TECHNOLOGY FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE January 2026 69 environmental metrics, nutritionists and producers gain a holistic view of the production system. This integrated perspective enables earlier risk detection, more targeted nutritional interventions, and better economic decisions. In this context, data becomes a strategic asset that supports faster, smarter, and more confident decision making.” HOW SHOULD DATA BE EVALUATED AND INTERPRETED? We know that collecting data alone is not enough; big data gains value through its capacity to bring fragmented data together to make it meaningful. But how can we collect accurate, consistent, up-todate, and comparable data? And how do we ensure that big data creates decision support instead of decision confusion? In short, what solutions do we have to make sense of data, analyze it, and integrate it into decision processes? This is where powerful tools that complement human expertise, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), come into play. At dsm-firmenich Animal Nutrition and Health, this integrated approach is made possible through the global Precision Services foundation. Luis Valenzuela describes their solutions: “Precision Services brings together digital solutions such as Verax™, Sustell™, Farmtell™, and additional analytics platforms to help producers transform complex datasets into practical and value creating decisions. Our global infrastructure aggregates data from multiple sources including feed mills, farms, laboratory analyses, production records, and external datasets. Advanced analytics, machine learning, and predictive modeling are applied to convert this information into AI driven decision support. Rather than focusing solely on historical performance, these tools help predict risk, quantify impact, and guide proactive actions. Verax™ for example, supports poultry production, combining health, nutrition, and performance data to identify emerging challenges and optimize interventions. Farmtell™ focuses on dairy and beef systems, helping ruminant producers improve efficiency, resilience, and productivity by integrating farm-level data. Sustell™ spans the entire value chain across species, from crops to processing plants, enabling robust life cycle assessment insights. In parallel, mycotoxin risk management analytics use predictive models to warn of contamination risks in crops and livestock feed, creating awareness and enabling timely mitigation. The common denominator across these solutions is not data volume, but the ability to turn data into decisions that deliver measurable business outcomes.” Dairy Data Warehouse (DDW) is a Netherlands-based company with over 12 years of experience helping the global dairy industry unlock the full potential of farm data. Armin Pearn describes the solutions offered by DDW as follows: “We turn complex dairy data into actionable insights that drive more sustainable and profitable farming. We connect directly to herd management and on-farm systems, processing and standardising millions of data points daily into a consistent, high-quality dataset. This allows dairy professionals whether in nutrition, genetics, animal health, or cow monitoring to work with accurate, comparable information across all their herds. In practice, if a consultant supports 20+ herds using different software systems, MAKING DAIRY DATA WORK so your solutions can drive efficiency and sustainability on farm
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