This week, 270 dairy cows from UW-Madison ‘s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will be moving into a new dairy research facility at its Arlington Agricultural Research Station in rural Arlington, about 20 miles north of Madison.
With a price tag of $5.1 million, the new facility can house 500 cows, doubling that of the old Emmons Blaine Dairy Cattle Research Center next door. It will be able to milk 64 cows at once. It features state-of-the-art housing, waste-management and milking technologies that dairy experts say are necessary for producing the kind of research needed by farmers in Wisconsin ‘s $20.6 billion dairy industry.