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Robots make for happy cows
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Chris Levash checks a robot-milker screen. He says the robots allow him to manage cows instead of employees.
Cows adapt quickly to robotic milking. The Levash family utilized Wisconsin Public Service's equipotential-plane grant and rewiring program for their robotic-milker project.
The Levash family of Brillion, Wisconsin, uses three robotic milkers; from left are Nathan, Shawna, Chris, Sheri and John Levash.
Cows in a holding area wait to be milked by a robot on the Levash farm in Calumet County, Wisconsin.
Sheri Levash feeds calves. She takes her husband's and son's joking in stride when they say the family has 'automated' calf-feeding to match their automated robotic-milking system.
Dry cows are fed at an outside bunk on the Levash dairy farm.
John Levash beds freestalls with sawdust.
