Make Managing your Dairy Easier

From the Experts

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. 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.

Scott Hecker CowManager Specialist 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. • I’m getting accurate health alerts that I can confidently depend on. • It’s paying for itself faster than I thought it would. • 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. 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.”

Jim Neuser Reproductive Specialist

BioFresh Bolus

Are you using an Activity System equipped with a rumination feature in your herd?

Many herds across the country that utilize activity systems are monitoring rumination alerts and providing “low rumination alert” cows with two BioFresh Boluses. The herds are following up with these cows and rumination activity is back up within 24 hours.

BioFresh Bolus is formulated as a supplement for dairy cattle at the time of freshening. BioFresh Bolus is also beneficial to sick and off-feed cows, and assists in reducing Somatic Cell Count as the Southern Illinois University proved with research.