DairyTalk 736: More Sensors, Not More Genetic Progress: Why Dairy Data Pipelines Need Fixing - by Helmut Demmelhuber

DairyTalk by Helmut Demmelhuber · Oct 22, 2026 · 23m

This podcast episode is based on a technical article examining how dairy performance and health records move from farms into official genetic evaluations in North America. Despite increasingly sophisticated herd management software and automated data collection, a substantial gap remains between information recorded on farms and information ultimately available for national breeding evaluations. Calf health is a particularly important example, as valuable observations may never become usable genetic evaluation data. The comparison of Canadian and U.S. systems also reveals how reporting…