EVALUATING HERD PERFORMANCE BY PARITY AND STAGE OF LACTATION
Robot herds are unique in that there are management changes built into the system for different stages of lactation. In most parlor...
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Nov 143 min read
ASSIGNING MILKING PERMISSION TO DIFFERENT GROUPS OF COWS
One of the advantages of robotic milking systems is the opportunity to customize a milking schedule according to each cow’s age,...
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Nov 73 min read
FEED THEM LIKE STEERS
Many sources, including the Cow Corner blog, advocate feeding dairy cows so that 5% of their feed remains to be removed each day before...
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Oct 313 min read
DRYING OFF COWS IN ROBOTS
Historically, abruptly discontinuing milking was the most common way to start the dry period. There were a few who milked the cow again a...
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Oct 242 min read
WHICH COWS ARE EARNING THEIR TIME IN THE ROBOT?
I have spent many hours, in many different farm offices, discussing the fate of top producing cows that take too much time in the robot....
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Oct 173 min read
HOW BORED ARE YOUR COWS?
Recently, customers have been asking about day-to-day and seasonal variation in their robot barns. They want to know why production,...
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Oct 102 min read
WAYS TO INCREASE MILKINGS/ROBOT
In previous articles, I suggested a general goal of 170 milkings per robot per day and an industry average of 140 milkings. What does it...
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Oct 33 min read
CURING ALLELOMIMETIC COWS
Many dairy publications will have features in the coming weeks about the new products they saw and the new things they learned at World...
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Sep 263 min read
MEASURING MILKING ROBOT PERFORMANCE
What is the most important unit of production on your dairy? You may think of production in terms of pounds of milk, dollars of sales, or...
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Sep 193 min read
PREPARING YOUR TEAM FOR ROBOTIC MILKING
Cows, buildings and equipment get a lot of attention when a farm is getting ready to transition to robotic milking. It’s a big change for...
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Sep 123 min read
COW BEHAVIOR IMPACTS GROUPING STRATEGIES
I once heard a story of a woman who always cut her roasts in half and cooked them in 2 pans. She never questioned the practice. It was...
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Sep 53 min read
FEEDING CORN GLUTEN PELLETS IN ROBOTS
Some dairies are using corn gluten pellets as a lower-cost alternative to manufactured robot pellets. Are corn gluten pellets right for...
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Aug 293 min read
COW CORNER DELPRO TRAINING FAQ'S
Why is Cow Corner offering DelPro training?  Cow Corner’s purpose is to help robotic milking equipment do more for the people who use it....
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Aug 223 min read
HOW SOON TO BREED AFTER CALVING
This week I had one conversation with someone who waits 80 days after calving to start breeding cows and another conversation with...
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Aug 153 min read
A YEAR OF COW CORNER – WHAT HAVE I LEARNED?
Earlier this week I listened to an episode of the Real Science Exchange  podcast titled Lessons Learned in Research on Nutritional...
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Aug 83 min read
KEEPING COWS COMFORTABLE AT THE ROBOT
High traffic areas like the fetch pen, the commitment pen, and the robot entrance can become crowded any time but the crowding can be a...
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Aug 12 min read
WHAT IS CHALLENGE FEEDING?
My summers in the early 1980’s were spent working on a neighbor’s dairy farm. My dad was a crop farmer, so the neighbor’s farm was where...
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Jul 253 min read
ROBOT SOFTWARE OR HERD MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE?
Many dairy farmers have a love-hate relationship with the program that controls the robots. After all, they did not choose it and they...
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Jul 182 min read
A MODULAR ROBOT ROOM
A few weeks ago, Thorp Equipment invited me to see their modular robot room. I went in a skeptic, but I was extremely impressed with the...
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Jul 102 min read
MANAGING ROBOT PELLETS ON THE FARM
Sometime ago I read a book by Susan Scott called Fierce Conversations – definitely a worthwhile read for anyone who has conversations....
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