Efficiency, Sustainability, & Profitability in Dairy with Big Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI) by Dairy Data Warehouse.

The dairy industry isn’t short on innovation, and big data and artificial intelligence are helping to unlock even more innovative solutions for dairy farmers, consultants and companies.

Enter Dairy Data Warehouse. This Dutch company helps dairy companies and consultants to advise farmers on sustainable milk production, animal selection and herd inventory management, utilizing big data for dairy and AI tools guide farmers to make the best decisions for their farms. This is all accomplished by analyzing dairy data gathered from 28 million dairy cows around the world.

Data, AI Revolutionizing the Dairy Industry

The dairy value chain is just now starting to experience the transformation brought by data and AI that’s been revolutionizing other industries. The dairy industry has been denied this innovation previously because data is siloed and difficult to access. Dairy producers have various management software platforms to choose from to collect their data, and the resulting data varies in how it’s measured, making it difficult to compare apples to apples.

Dairy Data Warehouse has developed a wide range of conversions mapping data from the majority of commercial dairy management software systems transforming raw data from the farm into a consistent and comparable data set. Data quality is constantly monitored and fully transparent for the user.

“There is a large variation in data quality and quantity between farms,” said Armin Pearn, DVM, Dairy Data Warehouse Head of Insights. “We look to standardize the data, while helping the dairy industry produce more protein with fewer inputs through data-driven decision making support.”

Although sustainability and efficiency have been longtime tenets of the dairy industry, there’s a new urgency to use data and AI to help meet these overarching goals. By gaining Insights from data, dairy industry professionals can identify where operations can make adjustments to become even more efficient, sustainable and profitable.

“For more sustainable dairy farming in the future, dairy farmers will need to focus more on productivity, even down to the individual cow level,” said Pearn.

Producing More Milk with Less Feed

With a burgeoning global population, there’s a critical need to produce more milk with fewer resources and less environmental impact. This challenge drives Dairy Data Warehouse to supply data and AI tools to the dairy industry, as these are the latest and most powerful solutions to achieve the higher goals of using less inputs and resulting in lower environmental impact.

For example, individual cow data combined with total mixed ration information can be used to fine tune dairy rations. Key performance indicators on various management areas can be used by dairy feeding consultants for holistic evaluation of farm management to drill down into feeding and save even more money on feed, while more precisely feeding the dairy herd while maintaining milk production.

“We want to help dairy companies assist producers with connecting the dots between farm management areas,” Pearn said. “By seeing a holistic picture of the farm, dairy farm consultants will be able to identify the most promising improvement areas for their customers.”

Keeping Data Protected for Exclusive Insight

Dairy Data Warehouse recognizes that dairy farmers’ individual data is private, and they protect dairy farm data during the collection process on farm through their Herdnet plug-and-play platform. Consistent, high-quality data flows from dairy farms to the cloud and third parties. Data is only shared via Dairy Data Warehouse with a third party with explicit farmer authorization.

With Dairy Data Warehouse being a global player, our data platform complies with the legal framework in the dairy farmer’s respective country to ensure that data is collected lawfully and accurately. Our algorithms take raw data from millions of lactations on dairy farms around the globe on a daily basisand transform it into a standardized, comparable data format with high standards for data quality, so data-driven decisions can be taken with confidence.

The company also has our exclusive insight tools to maximize the information inside dairy data. For example, the Optiherd tool allows dairy industry consultants to proactively monitor key production indicators.The Predicta tool, powered by AI, issues alerts for cows that may be at risk of disease during the transition period and provides prescriptions on which cows to inseminate or remove from the herd as well as how to best use sexed semen.

“Understanding the data, consultants can anticipate future events on the dairy,” said Pearn. “This knowledge is power, and can equip your company to provide even better service to your dairy farmer customer base.”

Learn more about Dairy Data Warehouse in their website DDW.