What’s hot and what’s not in dairy tech in 2025
Where we stand with monitoring, computer vision, sort gates, AI and more
I’m calling my shot now. 2025 will be the year of marketing whole-life monitoring for the dairy cow.
This technology is an extension of what is now mainstream technology use in the dairy industry – that of monitoring the activity of adult dairy cows primarily with external monitors, such as collars and eartags. What has made whole-life monitoring possible is the shrinking size of sensors as well as extended battery life. Now, they are capable of being placed on an animal as a calf and remain in use throughout her productive life without having to ever change devices. Many of the players who now have adult cow monitoring will be bringing whole-life monitoring to market and promoting it over the next two years.
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As an editor focused on innovation for dairy cows, I watch the technologies gaining mainstream adoption, as well as new innovations that are emerging. Follow along in tracking how I see innovations and their stages of adoption in the dairy industry.
Mainstream adoption in 2025
Adult cow activity monitoring has now reached the stage of late majority adoption. It joins milk meters and automated milking technology. Current forms of activity monitoring depend on the use of external devices to monitor the health and reproductive status of adult cows and heifers.