Everyone knows that the journey to 4-EVENT COW status starts at freshening. Or does it? Think about your maternity pen. In there, you have the new dam and her female calf. The cow just started [...]

Meet cow 5677. She lives on a 1500-cow dairy farm that partners with Alta Genetics and uses an Alta AI technician to handle all of the herd’s reproduction. On the dairy, she’s milked three [...]

Remember cow 5677? At Alta, she’s what we call a 4-event cow. That means the management records on her individual cow card tell us she only experienced four events in her most recent [...]