Technology 

Strategies for maximizing cow comfort towards improved profitability

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To gain the benefit of the available technology, the data need to be used as an aid to making useful management decisions.

Dr. Jeffrey Bewley, the dairy housing and analytics specialist at animal nutrition company, Alltech, spoke at the Pacific Northwest Animal…

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