The Southwest New York Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Program will host a tour next month of several farms in eastern New York that feature value-added operations.
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Fresh cow care also involves pen evaluations
Farmers can best troubleshoot fresh cow issues by tracking health data as well as evaluating pen dynamics. What’s more, automated health monitoring systems have proven to be useful in making earlier diagnoses.
“The earlier, the better,” said Rob Lynch, PRO-DAIRY veterinarian. “There’s newer technology out now, and there are several farms taking advantage of these automated health monitoring system. Rumination, activity monitoring, and automated sensors on cows can alert farm managers to health disorders a lot sooner than we can with our traditional means of looking over cows,” said the Cornell veterinarian.