Case Studies · Insights
Research notes on livestock data.
Six cornerstone pieces, one per topic. Every figure carries its source and date. General information, not veterinary, financial or legal advice.
01 · Calf health data
The first weeks decide the rest: the calf data almost nobody records
National calf morbidity, passive transfer and BRD cost figures, and the short list of records that change what a calf raiser, dairy and buyer can know.
4 min · 17 Oct 2026
02 · Beef-on-dairy
Beef-on-dairy: documentation is the new premium
Beef semen use, crossbred calf premiums and a short herd make every calf worth more. What separates the best calves now is what a buyer can know about them.
3 min · 17 Oct 2026
03 · Livestock transport
Every load, signed for: shrink, stress and the rules on both sides of the Atlantic
Shrink per hour, distance and BRD risk, the US 28-hour law, EU Regulation 1/2005 and the stalled reform, and the data a load should produce.
3 min · 17 Oct 2026
04 · Traceability and EID
The rules already require the data. Make it useful.
The US EID rule, screwworm and H5N1, Sanitel and RVO I&R deadlines, and how a required ID becomes the key to a farm's own records.
3 min · 17 Oct 2026
05 · Herd records
Fewer animals, worth more each: what a lifetime herd record is for
The smallest US herd since 1951, record prices, and why one record per head, read many ways, beats a spreadsheet per question.
3 min · 17 Oct 2026
06 · Ag data rights
Your data, under your rules: farm data ownership in the US and the EU
The Ag Data Core Principles, the EU code of conduct and the Data Act, and the six commitments that make data ownership real.
3 min · 17 Oct 2026
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