Like many aspects of the agriculture industry, big data in dairy farming is changing the game, with businesses across feeding, genetics, sensors, and dairy advisory services leveraging standardized dairy data to improve efficiency, productivity, and sustainability. Dairy Data Warehouse provides tools that help companies create innovative solutions, enhance herd performance, and support consultants make better decisions. Dairy Data Warehouse contributes both individual and herd-level information to assist agribusinesses with decision making across 47 countries, and that number continues to grow. 

Dairy Data Warehouse offers seamless dairy data solutions, allowing our customers to plug into herd management software, milk processing systems, MROs and TMR softwares. Customers can choose from over 120 KPIs to measure and monitor such as average lactation, average days in milk, days to conception, insemination/pregnancy rates and many many more.  

Dairy Data Warehouse has detailed dairy data solutions for every individual cow on the farms we partner with—what we refer to as Individual Cow Data Marts (ICDMS). This solution offers pinpointed data on everything from a cow’s fertility to milk production. Big data in dairy farming accessed through ICDMS can show health and reproductive tracking for that animal, her milk production trends and even feeding and movement data. 

ICDMS is ideal to help businesses build precision dairy farming tools, animal health applications, genetics solutions, or any solution requiring animal-by-animal consideration when making decisions. If your company is creating tech for the farm or veterinarians, ICDMS from Dairy Data Warehouse can be critical for your success. 

ABC Feed Company integrates dairy data solutions from Dairy Data Warehouse to track how different rations impact milk yield across multiple dairy farms. By adjusting nutrient composition based on real-time feed conversion efficiency data, the company has helped their customers reduce feed waste while also improving milk production. 

XY Genetics Company utilizes reproduction and milk production data from Dairy Data Warehouse to rank bulls based on real-world performance. Dairy farmers are then able to better select sires that maximize herd fertility and milk yield. 

Tech Sensor Company 123 integrates health and milk production KPIs from Dairy Data Warehouse with their movement tracking sensors. By combining activity data with milk yield and health records, dairy farmers can more quickly detect lameness and mastitis, lowering their treatment costs. 

Dairy Data Warehouse also takes individual cow data a step further, by combining that dairy data solutions into herd-wide intelligence. Our herd-level insights solution, KPI Library, provides dairy data solutions that can be used for benchmarking, analytics and decision-making tools. 

For example, DDW’s KPI Library can aggregate big data in dairy farming showing milk yield per herd, fertility and breeding performance for each dairy operation, and indicators for animal health and sustainability across each herd.  

Another example might be examining feed conversion efficiency across herds, milk yield per cow, and fat-to-protein ratio. By digging into these dairy data solutions, dairy nutritionists can ensure cows receive the right balance of nutrients to optimize milk production without overfeeding, which can be wasteful and expensive. In addition, dairy cows that are above optimal weight can develop disease and problems after pregnancy. 

This big data in dairy farming can be utilized by dairy industry consultants, feed and nutrition companies, research organizations, and even policymakers to make better decisions that need to be taken at an industry-wide level. 

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