It’s 3:00 in the morning and the parlor is already running. Cows are quietly filing into the holding area, the first group is stepping in, and the routine has begun. Teats are being prepped, units […]
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 […]
Training the Next Generation of Milkers There’s a growing challenge in today’s dairy industry that doesn’t get talked about enough:We’re not just short on labor—we’re short […]
Over the past week here in Northeast Wisconsin, water has been impossible to ignore. Fields have been overly saturated. Low spots have turned into ponds. Tile […]
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 […]
Comfort, Consistency, and the Science Behind Better Letdown On a cold morning, you don’t reach for an ice-cold shower and neither should your cows. For years, […]