Core body temperature and calving alerts set a new herd health monitoring technology apart from an old system on Willow Breeze Farm.

Starting transition cows strong in a robotic milking system goes a long way toward maximizing milk production. Use these feeding strategies to get your fresh cows started right.

Don’t rely on just your eyes to catch signs of trouble. Utilize herd monitoring technology to track cows' actions all day, every day to support and enhance herd health.

When transition cow complications are prevented, avoided or caught quickly, cows are left with a better opportunity to be productive and successful in their lactation.

Cows on harvested feeds perform better when allowed at least a couple of hours of grazing green, lush pasture. Early feeding observations have suggested hydroponic forages behave similarly, enhancing intake, rumination and nutrient digestibility.

Bedding stalls, manure alley cleaning, footbaths and sorting are four activities that will need to be managed differently when installing robots. 

In this episode of the Progressive Dairy Podcast, host Kimmi Devaney talks with Davon Cook about how peer groups and advisory boards can improve your farm by bringing additional perspective to your management decisions.