Livestock Management Data
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
Over the last decade, digital tools have been widely adopted by livestock producers to help cut down on paperwork. But as those tools have expanded, so has the amount of data producers are expected to keep track of. Terrell Miller, founder of CattleMax, says a real challenge is making sure all that information doesn’t just get stored but actually put to use.
Miller… “ But the big thing that's really changed in the last few years specifically is the amount of data that producers now have. They have more and more data. It was just keeping track of a basic inventory, treatments, purchase, and sales. But now, I mean, we have carcass data. We have genomic testing data. There's sometimes animal ID and traceability records. There's various other compliance stuff. So there's a lot more records that producers are having to keep up with. The problem, I guess you could say, has grown with that. I feel like there's a lot of great tools out there that adopt it. One of the challenges though too is once you've given somebody a place to store all of that data you really need to give producers a chance to get more out of it, to leverage that. Otherwise, you've just created an electronic file cabinet that just becomes cluttered and useless over time.”
Once again, that’s Terrell Miller.
