How do I automate my farming and bee-keeping industries?

Solution 1:

Unfortunately, the user interface for these industries is rather poor.

The only real fix for it I've uncovered is the use of dfhack's workflow tools.

Solution 2:

What i normally do is put the milking first in the order cue on repeat the next order is the cheese making and put that on repeat as well. Depending on how much animals you have and how fast your dwarf does the job you can cue this up multiple times. So not really automate but it's a relative low amount of clicks and you end up with big stacks of products. If your dwarfs finish the end tasks (cheese making) before there first tasks (milking) then the jobs will be cancelled.

Perhaps you need to count the amount of creatures to be milked, put that amount in the job manager. Then add an equal amount of milking to the list with lower priority. Still not fully automated but very doable compared to some other tasks.