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Minglewood Dairy combines tradition and innovation for premium milk quality

Minglewood Dairy prioritizes employee training, rumination boluses and on-farm culturing to ensure cow health and milk quality.

January 1, 2025

Audrey Schmitz

Ever since 1894, Minglewood Dairy has upheld a tradition of exceptional care for their cows and land, evolving significantly over the past 130 years.

Ruminating for better health

The use of rumination time in the last week of pregnancy can be used to predict the risk of postpartum problems and subsequent performance.

November 21, 2024

Eduardo S. Ribeiro, Matheus Santos, and Ivan Avalos-Rosario

One possible use of wearable sensor devices, such as collars, ear tags or leg bands, is to leverage the prepartum information generated by these devices for predictive assessments of future health and performance and for targeted management.

Small steps can lead to a big payoff with your dairy data

When it comes to your dairy’s data, small acts can have a significant impact. Accurately capturing every herd management event impacts your dairy’s efficiency and profitability.

June 13, 2024

Meagan Young

Failing to record accurate data about an event on your dairy is a small error. However, this small act can have a significant impact and lead to something bigger.

Jobo Farms one step ahead of the game

April 23, 2024

Audrey Schmitz

Two years ago, when Jobo Farms started looking at different programs and ideas to make their parlor run more smoothly, they instead found a herd health monitoring system that fascinated them with what it could do for their cows.

Managing for the profitable cow

Productive isn’t always profitable. Use herd management data tools and insights to monitor cow performance, help keep costs in check and maintain a profitable herd.

January 25, 2024

Taliah Danzinger

A productive cow isn’t always a profitable cow. A profitable cow performs in milk volume and quality, breeds back quickly and experiences few health events.

Early disease detection technologies making steady advancements

Advancements in health technologies can sometimes seem beyond belief. Diseases are being detected well before they’re noticed, even by an experienced eye. While promising, it’s understood that obstacles slowing their progress still exist.

January 5, 2024

Bruce Derksen

Disease is the largest factor negatively affecting beef production and its related profitability. Acute or chronic illness reduces weight gain, feed conversion rates and overall performance. Efficiency losses grow and mortalities increase when disease isn’t handled effectively in a timely manner.

Technology integration on Wisconsin dairy advances herd health

Progression on Wegnerlann Dairy LLC has included the implementation of activity collars and a parlor teat scrubber.

January 1, 2024

Audrey Schmitz

Recently, Tom Wegner was named the recipient of the 2023 Boehringer Ingelheim Dairy First Award. “It was pretty cool for Rebecca Gotham, my BI rep, to recognize me, our farm and my employees for all the hard work we do,” Wegner says.

Using data to unlock cow secrets

Dairy cows are good at masking health and behavior to align with their groups, but actionable data can help you discover what they are saying without words.

October 30, 2023

Evine Van Riemsdijk

Cattle may have been domesticated for centuries now, but they remain prey animals and work to keep their secrets. Those masking skills were beneficial thousands of years ago, but they can create herd management challenges today.

Put the power of herd management in your hands

Find new herd management efficiencies with mobile solutions. By reimagining your workflows, you can save time and increase cow comfort.

August 11, 2023

Craig Walter and William Avila

Going mobile provides rapid cowside entry and quick access to your herd’s data. It allows you to make decisions instantly – instead of later when entering the data into your herd management software.