Making better use of milk recording in HerdApp
Milk recording from Progressive Genetics and Munster Bovine provides great information to help farmers make better decisions for each cow in the herd. Agrinet HerdApp is ideally placed to help you with these decisions. As soon as the latest milk recording results are live in ICBF, they are also automatically synced to AgriNet HerdApp.
HerdApp has a number of ways to make milk recording really useful. It makes the hassle and cost of doing the milk recording worthwhile.
One Animal
Milk tab displays all monthly milk recording results for the current lactation, and all completed lactation results back to the cows first lactation. HerdApp uses green, amber and red traffic light colours to show cows that are low, medium and high for SCC and each farmer can customise what each band means on their own farm.
Overview
Jobs List has a very simple report to count the high SCC cows from the latest test. Click on this number to see the cows involved. If you can see all your ‘millionaires’ coming to the top, it helps focus on a key milk quality issue. If you have say 12 cows with high SCC you can drill down to list these 12 cows, see all their information, and make a decision on each of them. For example, some could be consistently high for SCC and you can enter a ‘Plan to Cull’ record on HerdApp. Others might have had a recent case of mastitis (which can also be recorded on HerdApp) but such a cow may not yet be a repeat SCC offender.
Jobs List has a due to dry report what makes particularly strong use of milk recording SCC values. In here you can select cows with high SCC and 1 or more cases of mastitis and plan their dry cow period in a different manner. These cows may benefit from a longer dry period and/or treatment with dry cow tubes. Other cows with no recent mastitis and low SCC values can perhaps get a teat sealer only and a more regular dry cow period.
Herd reports
Milk allows all the data to be accessed for either monthly or completed lactations. In this manner you can look at cows with high and low kilos of milk solids for example, or look at your high protein and high yield cows.
Did you know?
Progressive Genetics can pregnancy test cows using the same milk sample that is used for fat, protein and SCC. It cannot tell you the days in calf but it is a stress free way to pregnancy test a cow and works well for cows served to AI. Progressive genetics can milk record in 99% of parlours. Trusted ELISA technology provides accurate results on par with palpation and ultrasound.
Milk recording can make a big difference to a herd, and AgriNet HerdApp is the tool to help you unlock the value in your milk recording data.
Faster Insights and Unlocking the Power of Your Data:
Milk recording results offer the farmer the opportunity to deepen their perspective of the herd by easily analysing which cows are producing the best quality and quantity of milk as well as which cows are adversely effecting the overall production value of the herd. HerdApp presents all of this data in a simple and intuitive format to empower farmers to make data-backed decisions that advance their herd.
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