Precision Ag On The Dairy Farm

Are you familiar with precision agriculture?  At this point it would be kind of hard not to be.  Did you know the level at which this method is being adopted by dairy operations nationwide?

“We have three different general beans of precision dairy technologies, so milking technologies, breeding technologies, and then data and decision support technologies,” said ERS’s Johnathan McFadden.

McFadden said during an over two-decade USDA study, starting back in 2000, such technologies have steadily increased across the dairy sector.  For the last year measured, 2021.

“At least 90% of milk production came from farms using individual cow production records, nutritionist-designed feed, or breeding technologies like artificial insemination and biotransparent,” McFadden.

Yet adoption of precision dairy tech and robotic milking varied based on factors such as the type of tech, geography, and herd size.  And McFadden pointed out that roughly 7% of U.S. dairy farms aren't using any combination of these technologies at all.

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