Dairy Farm Tech poster v3.1 now available
Researcher developing a virtual assistant for dairy farms
The Dairy Farm Tech poster version 3.1 is now available. As usual, if you’d like a high-resolution PDF copy of the poster, please email cowtechreport@gmail.com
Congratulations to Cattleytics that moved from a small-sized company into the medium category!
Welcome to the following companies that have been added since the last version:
Small – Companies defined as technology startups whose innovation is touching fewer than 100,000 cows.
Soy Best’s rumen-protected Gluco Best
Pathway Intermediates’ Lipidol Protect
Medium – Companies defined as early adoption companies that are touching between 100,000 and 1,000,000 cows.
Large – Companies working with dairy technology – either in research, development or acquisition – whose products touch more than 1,000,000 cows.
Global dairy tech company launches AI-powered vision solution
Nedap recently announced a new artificial intelligence (AI)-driven innovation that uses computer vision to detect lameness in dairy cows at an early stage. The company calls it SmartSight – Locomotion Monitoring. The technology uses the company’s new SmartSight camera and provides actionable insights into those cows that require intervention due to lameness and associated hoof health issues. The product works with the company’s cow monitoring platform, which includes cow activity monitoring and cow location technology and will launch in the U.S. and Ireland in the coming months.
“Vision technology is a logical addition to our platform. It offers farmers new, complementary insights, starting with locomotion, and gives us a completely new way to monitor cows. This is just the beginning,” says Maarten Idink, managing director livestock at Nedap.
Read more here.
Researcher developing a virtual assistant for dairy farms
A researcher at Texas A&M University is actively researching how to apply AI and machine learning on-farm and develop systems that support earlier disease detection, informed decision-making and cost-effective adoption of robotics.
Sushil Paudyal and his team are currently developing a “DairyBot” virtual assistant, a generative AI tool that will enable producers to evaluate farm data and lab results, as well as ask questions about feed decisions while using AI to interpret herd data in real time.
Read more about their research and innovations here.
Rumen bolus provider updates its user interface
The latest update from smaXtec claims to make herd health management more personalized, intuitive and efficient. The software now known as smaXtec Web includes an artificially intelligent digital assistant to help farmers monitor their herd and simplify day-to-day tasks with automated reports, practical lists and clear action recommendations.
The company’s completely redesigned user interface now displays key information in a clearer and more accessible way. Users can prioritize the most important herd details for their farm.
The company says its graphs are easier to interpret, navigation is more straightforward and overall usability has significantly improved.
“The graphics and layout present the data in a clear, colorful form. The addition of dark mode really highlights the data, and the new customizable layout focuses your attention to the reports that matter the most,” says Chad Butts, a user of the company’s products and a dairy farmer from Willow Breeze Farm in New York.
Dairy profit projections from ZISK
Projected profitability for the next 12 months for two dairy herd sizes DECREASED in recent profit projections from ZISK.
ZISK is a profit projection smartphone app that tracks individual dairy farm profitability based on current CME board prices. Projections for a 1,000-cow dairy producing an average of 80 pounds of milk per cow and a 2,500-cow dairy producing an average of 85 pounds of milk per cow are provided.
12-month dairy farm profit projections (as of June 27, 2025):
1,000-cow dairy = $699,000 (DOWN about $12,600 since the beginning of June)
2,500-cow dairy = $2.49 million (DOWN about $42,000 since the beginning of June)