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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CONSULT CORNER
Robotic Milking Resources from John Gerbitz
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Sep 263 min
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...
Sep 193 min
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...
Sep 123 min
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...
Sep 53 min
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...
Aug 293 min
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....
Aug 223 min
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...
Aug 153 min
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...
Aug 83 min
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...
Aug 12 min
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...
Jul 253 min
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...
Jul 182 min
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...
Jul 102 min
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....
Jul 80 min
As seen in Hoard's Dairyman: Can we skip feed in the robots?
Feeding pellets in the robot is the way we have always done it. Still, a few high-producing dairies have been successful without.
Jun 272 min
MANAGING HOOF HEALTH IN ROBOTIC MILKING
It goes without saying that hoof health is critical to successful robotic milking. Thank you, captain obvious. We all understand that...
Jun 203 min
FIND YOUR BEST AND WORST ROBOT COWS
The Cow Corner Top and Bottom Cow report highlights the top ten and bottom 10 cows for various key performance indicators (KPI). It is a...
Jun 133 min
HOW DO YOU MANAGE YOUR FREE TIME?
Let’s talk a little bit about free time. I don’t mean the kind on the lake with a fishing pole or on the deck with a beer. This is Cow...
Jun 63 min
RANK YOUR COWS WITH A ROBOTIC PERFORMANCE INDEX
I was a dairy farmer before synch programs, sexed semen, and using beef semen to manage heifer inventory. In those days it was not...
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