Good News! We have received a Phase I SBIR grant from USDA to fund development and validation of MilkBot®; with a project titled "Lactation Modeling Tools and Information Base for Dairy Herd Management and Research". We're getting excellent results, which will be published soon.
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MilkBot®; provides a lactation model and set of related tools for lactation curve analysis in dairy animals. Many applications are possible, growing from the ability to quantify both magnitude and shape of lactation curves in a consistent and repeatable way. |
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Text and slides from Dr. Ehrlich's presentation at the 2006 coference of the American Association of Bovine Practitoners Quantification of Lactation Curves for Diagnosis. .
Overview gives a high level view of MilkBot®;'s rationale. From there, you may wish to look at the model behind the computer method, or a detailed description of MilkBot®; parameters. We discuss some possible uses of MilkBot®; technology, and there is an interesting side discussion of the MilkBot®; fitting engine. See our contact information, for more information on getting access to MilkBot®; technology.
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