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Guides on herd management software, sensors & monitoring, robotic milking and data-driven decisions.

Herd Management Software

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Sensors & Monitoring

• Precision Dairy Technology: Sensors, Dashboards, and the Decisions They Actually ImproveA sensor is worth only the decisions it changes, so start with the problem and not the product.

Robotic Milking

• Milk Yield Losses Under Increasing Heat Load: What Automated Milking System Data RevealRobot records turn heat stress from a feeling into a curve, and the curve is not as simple as most summer advice assumes.
• Robotic Milking and Heat Tolerance Traits: What Automated Systems Teach Us About Individual CowsRobots record every cow every day, which makes it possible to spot who copes with heat and who does not.
• When the Robotic Milker Underperforms: What to Check FirstLow milkings per cow and a long fetch list usually have causes you can find: health, feed, cow flow and settings.

Data-Driven Decisions

• Culling Decisions That Pay: Using Health, Fertility, and Production Data TogetherA cow's milk yield alone rarely tells you whether she is worth keeping, and the numbers behind her health and fertility fill in the rest.
• Data-Driven Supplement Allocation to Individual Lactating Cows: Precision Feeding on PastureFeeding each cow her own concentrate sounds like an obvious win, but the research shows it depends on the system.