THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME

A lot of things have changed since I milked 40 cows in a tie-stall barn in 2001. We certainly know a lot more about transition cows than we did then. We measure things we could not measure and balance things we did not know we needed to balance. And, we didn’t know anything about managing transition cows in robots. One thing that has not changed about transition cow management – it is still about getting them to eat as much as possible, as quickly as possible. We know more about why, and we have new tools to make it happen, but the importance of dry matter intake has not changed.

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