News January - February, 2022
Make Managing Your Dairy Easier
All kinds of farms across the globe manage their herd with CowManager. Here’s what two CentralStar experts have to share about how the system benefits herds they work with. “One of the biggest benefits of CowManager are the health alerts the system provides. With this system updating alerts on the hour, every hour, it is very beneficial to dairy producers.
Scott Hecker CowManager Specialist
They can do their morning post-fresh checks, address animals that need it and not have to wait until the next day to see if animals are responding or not. They can look at recovery in real time, from anywhere.
Once a dairy producer decides to purchase the system, I take on a lot of initial responsibility. I’m here to make the whole process easy. I place the order, monitor delivery, coordinate a time for installation and am there the day of the installation. It’s that easy. Some of the benefits I’ve heard from dairies about CowManager are... •
Ease of installation - it’s seamless.
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I’m getting accurate health alerts that I can confidently depend on.
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It’s paying for itself faster than I thought it would.
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I should have done it sooner!”
“The producers that I work with love CowManager. They tell me that they’re finding cows that need attention sooner. They’re spending less time looking at cows that don’t have any issues. They can concentrate more on the cows that are having issues or any type of issues that they would have never even seen. CowManager helps a producer manage their time because they don’t need to look at every cow every day. And they know which cows to go to that need attention to take a look at. Now, especially with labor shortages, CowManager works like an actual employee, but it works 24 hours a day. Jim Neuser Reproductive Specialist
CowManager can be used on all sizes of dairies. It all wraps around the total package of the cow. If cows are not feeling well, they’re not going to breed back well. And the sooner you can get a cow back feeling better, the more milk you’re going to gain back. You will have a healthier cow that will breed back, that will get pregnant, maintain a pregnancy, have another calf and be profitable.”
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Diagnostic Test Options Diagnostic Test
Sample Type
Turnaround
PCR
Milk, Whole Blood, Tissue
10 days
PCR
Whole Blood
10 days
ELISA
Serum, Milk
5 days
ELISA
Milk, Serum, Tissue
5 days
PCR
Milk, Tissue, Whole Blood
10 days
Pooled PCR (Min 10/Max 20)
Tissue, Whole Blood
10 days
Pooled PCR (Min 20/Max 250)
Milk
10 days
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A1/A2 BLV
BVD
Johne’s
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Producers using
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ELISA
Milk, Serum
5 days
PCR
Fecal
10 days
Pooled PCR (Min 3/Max 5)
Fecal
10 days
PCR
Milk
10 days
Complete 16
Milk
2 days
Pooled Complete 16 (Min 3/Max 5)
Milk
2 days
Contagious 4
Milk
2 days
Pooled Contagious 4 (Min 3/Max 5)
Milk
2 days
Single Mastitis (Staph aureus OR M. bovis)
Milk
2 days
Pooled Single Mastitis (Min 3/Max 5)
Milk
2 days
(60CC)
(15CC)
ELISA
Serum, Milk
5 days
BUY 5 • GET 1
BUY 16 • GET 2
ELISA
Serum
1 day
January 1 - February 28, 2022
January 1 - February 28, 2022
ELISA
Milk
1 day
Mastitis PCR
Neospora Pregnancy
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Convert™ is a trademark of Select Sires Inc. and is manufactured by Agrarian Solutions®All claims, representation and warranties, expressed or implied, are made only by Agrarian Solutions and not by Select Sires Inc. 1 Dairy Calf Management Practices Impact Future Production, University of Kentucky, Donna M. Amaral-Phillips.