Producers Share Early Experiences with Cow-Level Feed Efficiency Data – Podcast
At the 2025 Western Dairy Management Conference, Real Science Exchange podcast hosted Dr. Veronica Shabtai, leading developer of the AfiCollar Feed Efficiency Service, as well as Emily Starceski and Shane St. Cyr from Adirondack Farms in Clinton County, NY. The dairy producers shared some of their experiences with beta-testing the Feed Efficiency technology on-farm to evaluate, including animal-to-animal variation and variation in different […]
At the 2025 Western Dairy Management Conference, Real Science Exchange podcast hosted Dr. Veronica Shabtai, leading developer of the AfiCollar Feed Efficiency Service, as well as Emily Starceski and Shane St. Cyr from Adirondack Farms in Clinton County, NY. The dairy producers shared some of their experiences with beta-testing the Feed Efficiency technology on-farm to evaluate, including animal-to-animal variation and variation in different stages of lactation. The panel discusses how genomics could pair with this data to aid in selection decisions.
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