Thanks to Trump, More U.S. Milk Will Be Coming From Robots
- Growth of robots on dairy farms could rise 30 percent a year
- Immigration raids and other fears shrink dairy’s labor pool
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The robots are coming -- this time, to a dairy farm near you.
It wasn’t long ago that cow-milking robots were a novelty in the U.S., but today, automation is showing up on more farms. One of the big factors spurring the trend: more than half of all workers on dairy farms are immigrants, and the Trump Administration’s hard-line policy stances are signaling that labor could be even harder to come by. Robots can cut the number of workers on a dairy farm by 50 percent.