Data consistency: DDW has developed a wide range of conversions mapping data from the majority of commercial dairy software products transforming raw data from farm into a consistent and comparable data set. Data quality is constantly monitored and fully transparent for the user.
Compliance: DDW operates globally within the legal framework around data usage in the respective country and adjusts to changes in local data legislation.
Insights: We have created one of the largest global dairy databases that supports comparison, benchmarking as well as serve as a base to create algorithms.
Dairy Data Warehouse has developed Herdnet, a unique plug-and play technology- and services platform for automatic dairy farm data collection. Farm data is shipped from the farm to the cloud and can be monitored by third parties, but only when authorized by the farmer. Discover how herds can be enrolled in just a few simple steps.
Our services are extended to stakeholders in dairy which includes companies in nutrition & feeding, genetics, animal health, service providers, cow monitoring and milking equipment.
Feeding
Individual Cow Data combined with TMR information to use for ration calculation programs
KPI information on various management areas combined (e.g. Income Over Feed Costs) to be used by feeding consultant for a holistic evaluation of farm management in relation to feeding
Direct integration of inventory, group and production information to TMR mixer wagons to automatically adjust load weights
Genetics
Individual Cow Data to use for R&D programs on e.g. genetic/ genomic predictions for various novel traits or calculation of Sire Conception rates
Animal inventory and pedigree information for genomic testing and mating advice programs
KPI information on various management areas to be used in breeding goal definition and evaluation
Cow monitoring
Individual animal risk predictions on health indicators around transition management to complement cow monitoring system
Agriculture, including dairy farming, is facing the challenge to massively increase production while doing this within the limits of a finite planet. Clever usage of an ever-increasing amount of dairy data is a key ingredient for the dairy industry to successfully rise to the challenge of increasing dairy production while reducing its environmental footprint. For a sustainable future, dairy farmers will need to focus more on productivity. Productivity can be improved by technical change as well as improved farm management and efficiency.
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