How-to guide

Some changes you make. Some just happen. Here's how to manage both on your dairy

No two weeks on a dairy look the same. You rebalance the ration, regroup a pen, bring on a new milker. Meanwhile the bunker composition changes, the weather turns, and a number drifts without anyone touching it. Every one of those shows up in your data eventually. The question is whether you can connect the change to the number while it still matters.

Feature deep-dive

The 13 weather numbers on your dairy, and what each one is actually telling you

Every dairy has a weather story and almost none of them have weather data. You know it was a hot July. You don't know that intake was still falling two days after the heat broke, how far it fell, or that the conception rate you're unhappy about in October was decided in that same stretch. Weather is one of the few inputs on your farm you can't change — which is exactly why it's worth measuring. You can't move the weather. You can move everything you do about it.

Release notes

Farm Timeline is now available in Spade Farm.

Feature deep-dive

Every change on the dairy leaves a mark in the numbers. Farm Timeline shows you where to look.

Every dairy runs a continuous experiment on itself. You switch to new-crop silage, move a group, change a milking shift, add a fan bank — dozens of changes a year, each one rippling through intake, components, cell count and breeding for weeks afterward. Almost none of it gets written down. So three weeks later, when milk is off two pounds and the nutritionist asks what happened, the answer is a group effort of remembering. Farm Timeline is the place to stop remembering and start looking it up.

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Spade Farm: your herd, feed, processor and financial data in one daily picture

Your herd software knows the cows. Your feed system knows the ration. Your processor and your books know the money. None of them talk to each other — so the full picture lives in a spreadsheet, if it exists at all. Spade Farm connects them and does the math every day.