Here’s how to empower your dairy farm advisors with data

Dairy farmers work with various advisors to gain access to expertise, additional insights, and objective perspectives. These can further inform and shape their farm operations and management practices.

However, if your advisor visits your farm every two weeks or once a month, you need to update them on the current situation while also finding and sharing relevant farm data. And all of this needs to be done quickly to maximize the time of their visit.

Connecterra helps solve this challenge by empowering dairy farmers to easily and securely share access to their farm data with trusted advisors.

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Making advisor visits more efficient

Dairy farm advisors visit every two weeks, monthly, or bi-monthly, but much can change in that time. Herd health, milk production, feed efficiency, and operations may vary, leaving advisors needing a lengthy catch-up during each visit.

Additionally, a lot of data is gathered between visits, which advisors must analyze and report on, taking time away from providing quick advice.

And, lastly, without continuous data access, advisors struggle to see the impact of their recommendations in real-time, making it hard to know if changes are working or if further adjustments are needed.

This is why Connecterra enables sharing access to farm data with trusted advisors. Using the Connecterra platform, advisors can:

• ‍Access real-time data: Shared access to data on key indicators like herd health, feed, production, reproduction, behavior and more allows advisors to stay up to date and review changes in advance. This way you can focus on recommendations and aligning on decisions during the farm visit.

“[Connecterra] makes a big difference because when you're sitting in that meeting everybody's got their different idea of what happened... But if the data is right in front of everybody and the data is accurate you can have a better conversation about it and have a better plan moving forward.”

‍Allan Kutz, co-owner of Kutz Dairy

• Receive automated summaries: AI-powered weekly summaries of key trends and changes on the farm allow advisors to quickly get up to speed before visits or remote consultations.

• Stay updated on events and changes: Users can easily record changes they make, (such as ration changes) and monitor the effects in a shared view. This helps stay aligned with the team and fine-tune advice and decisions based on data.

"Our nutritionist loves it because we can identify issues or opportunities much faster than before. We're able to reinforce the changes that are working and course-correct when needed."  

Nathan Brandt, herd manager at Four Cubs Farm

How Connecterra can help both parties

The platform empowers advisors to stay informed about changes, quickly identify trends and issues, and provide more timely and targeted advice. Smart tools help save time, simplify analysis and monitor the impact of their recommendations with real-time impact tracking.  

Farmers, in turn, reap the rewards by receiving more informed and relevant guidance, improving team transparency, and gaining the ability to make data-driven decisions. And using Connecterra, they can easily manage access to their farm data and stay in control.

Start your free 60-day trial today and give it a go!