You just invested $200,000 in a barn renovation. New ventilation systems, softer bedding, automated cleaning. The whole operation looks modern and efficient. Six months later, mastitis rates dropped 15%. That’s good news. But milk per cow barely improved. Some animals still struggle. Others thrive in the exact same environment. Here’s what’s actually happening: better facilities…
A dairy farmer asks you during a routine herd visit: “Is our new mastitis protocol working?” You’ve observed fewer clinical cases over the past six months, but can you quantify the impact? Without structured data analysis, veterinarians often lack the appropriate tools to document specific intervention outcomes. With disease burden analysis, you can show them…
You implement a new ketosis prevention protocol in January. Spring arrives, then summer passes. Your dairy client asks in August: “Is this working?” Without systematic data, the answer remains uncertain. You might observe fewer clinical cases, but did the intervention actually reduce milk production losses? That’s the economic question dairy farmers care about, and until…
You implement a new mastitis prevention protocol. Six months pass. Your dairy client asks: “Is this working?” Without data, you’re guessing. You might say prevalence went up because detection improved, or down because prevention worked. But what your client really wants to know is whether milk production losses decreased. That’s the ROI question, and until…
The dairy industry generates enormous amounts of data: milk yields, health events, reproduction records. Yet most of this data remains underutilized. Farms track treatment costs but miss the extended milk production losses that disease causes across entire lactations. This gap creates challenges for veterinary practices. You provide valuable strategic expertise beyond clinical treatment, but quantifying…
You check your books every month. Feed costs? Accounted for. Vet bills? Paid. Labor expenses? Tracked. But what about the $2,000 to $20,000 your herd loses annually to diseases that never appear as line items in your financial records? Global dairy disease losses total approximately $65 billion annually, with the United States accounting for $8…
Introduction Most dairy operations track milk production data religiously. Test day records, daily yields, component percentages, the numbers are all there. But here’s what these data hides from the eyesight of veterinarians and farmers: traditional milk production systems only show you half the story. Recent research reveals that subclinical diseases alone cost dairy operations between…