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Santiam Dairy
United States
“These little tags have really changed the way we do business!” Drew Johnson – Santiam Dairy, United States
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Matthias Tibke
Germany
“With the implementation of CowManager we are much more flexible. In general, it is good to have an extra pair of eyes in the barn."
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David Edwards
United Kingdom
CowManager Customer Satisfaction Tour ft. David Edwards
Watch and see why UK dairyman David Edwards, invested in CowManager after advice from our dealer World Wide Sires - UK and why he would recommend it to other farmers.
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Robert Mallet
United Kingdom
CowManager Customer Satisfaction Tour ft. Robert Mallet
Robert Mallet from North Leaze Farm in Hightworth (UK.) has 230 dairy cows ans implemented CowManager in their daily business. It's a no brainer.. it's going to pay for itself pretty much in the first year I think
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Strodthoff-Schneider
Germany
Kundenerfahrung Family Strodthoff-Schneider
Family Strodthoff-Schneider, Wir bewirtschaften einen familiären Milchviehbetrieb in der Wesermarsch mit 350 Kühen und weiblicher Nachzucht. Auf Grund des Wachstums unseres Betriebes, waren wir auf der Suche nach einem geeigneten Brunsterkennungssystem. Im Zuge dessen sind wir auf den CowManager gestoßen.
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Family Beker
Netherlands
Family Beker from Brummen, the Netherlands, 230 cows
Enjoying the holiday season with your loved ones and at the same time have an eye on your herd... It's possible with CowManager! Jeroen Beker, shares: "The benefit of CowManager is that you can detect heats at all time. You have an extra pair of eyes in your barn 24 hours a day. And an activity sensor that gives real time information so I’m always able to see accurate data."
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Family Wijers
Netherlands
Family Wijers from Voorst, the Netherlands, 200 cows
Find out how this family owned dairy farm with 200 cows in Voorst the Netherlands implemented CowManager in their daily business.
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Benninghoff
Germany
Customer Experience Benninghoff
Marc Benninghoff explains how CowManager can help to make all the entire operations easier.
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Producer Panel 3
General
CowManager Producer Panel at WDE 2018 - 3
This producer also measured the effects of CowManager with real numbers! Thank you for the insightful seminar at World Dairy Expo! #awssatWDE18
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Producer Panel 2
General
CowManager Producer Panel at WDE 2018 - 2 All West/Select Sires
The next speaker on CowManager's producer panel at World Dairy Expo milks 600 cows in Minnesota. When in need he says, "We didn't hire a herdsman, we hired CowManager!" #awssatWDE18
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Producer Panel 1
General
CowManager Producer Panel at WDE 2018 - 1 All West/Select Sires
We tuned in to an insightful CowManager producer panel at World Dairy Expo. This Iowa producer milks 120 cows organically and CowManager allows him to keep an eye on his cows... from his house down the road! #awssatWDE18
Cor Veldhuisen
Netherlands
Melkveehouder Cor Veldhuisen runt samen met zijn vrouw en zoon een melkveebedrijf met 130 melkkoeien in Nigtevecht (Utrecht): “We hebben nu CowManager twee jaar. We hebben voor CowManager gekozen omdat we het idee hadden dat met name door de temperatuurmeting via het oor de beste manier is om te kunnen monitoren of een koe gezond is. Vroeger pakte je ook zelf het oor van een koe beet om te voelen of die koud of warm was”.
Ook zijn zoon, Jaco Veldhuisen, is enthousiast over de mogelijkheden van CowManager en de verbeteringen die op het bedrijf te zien zijn: “Ik kijk regelmatig op mijn app van hoe het zit en welke koeien tochtig zijn of welke een gezondheidsmelding hebben. Er zijn geen koeien meer die je mist”.
Op het bedrijf worden de koeien door Cor Veldhuisen zelf geïnsemineerd, aan de hand van de tochtmeldingen van CowManager. Op de applicatie van CowManager is te zien hoelang een koe al tochtig is, op die manier kun je het optimale inseminatietijdstip bepalen. Dit heeft ook effect op de tussenkalftijd verteld Cor Veldhuisen: “Ik ben van 430 dagen tussenkalftijd gezakt naar 390. Dat is helemaal toe te schrijven aan sensoren”.
CowManager geeft niet alleen tochtmeldingen maar ook gezondheidsmeldingen. Dit ervaarde Cor Veldhuisen afgelopen zomer, toen er van kuil veranderd moest worden. Van de een op de andere dag ontving hij allemaal gezondheidsmeldingen en bleken alle koeien last te hebben van pensverzuring: “Het eerste wat je dan doet als je dat ziet, is gelijk hooi voeren. Ik denk zeker, door sensoren, dat we er op tijd bij waren”.
Cor Veldhuisen is zeer te spreken over CowManager en de service: “Als er wat aan hand is met een kapotte sensor, je meldt het en je krijgt een nieuwe toegestuurd. In ons geval werkt het en ik denk dat we het snel terugverdiend hebben. En het is gewoon een stuk bedrijfsgemak”.
Santiam Dairy in Turner, Oregon, is home to 500 milking cows. The dairy is owned by Chris DeVries and managed by son-in-law Drew Johson. After only 7 months of using the CowManager system they already booked great results.
“I
can’t believe how wonderful and easy it is working with these ear-tags. Going through our records, I noticed that our pregnancy rates went up, our death loss down and it saves us a couple of hours of working a day".
The CowManager ear tags monitor the activity, rumination and ear temperature of each cow. This accurate information about a cow’s performance is essential to success in dairy farming. The better you know how your animals feel, the better equipped you are to take the right action at the right time. Adequate intervention will result in higher pregnancy rates, improved lactation, a better health status, and fewer cow losses. CowManager’s revolutionary ear tag provides this information for each individual cow, and fully supports the needs of the dairyman. Resulting in a better performance and a lower work-load.
Before using CowManager, the results of the breeding program were just fine, according to Drew Johnson. However, to maintain the pregnancy rates they needed to use lots of medication. Checking on all the heifers used to be very time-consuming and being short on one man on the team didn’t help our ‘spare-time’ at all.
“In terms of saving time, we used to spend two hours every day chalking tails, watching for heats, and checking fresh cows, but we don’t do that anymore and we’re having better results!
The CowManager system combines data from the ear-tag with a special algorithm, that gives the dairyman accurate health alerts. These health alerts make sure that you can catch an ill cow early. Early detection of the sickness is key for adequate treatment with less and/or cheaper medication. And it can even prevent the milk-production from dropping. According to Drew Johnson, the health alerts from CowManager saved him $8.000 only in medical costs.
“It also saved us time finding and treating cows that are truly sick. You wouldn’t believe how soon the tags pick up illness. Now we save time and $8.000 because we’re only treating cows that need it, and not treating those that don’t.”
“I can’t say enough good about the system! These little tags have really changed the way we do business!”
"Working with CowManager is simple and user-friendly"

Dick and Hetty Laan give their young stock a Sensor at 13.5 months which remains in their ears. At 14 months, they start breeding the heifers. At the moment, they have 250 Sensors in use.
The most important aspect of the system for Dick and Hetty Laan is the Fertility module. "It is nice to have an extra eye on our farm, because of the company size and the amount of work on the field. It’s a practical tool. The results have strongly improved after we started using CowManager. We noticed that some cows are only in heat during the night, we wouldn’t be able to see those without CowManager.
The dairy farmers are also very pleased with the module Health. "It is striking that CowManager indicates cows with health issues so fast. Due to the module Health we can also see an increase in activity half a day before calving.” Beside the activity before calving the they can react faster at sick alerts: “Once we had a sick alert with a temperature notification of a lame cow. Nothing was wrong with this cow during the morning milking, but at the time of the sick alert she was lying in a cubicle fully emaciated. At such a moment it is good to have something pointing that out, so you can act directly.” The module Nutrition is a great practical addition within the CowManager system. "You can see immediately whether the composition of the ration is good or not. This makes it possible to detect deviations in the ration very quickly, because the system shows the feed-factor of the whole herd. It’s nice that we instantly get a notification from cows who don’t eat and/or ruminate enough." "Our daily routine using the system is actually mainly just looking on the CowManager phone app during the breaks.”
Dick and Hetty Laan, The Netherlands

John and Meghan Palmer, the owners of Prairie Star Dairy, Waukon, Iowa milk 120 cows and have 400 acres of crop production along with 200 acres of pasture, with help from their five children. Their milking operation has been certified as organic for several years. In 2015, the Palmers moved into an impressive new free stall barn for improved cow comfort. In December 2016, the Palmer’s purchased a CowManager automated monitoring system with the Fertility and Health modules, which has provided the Palmers with Fertility alerts for cows in heat and Health alerts for cows that appear sick based on a reduction in activity, feeding time and rumination levels. They have SensOors on both cows and heifers.
During the long, cold upper-Midwest winter of 2017-2018, the Palmers were challenged with a spread of pneumonia in their milking cows, caused by the Pasteurella multocida bacteria, which is very contagious and deadly. A common term for this disease in cattle has been termed ‘Shipping Fever’. For the Palmer’s, the value of their investment in CowManager to provide early detection of the pneumonia symptoms was critical in them being able to get early detection of afflicted cows and treat them with organic-approved methods to help maintain their organic status. John Palmer told us that “Initially we had six cows in a sick pen and three of these died despite treatment with antibiotics, but we soon learned based on the data in CowManager, which cows were coming down with pneumonia and we managed to get the rest of the herd through this outbreak. For this issue, the temp alerts available with CowManager were also critical in the diagnosis of cows that needed treatment and was as important to us as the rumination data. Cows that were afflicted didn’t look sick but with a reduction in appetite, declining rumination and elevated temperatures, the CowManager system would flag these cows with a sick alert, which was very helpful.”

Left to right: Faith Palmer, John Palmer and Meghan Palmer.
John also added that “at one time during this challenge, we had 16-17 cows that CowManager identified as being sick with the Health module alerts and using the data available with the system was critical to our ability to manage the treatment process. We only ended up with a few cows that we had to use antibiotics to save, which resulted in these cows having to be sold to a conventional dairy. Without the early alerts from CowManager, we would likely have decided to conventionally treat more cows than we needed to, and that saved us from having to cull a larger percentage of our herd, so having the CowManager system available during this health event was a huge benefit for us.”
Meghan commented on the ease of using the CowManager data; “The CowManager mobile app was very helpful when dealing with this challenge, as we could use it to continually monitor treated cows and look for new cows that showed up on the Health alert list. Once we figured out the pattern, we were able to look closely at the hourly data available for individual cows with the CowManager system to see if the treatment regime was working.”
Dr. David Gibbs is the veterinarian for Prairie Star Farm and had these comments about the value of CowManager to help manage this challenge: “CowManager was an incredibly helpful tool during a Pasteurella pneumonia outbreak at John and Meghan's dairy this past winter. The flagged sick cows would appear fine only to examine them and find 106-degree fevers and very early severe pneumonia. CowManager helped limit the herd damage by identifying sick cows before we could have by simply doing a walk through.”
When discussing their initial investment in CowManager, John said that “We initially purchased CowManager to improve heat detection with the Fertility module, which it has done well but for us the Health module has been a big benefit as well and this incident has made our investment in CowManager well worth it.” Mehgan also summed up their investment in CowManager by saying “CowManager is a great fit for Organic herds. We certainly are grateful for its function in helping us navigate through this situation, but we also love it for its effectiveness in monitoring fresh cows, cows off feed, and heats. CowManager is an invaluable tool to us and has proven its worth through daily use besides this unfortunate event.
John and Meghan Palmer – Prairie Star Dairy

The Tibke family owns a family-farm with 220 cows in Deinstedt (Niedersachsen, Germany). Henry and his sons installed CowManager together with representative Holger Wegner in the spring of 2017.
The main reason to start with CowManager were the flexibility and the labour-saving features of the system. During the harvest season, all family-members are always very busy, so they needed someone who could pay attention to the herd during those peak times. Henry's son Matthias: “With the implementation of CowManager we are much more flexible. In general, it is good to have an extra pair of eyes in the barn.” The German family started up with the module Fertility and the modules Health and Nutrition as a trial. After only two months they decided that these additional modules made their system more complete. “The Health module allows us to perform early treatments. With the hourly graph we can monitor these treatments and check whether the treatment is adequate”, says Matthias. “The module Nutrition allows us to monitor and, if necessary, optimize the effect of a ration change.”
Matthias Tibke – Deinstedt, Germany

We have been working with CowManager for 3 months now. We already worked with a heat detection system in the past, but since we moved into the new stable in 2014, we didn’t use a heat detection system at all. You can imagine that with 220 cows, the overview of all you cows regarding the fertility and health state could be missing.
We chose CowManager because it shows us 3 totally different modules; Fertility, Health and Nutrition. The module Health displays 24/7 eating-, rumination and activity behavior as well as an ear temperature graph. In case of deviations, the CowManager app will send an alert directly to my mobile phone. In the calving period, the cows can be observed easily. By working with CowManager we can intervene quicker than with our own eyes. Without the heat detection system we would have definitely missed a couple of cows.
CowManager is easy to install and simple to use. Also the application of the Sensor in the cows ear is easy.
Family Scharninhausen, Germany
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“To be able to look up any cow, at any time, on my phone and make decisions about her in real time when I am at cow side or at home has been very beneficial to me.”

In 2015, Trailside (Fountain, MN) was considering hiring a herdsperson to monitor herd health because there just weren’t enough hours in a day to do a good job. They purchased CowManager instead. Mike Johnson notes, “To be able to look up any cow, at any time, on my phone and make decisions about her in real time when I am at cow side or at home has been very beneficial to me.” After purchasing CowManager, Trailside caught more cows in heat after the VWP, reduced the number of shots they were giving, bred more cows right after the VWP and at the optimal time, and eliminated tail chalking. Mike also notes that with CowManager they are catching more cows in heat at 19-22 days since last heat. Mike believes that using the Health Module in conjunction with the Fertility Module to confirm heats is one of the “biggest benefits” of CowManager. He adds, “With CowManager, early detection of mastitis, fresh cow illnesses and subclinical respiratory infections has been substantial. I am definitely catching the majority of sick cows earlier. In most cases, there is a faster recovery and the cows bounce back sooner.”
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Cutting back on the use of hormones, improving fresh cow management and decreasing the number of cull cows were the goals that Deluur Dairy wanted to achieve. To do this, Hendrik Eggink, owner of Deluur Dairy, was looking for a cow monitoring system.

His preference for the easy-to-apply ear-tags was greater than for neck collars or leg bands. For that reason, Hendrik decided to try CowManager ear tags by using our ‘seeing is believing’ offer of February 2018. ‘Seeing is believing is an ability to try out the system, without a big financial commitment’, according to the dairyman. It enables farmers to try all three modules Fertility, Health and Nutrition free of charge for 90 days. The only thing the farmer needs to invest in, is the hardware. Another reason Hendrik chose for CowManager over other systems is because of its simplicity and easy installation.
The 90-days trial period was more than enough to convince dairyman Eggink of the power of CowManager. It even exceeded his expectations; 'I am convinced that the CowManager tool is a great help in managing our dairies'. Deluur Dairy has more than 3,100 dairy cows spread over multiple locations. Monitoring all those cows for heat and health is labor intensive and slows down the decision-making process. CowManager makes this process easier, because it allows farmers to retrieve a list with just the cows that have a heat or health alert and therefore need extra attention. It is up to the dairyman to follow up on the cows in this list.
'Our management of fresh cows has been greatly simplified’, claims Eggink. With the alerts list from CowManager he can accurately detect the cows in heat for insemination and all the cows that have a difficult start-up. This saves time and enables him to make adequate decisions. Before using CowManager the cows with a difficult start-up went to the next group unnoticed. This caused major health and production problems, resulting in unnecessary large numbers of cull cows. Now, these cows stay in the fresh cow group until they are fully recovered, resulting in a better performing and healthier cow.
'After having used CowManager for 3 months, we terminated our Ovsync program' Before CowManager, Deluur Dairy was a 100% Ovsync herd. Thanks to the heat alerts given by the CowManager System, that is no longer necessary. Currently, Ovsync is used when a cow hasn’t been bred after 100 days in milk and is checked by a vet.
Also the percentage of pregnant cows is increasing; "Our percentage of cows pregnant during preg check (palpation nr.) went from 53% on average to 67% and continues to improve. Recently we hit 80% on Dairy #1. The percent of cows pregnant in the herd went from 50% before CowManager to near 60% now (we installed it 6 months ago!). We are pushing out our DIM at first breeding to improve our peak milk production"
“We are very impressed with CowManager. We continue to improve herd health and fertility with the help of the system. I recommend CowManager to everyone, it really gives you a ‘peace of mind’ that your animals are being looked after.”
“You cannot hire an extra hand on the farm who does the job that the CowManager System does 24 hours a day.”

Baas Dairy in Barrhead (AB, Canada) began using the CowManager system in July 2015 in order to improve their reproductive results. “Now we have a constant eye on heifers and cows,” Bert states. Alerts come in at whatever time activity is noticed. Cows are bred 18 hours after increased activity is noted. When they relied on hormones, all cows were bred in the mornings; now they are bred at the most opportune time for conception to occur. Bert states that 85 to 90 percent of the herd is now bred based on a natural heat. “You cannot hire an extra hand on the farm who does the job that the CowManager System does 24 hours a day. We have stopped almost all programming of our herd since using the CowManager System. It’s nice to get them bred at the right time…thanks to the CowManager System.” The family is well pleased with results so far: Not only is this method decreasing the calving interval, but it is time-effective. Bert claims, “In using this system, I no longer have to needle cows every night of the week for timed breeding, so it freed me up to be involved with activities with our kids, which to me is the most important aspect of the system.”
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“These little tags have really changed the way we do business!” Drew Johnson – Santiam Dairy, United States
Dick and Hetty Laan, The Netherlands
‘Monitoring 10,000 cows within a blink of an eye’
John and Meghan Palmer
“CowManager is an invaluable tool for our dairy”
“With the implementation of CowManager we are much more flexible. In general, it is good to have an extra pair of eyes in the barn."
“We chose CowManager because it shows us 3 totally different modules; Fertility, Health and Nutrition.”
CowManager Customer Satisfaction Tour ft. David Edwards
Watch and see why UK dairyman David Edwards, invested in CowManager after advice from our dealer World Wide Sires - UK and why he would recommend it to other farmers.
CowManager Customer Satisfaction Tour ft. Robert Mallet
Robert Mallet from North Leaze Farm in Hightworth (UK.) has 230 dairy cows ans implemented CowManager in their daily business. It's a no brainer.. it's going to pay for itself pretty much in the first year I think
Interview with Stef from CowManager
Mike Johnson - Trailside Hoslteins, US
Improve the pregnancy rates and decrease the number of cull cows, with ease
Bert Baas – Baas Dairy, Barrhead (Canada)
Kundenerfahrung Family Strodthoff-Schneider
Family Strodthoff-Schneider, Wir bewirtschaften einen familiären Milchviehbetrieb in der Wesermarsch mit 350 Kühen und weiblicher Nachzucht. Auf Grund des Wachstums unseres Betriebes, waren wir auf der Suche nach einem geeigneten Brunsterkennungssystem. Im Zuge dessen sind wir auf den CowManager gestoßen.
The CowManger Brochure from WWS United Kingdom
The CowManger Brochure from WWS Autralia
The CowManger Brochure from Samen NZ
CowManager Broschure WWS Deutschland
De CowManager brochure voor Nederland van Agrovision
The CowManager brochure of Select Sires
The CowManger Brochure from Select Sires Genevations
The CowManger Brochure from WWS Ireland
Family Beker from Brummen, the Netherlands, 230 cows
Enjoying the holiday season with your loved ones and at the same time have an eye on your herd... It's possible with CowManager! Jeroen Beker, shares: "The benefit of CowManager is that you can detect heats at all time. You have an extra pair of eyes in your barn 24 hours a day. And an activity sensor that gives real time information so I’m always able to see accurate data."
Family Wijers from Voorst, the Netherlands, 200 cows
Find out how this family owned dairy farm with 200 cows in Voorst the Netherlands implemented CowManager in their daily business.
Customer Experience Benninghoff
Marc Benninghoff explains how CowManager can help to make all the entire operations easier.
CowManager Producer Panel at WDE 2018 - 3
This producer also measured the effects of CowManager with real numbers! Thank you for the insightful seminar at World Dairy Expo! #awssatWDE18
CowManager Producer Panel at WDE 2018 - 2 All West/Select Sires
The next speaker on CowManager's producer panel at World Dairy Expo milks 600 cows in Minnesota. When in need he says, "We didn't hire a herdsman, we hired CowManager!" #awssatWDE18
CowManager Producer Panel at WDE 2018 - 1 All West/Select Sires
We tuned in to an insightful CowManager producer panel at World Dairy Expo. This Iowa producer milks 120 cows organically and CowManager allows him to keep an eye on his cows... from his house down the road! #awssatWDE18
Melkveehouder Cor Veldhuisen runt samen met zijn vrouw en zoon een melkveebedrijf met 130 melkkoeien in Nigtevecht (Utrecht): “We hebben nu CowManager twee jaar. We hebben voor CowManager gekozen omdat we het idee hadden dat met name door de temperatuurmeting via het oor de beste manier is om te kunnen monitoren of een koe gezond is. Vroeger pakte je ook zelf het oor van een koe beet om te voelen of die koud of warm was”.
Ook zijn zoon, Jaco Veldhuisen, is enthousiast over de mogelijkheden van CowManager en de verbeteringen die op het bedrijf te zien zijn: “Ik kijk regelmatig op mijn app van hoe het zit en welke koeien tochtig zijn of welke een gezondheidsmelding hebben. Er zijn geen koeien meer die je mist”.
Op het bedrijf worden de koeien door Cor Veldhuisen zelf geïnsemineerd, aan de hand van de tochtmeldingen van CowManager. Op de applicatie van CowManager is te zien hoelang een koe al tochtig is, op die manier kun je het optimale inseminatietijdstip bepalen. Dit heeft ook effect op de tussenkalftijd verteld Cor Veldhuisen: “Ik ben van 430 dagen tussenkalftijd gezakt naar 390. Dat is helemaal toe te schrijven aan sensoren”.
CowManager geeft niet alleen tochtmeldingen maar ook gezondheidsmeldingen. Dit ervaarde Cor Veldhuisen afgelopen zomer, toen er van kuil veranderd moest worden. Van de een op de andere dag ontving hij allemaal gezondheidsmeldingen en bleken alle koeien last te hebben van pensverzuring: “Het eerste wat je dan doet als je dat ziet, is gelijk hooi voeren. Ik denk zeker, door sensoren, dat we er op tijd bij waren”.
Cor Veldhuisen is zeer te spreken over CowManager en de service: “Als er wat aan hand is met een kapotte sensor, je meldt het en je krijgt een nieuwe toegestuurd. In ons geval werkt het en ik denk dat we het snel terugverdiend hebben. En het is gewoon een stuk bedrijfsgemak”.