrotechRobotic milking lifts dairy returns by $3.15 per hundredweight
USDA economists find American dairies that installed robotic milking earned materially more per hundredweight of milk than those that did not.
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LivestockFrom one cow to a cooperative: how Ethiopian dairy turned into a paying job
Ayelech Tarekegn Mekebo began with a single local cow in 2006; she now supplies 20 litres a day to a cooperative with a refrigerated collection centre, and is paid every ten days.
LivestockFewer farms, more milk: how scale rebuilt US dairy
American milk output rose 32 percent in two decades while the number of licensed dairy herds fell by almost two-thirds, USDA researchers find.