Top 3 Tips for End-of-Summer Dairy Barn Maintenance September 26, 2023 What do you do for end of season dairy barn maintenance? We recommend these tips for maintaining performance for your fans, curtains and high pr ...Read more
An Environment for Healthy Cows with Proper Hoof Health September 15, 2022 How do we make the cow fit the environment, or the environment to fit the cow, to make her last longer and for you to achieve both a more humane existence for the cow, and ...
Robot vs Rotary: Contemporary Considerations August 17, 2022 Dan Vander Heiden, product specialist with DeLaval, recently sat down with the VES-Artex Academy webinar series to discuss milking system technologies — you can watch the whole presentation and Q&A session in the recording of ...
VES-Artex Unpacked: Water on Dairies August 8, 2022 When thinking about achieving cow comfort, our focus at VES-Artex revolves around the engineering, design and layout of fans, lighting, soaking technology and high-pressure fogging within a barn. Those elements comprise the core of what ...
VES-Artex Unpacked: Minimizing Heat Stress June 23, 2022 As a dairy producer, there are few feelings worse than heading into peak heat stress months with known cow comfort issues that you don’t have a straightforward answer for. You’re likely wrapping-up spring projects, whether ...
Hands-Free Tech: The New Frontier in Precision Farming June 14, 2022 VES-Artex hosted the latest in its VES-Artex Academy Webinar series featuring Terry Canning, CEO and co-founder of CattleEye, a health management system featuring AI-powered video analytics specifically for livestock farmers.
Milk Quality Improvements Start in the Back of the Barn May 31, 2022 VES-Artex was recently joined by Dr. David Reid, veterinarian for Rocky Ridge Dairy Consulting to examine how dairies can help improve milk quality before cows reach the parlor. Dr. Reid, who is one of the foremost experts on ...
VES-Artex Unpacked: THI in Dairy Cows April 26, 2022 The dairy industry is rife with acronyms, slang and shorthand, and in our world of ventilation and bovine environmental products, one of those that reigns supreme is THI in dairy cows, or Temperature Humidity Index. ...
Leveraging Dairy Data as a Tool, Not a Time Suck April 13, 2022 Ryan Pearcy, Turntide’s director of product marketing for sustainable agriculture joined VES-Artex to share insights on integrating and optimizing data streams to help drive animal-centered environments on dairies using connected technologies.