He’s collecting data from five farms now and
expects to have the project completed in
three years.
Farmers could tell whether to keep breeding an
animal or let it go.
“I’d use it yesterday if I had it,” said Mitch Breunig,
who is contributing data from his farm, Mystic
Valley Dairy, where he has 460 cows.
He said sometimes it’s weeks before he can
pinpoint how much milk a cow produced on a
particular day and how much it ate.
“I think it doesn’t matter what size your farm is,
it’s information you need to know,” he said.