Researchers are exploring advanced methods that combine activity monitoring technology with fertility programs to take reproductive outcomes to an even higher level. One approach is called targeted reproductive management (TRM), and here's what it could mean for your herd.

This article, from the University of Florida, explains that pregnancy failure for cows not diagnosed pregnant is the result of one of a variety of causes including insemination errors, anovulation, fertilization failure and embryonic death.

As an industry, we talk a lot about certain cows or groups of cows being “hard breeders.” Yet rarely do we talk about the fact that, often, human decisions are the reason cows aren’t able to become pregnant efficiently, not necessarily the A.I. program.