SEAMLESS DAIRY DATA SOLUTIONS FOR BETTER DECISIONS
Like many aspects of the agriculture industry, big data in dairy farming is changing the game, with businesses across feeding, genetics, sensors, and dairy advisory services leveraging standardized dairy data to improve efficiency, productivity, and sustainability. Dairy Data Warehouse (DDW) provides tools that help companies create innovative solutions, enhance herd performance, and support consultants make better decisions. DDW contributes both individual and herd-level information to assist agribusinesses with decision making across 47 countries.
DDW offers seamless dairy data solutions, allowing customers to plug into herd management software, milk processing systems, MROs and TMR softwares. Customers can choose from over 120 KPIs to measure and monitor such as average lactation, average days in milk, days to conception, insemination/pregnancy rates and many more.
DRILL DOWN TO INDIVIDUAL COWS
DDW has detailed dairy data solutions for every individual cow on the farms we partner with—what we refer to as Individual Cow Data Marts (ICDMS). This solution offers pinpointed data on everything from a cow’s fertility to milk production. Big data in dairy farming accessed through ICDMS can show health and reproductive tracking for that animal, her milk production trends and feeding and movement data.
ICDMS is ideal to help businesses build precision dairy farming tools, animal health applications, genetics solutions, or any solution requiring animal-by-animal consideration when making decisions. If your company is creating tech for the farm or veterinarians, ICDMS from DDW can be critical for your success.
EXAMPLES OF DAIRY DATA SOLUTIONS IN ACTION
ABC Feed Company integrates dairy data solutions from DDW to track how different rations impact milk yield across multiple dairy farms. By adjusting nutrient composition based on real-time feed conversion efficiency data, the company has helped their customers reduce feed waste while improving milk production.
XY Genetics Company utilizes reproduction and milk production data from DDW to rank bulls based on real-world performance. Dairy farmers are then able to better select sires that maximize herd fertility and milk yield.
Tech Sensor Company 123 integrates health and milk production KPIs from DDW with their movement tracking sensors. By combining activity data with milk yield and health records, dairy farmers can more quickly detect lameness and mastitis, lowering treatment costs.
TAKE A 30,000-FOOT VIEW
DDW takes individual cow data a step further, by combining dairy data solutions into herd-wide intelligence. Our herd-level insights solution, KPI Library, provides dairy data solutions that can be used for benchmarking, analytics and decision-making tools.
E.g., DDW’s KPI Library can aggregate big data in dairy farming showing milk yield per herd, fertility and breeding performance for each dairy operation, and indicators for animal health and sustainability across each herd.
Another example might be examining feed conversion efficiency across herds, milk yield per cow, and fat-to-protein ratio. By digging into these dairy data solutions, dairy nutritionists can ensure cows receive the right balance of nutrients to optimize milk production without overfeeding, which can be wasteful and expensive.
This big data in dairy farming can be utilized to make better decisions that need to be taken at an industry-wide level.
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