Progressive Dairy hosted these technologies along with PDPW on the Nexus Innovation stage – a live-format presentation that is a cross between a TED Talk and a Shark Tank pitch.

In this episode, we will introduce you to, and celebrate, the 2023 Nexus Innovation Award winners.

• Nedap for its SmartFlow Milk Meter
• Glori Enterprises for The Fodd
• Arm & Hammer Animal Nutrition for its Certillus product for dairy bedding
• SmaXtec for its TruDrinking feature 
•  Zinpro for IsoFerm

Moving from one herd management software to another is a significant step. Your herd management software is the most important, yet least recognized, part of your business.

As commercial dairy farms become larger, managers lose the ability to monitor each cow individually. But the need to “see” and “know” each animal personally, as in days gone by, has not vanished.

Activity monitoring has followed somewhat the same path as the digital television. More companies have entered the marketplace as technology has evolved, which has increased the competition for technology development but also significantly reduced the price. Datamars entered the activity monitoring marketplace last year with the launch of the Tru-Test Active Tag system.

Onboarding a new activity monitoring system is not simply flipping a switch. In fact, the process starts well before purchase.