Increase Milk Production in Cows: Get More Milk with Fewer Animals You’re producing 75 pounds per cow per day. Your neighbor with the same feed program and similar facilities? 80 pounds per cow. What’s the difference? It might not be what you feed or how you house your cows. It could be which cows you’re…
Dairy Herds: When to Cull and When to Keep Using Lifetime Data You check production records every month. Feed costs, vet bills, milk checks, all accounted for. But here’s what most farmers miss: the cows draining profits aren’t always the obvious ones. A cow producing 70 pounds daily might look solid in today’s numbers, yet…
Dairy Farm Management: Historical Data to Optimize Decisions You keep detailed records. Every breeding decision, every culling choice, every health event gets logged in your dairy management system. But here’s the question most farmers never ask: What if those five years of records could show you exactly where you left money on the table? Traditional…
The $12,000 Question Every Dairy Farmer Should Ask You’re doing everything right. Your cows look healthy, your vet bills are reasonable, and your milk checks keep coming. But here’s what we’ve learned working with dairy production operations across North America: most farms are leaving $12,000 or more on the table every year per 100 cows….