When it comes to robotic milking, cows need a clear, healthy routine. It improves their well-being, which in turn helps you maximize your farm’s productivity.

Here are four things that will make it easier for you and your cows to get into the swing of things.

Veronica Honores has been on Sollio Agriculture’s finance team since 2021. She believes that the values of our cooperative are very similar to the ones her parents taught her growing up in Peru, including kindness and the importance of working together.

We’re celebrating five years of Dairy Performance Awards! That’s five years that we’ve been teaming up with our Québec cooperatives to recognize the top milk producers in Québec and Eastern Ontario.

What are the Dairy Performance Awards?

They’re awards for dairy farms that do business with Sollio Agriculture. They recognize outstanding annual production results, based on fat + protein delivered to the tank.

• Holsteins: 2.55 or more

• Mixed breeds: 2.10 or more

Carbon footprinting is a crucial first step on the path to reducing your farm’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It’s a simple process if you know how to go about it—especially with a little help from Sollio Agriculture expert Saber Hamdani. Read on to learn more!

When it comes to robotic milking systems, preventing lameness is crucial. It has a major impact on both cow well-being and productivity.

Robotic milking systems are defined by voluntary milking. But for the system to work, farmers need to know how prevalent lameness is within their herds and take a fast, responsible approach to dealing with it.

When dairy farms get so productive that they reach their 10-day limit of overproduction credits, it opens the door to a new and potentially money-saving management strategy: voluntary disposals.

What are voluntary disposals?

Voluntary disposals are when you remove the least profitable cows—ones with low milk production, SCC issues, reduced reproduction or mobility, etc.—to improve overall herd performance.

Mobile field records help farmers and their agri-advisors document and track field operations when they’re on the ground. Read on for an overview of this digital tool, available in AgConnexion | SmartFarm.

When it comes to knowing whether your dairy farm is maximizing revenue, annual feed margin per cow is one of the key indicators to watch. Luckily, Lactascan makes it easy to do just that. Here’s why tracking your annual margin per cow is so important.

 

What is annual margin per cow?

Your annual margin per cow is your daily feed margin over 365 days.