There are many diseases and events in a cow's life that need recording for management purposes in an organized way. The data is useful for such factors as quality assurance, management and also for central data handling requirements when assessing genetic components of disease. Farmers and...

Consumers continue to want safe food, quality food, affordable food and increasingly, convenient food. All performance recording systems will need to keep these needs at the forefront. A trend within beef production that could accelerate the collection of performance records for carcass traits is...

PocketDairy is the first full-featured dairy management programme for hand-held computers using the Palm Operating System. A reduced database can be synchronized from PCDART that provides basic information for each cow in the herd. This program allows dairy managers and employees to view cow...

An automated biosensor system for detecting pregnancy and predicting ovulation in dairy cows was built and tested. The system automates the sampling of milk and the analysis of the milk by a deployment of a screen printed carbon electrode biosensor for progesterone. Test and calibration benchmarks...

From data collected from farms equipped with automatic milking systems, the reduction of the milking sampling period from 8 to 24 hours was submitted and the consequences in terms of reliability of estimated daily yields was assessed. From 17 hours of sampling, an estimation of daily performances...