Welcome to central Texas, where summer days exceed 100 degrees and heat stress is one of the greatest threats to cow health, reproduction and performance. But since adding monitoring technology to their 1,250-cow herd last year, dairyman Hidde Osinga from Overwhere Dairy is using collar-collected data to: Find and treat compromised cows sooner Catch silent heats Capture 15 percentage points on conception rate Find out how his team has learned to trust the system, and hear about Hidde’s excitement for the future of dairying in this episode, part of the High-Performance Mindset Series, powered by Nedap. Nedap is future-proofing dairy farms by revolutionizing cow-side care through technologies in activity monitoring, cow locating, milk metering and identification. Find more episodes in Nedap’s High-Performance Mindset Series here: 4 High-Impact Actions to Create a Winning Farm Culture with Travis Speirs, Shiloh Dairy Dairy Tech in Texas: Managing 8,000 Cows with Activity Monitors featuring Nathan Moroney, Del Rio Dairy Protecting His Price and Managing Risk with Nathan Moroney, Del Rio Dairy Managing More Cows, More People and More Data with Derrick Josi Full-Potential Farming: Reaching the Highest Level of Performance with Cows and People through Technology with Megan Schrupp, NexGen Dairy Olympic-level Business, Management and Mindset with Elle Purrier-St. Pierre and Jamie St. Pierre

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