This presentation provides a brief overview of the Dairy Brain project, a software being developed to provide the status of the operation and herd health information. Also being discussed is Dairy Farm Data Ecosystems- a description of the value of using the data generated on farms. The Data Money Extension project past experiences will also be discussed, including some examples of applications and demonstrations of tools already developed for farms.

About our presenters:
Dr. Victor E. Cabrera is a professor and extension specialist in dairy management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Science Department. Dr. Cabrera combines applied research, interdisciplinary approaches, and participatory methods to deliver practical, user-friendly, and scholarly decision support tools for dairy farm management. These scientific tools are aimed to improve dairy farm profitability, environmental stewardship, and long-term sustainability of the dairy farm industry.

Dr. Liliana Fadul is an animal scientist currently working as a research associate at the laboratory of doctor Victor Cabrera in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of the Dairy Brain project team. Liliana completed her PhD at Université Laval in Quebec, Canada. There, she recognized the potential use of data science techniques to help identify problems and offer solutions in the Animal Science field. Learning and exploring these applied techniques, particularly in dairy farms, became her true passion. At the Dairy Brain project Liliana is integrating different data streams generated on and off farm. These integrated data are prioritized and analyzed using different machine learning techniques with the objective of developing management-decision tools.

Mr. Daniel Diederich farms near Green Bay. There, his farm, the closest grade A dairy to Lambeau Field, has 540 cows milked in a state of the art facility. Daniel prides himself on adopting new technology and relishes trying to do things differently. The youngstock are partially custom raised and partially raised on a 500 acre intensive management grazing farm and the mixed herd of cows went robotic in 2011 and are milked in 8 DeLaval robots. A graduate of University of WI- Madison, Daniel learned how powerful partnerships with the University and Extension can be and the value accessible through them.

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