New Dairy Farm Tech poster v1.3 now available
Plus, new flexible, wireless skin patch can monitor cows
Earlier this year The Cow Tech Report and Progressive Dairy along with the IFCN Dairy Network launched the first-ever Dairy Farm Tech poster – a visualization of companies working with cow tech. This week an updated poster (v1.3) is available. The next update (a 2.0 version) will be forthcoming in January 2024.
Welcome to the following companies that have been added:
Company // Size (Small, medium, large)
Agrimesh // Medium
Ajinomoto // Large
Brolis Herdline // Small
DairyCS // Small
Emgenisys // Small
Hato // Small
Lasso // Small
Mileutis // Small
Nutreco // Large
Pasture.io // Medium
PeopleCor // Small
SmartSoaker // Small
If you would like a high-res PDF of the new poster, email cowtechreport@gmail.com. If you know of a company that has been left off, please let me know.
Cool stuff we saw at World Dairy Expo 2023
I participated with the other Progressive Dairy editors in scouring World Dairy Expo for the coolest new things at the show last week in Madison, Wisconsin. Many of them were technology related. See what cool stuff we found.
Supreme International (Sponsor)
Supreme International is the first company in North America to
manufacture the vertical feed processor and is recognized as the best
TMR processor in the world. Learn more here.
Irish inventors create flexible skin patch to monitor cows
Scientists in Ireland have developed a new kind of flexible device that can be used as a health monitoring tag for animals. The new devices don’t have batteries, wiring or computer chips and could be read at a single location like in a parlor. The inventors say they can currently gather information about cow stress, hydration and general well being. See their invention and learn more here.
AfiMilk (Sponsor)
Hear how accurate, 24/7 heat detection helped this Wisconsin farm improve preg rates, simplify management and more. See cow monitoring in action.
Scottish report on UHF ear tags agrees with USDA; UHF ear tags effective for cattle identification and traceability
A new Scottish study concurs with research in the U.S. about the effectiveness of using ultra high frequency tags for electronic cattle identification. UHF ear tags are approved for use in the U.S. for voluntary cattle traceability. (Mandatory tracking is not required in the U.S., and no country in the world is using UHF tags for official recording of cattle movements.) The new report suggests UHF tags are capable of increasing readability accuracy, distance and speed when used for cattle tags. Read more about the comparison between the two technologies here.
North Carolina research farm installs milking robots
N.C. A&T University Dairy recently installed a new DeLaval robot to milk the university’s small herd of Jersey cows. Read more here or watch the video below.
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 Oct. 12, 2023):
1,000-cow dairy = $386,900 (DOWN about $65,100 in the last month)
2,500-cow dairy = $1.697 million (DOWN about $169,000 in the last month)