A.I. & BREEDING

Let’s think about what makes for a profitable cow on your dairy. Yes, the cow is productive – strong milk production, the right balance of fluid and solids, and breeds back in a timely manner to tackle the next lactation – but, also, the cow is healthy.

With no let-up in the need to cultivate profitability, dairies constantly seek ways to manage expenses while increasing income opportunities.

Achieving a heat detection rate between 68 and 75 percent, conception rate as high as 40 to 48 percent and a pregnancy rate range between 30 and 37 percent is attainable, and top dairy herds out there are doing it.

If you feed dairy cows, at some point, in some way, you will deal with the negative effects of mycotoxins on animal health and performance.

With more herds achieving outstanding milk yields, more questions are raised about how these high yields impact reproductive performance.

Today we can drive Tesla vehicles guided by automatic driving modules, hockey players and professional athletes shatter statistics and establish new records, and thanks to science, we are testing hyper-loops to shape our future – and the human race will eventually control its biological destiny like never before.