The issue
Cow health is the foundation of a profitable, sustainable dairy, influencing every major performance indicator. Health issues – lameness, mastitis, metabolic imbalance, or stress – quickly reduce intake and milk yield while increasing labor and treatment costs. In the short term, healthy cows produce more milk, cost less to manage, show stronger heats, and create smoother, more predictable workflows in the parlor.
In the long term, cow health shapes the genetic and financial future of the herd. Many health traits are heritable, so healthier cows produce offspring with better longevity, higher lifetime milk and fewer health events. Strong herd health also reduces forced culls, allowing producers to select replacements based on performance rather than problems. The result over time is a more resilient, efficient and profitable herd with lower replacement costs and more consistent production across generations.
Afimilk provides a complete health management solution that supports both daily decision-making and long-term herd evaluation, giving producers the insight they need to act fast, treat efficiently and prevent issues before they begin.
The more Afimilk products a dairy uses, the more powerful the health intelligence becomes. AfiFarm unifies all data streams into a single system that connects daily alerts with herd-level KPIs. This integration enables producers to understand root causes, improve decision-making and confidently plan the future of the herd.
Identify health problems sooner so cows recover faster with less intervention.
Real-time reports highlight cows needing attention to streamline treatment decisions.
Monitor rumination and nutrition trends to catch herd-wide issues early.
Analyze long-term health patterns to strengthen protocols and reduce future health risks.
Afimilk sensors collect continuous data for every cow at every milking, including rumination, eating time, activity, conductivity, milk flow, yield and more. AfiFarm then analyzes the data and generates individual attention alerts for both specific and non-specific health issues.
Producers get clear, timely alerts through the Afi2Go Prime mobile app for quick intervention. This means cows receive treatment at the first sign of trouble – reducing drug use, labor, dumped milk and stress on the animal.
Beyond individual alerts, Afimilk delivers powerful group-level intelligence. Heat-stress indicators, digestion and rumination trends, and feeding behavior provide early warning of environmental, nutrition or management issues. Producers can immediately identify ration changes that aren’t working, ingredient issues that reduce intake, or pastures that fail to provide quality forage.
With AfiLab, dairies gain additional nutrition alerts – such as SARA/acidosis detection – delivered at the end of the milking session, enabling rapid dietary corrections that prevent herd-wide digestive problems. These insights help producers:
AfiFarm organizes daily health processes into structured, automated workflows. Instead of relying on notebooks or spreadsheets, dairies use standardized task lists for treatments, fresh cow checks, vet visits, reproductive protocols, hoof-trimming schedules and more. The software creates attention lists and task reminders automatically, keeping employees aligned and procedures consistent.
With more than 185 standard reports – and the flexibility to build custom ones – AfiFarm adapts to each dairy’s protocols, KPIs and management style.
Afimilk excels not just at alerting you to today’s issues, but at revealing the trends behind them. Diagnosis, treatment and drug summaries help producers understand:
Exit reports, including reasons for culling, allow the farm to identify preventable patterns.
With clear percentages for mastitis, ketosis, retained placenta, abortions, exits and more, producers can evaluate KPIs, set targets and measure improvement. These insights guide updates to vaccination protocols, hygiene routines and overall preventive care—turning data into long-term herd improvements.
