In the dairy industry, we have a tendency to overcomplicate things. We convince ourselves that better results require more steps, more decisions, more labor and with […]
If you’ve read some of our previous posts, you’ve seen us talk about prep lag time, consistency and the importance of routine in the milking parlor. All of those pieces matter, but they all hinge on one foundational concept […]
Walk into most dairies today and you’ll find no shortage of data. There are parlor reports, milk flow curves, SCC trends, and more dashboards than ever before. In a […]
The dairy industry has never stood still. Our dairies grow. Labor changes. Facilities age. Cow numbers expand faster than infrastructure. Milk quality expectations continue to rise, […]
At the January annual meeting of the National Mastitis Council, a research team from Brazil presented something that hits directly at what we’ve been talking about […]
As temperatures drop and the air turns dry, dairies across the country are beginning to see something familiar, a rise in teat skin condition issues. While […]