Herd software tells you which cows need attention. Your books tell you what you spent last month. Neither tells you how the whole dairy is performing. Spade Farm joins your operational and financial data, so you see what changed, why, and what it means for profit.
Milk per cow fell 2.0 lbs, Sep 20–26. Two events on your timeline line up: the fresh-pen move on Sep 16 and the heat event on Sep 19. Intake dropped first, then milk a day later.
Income over feed cost is the daily profit signal: is the dairy making money on every cow, every day. Spade Farm calculates it from your milk and feed records, so a drop shows up within days, not on next month's milk check.
Your weekly summary shows IOFC fell $0.38/cow/day last week, from $9.64 to $9.26.
Milk revenue held flat. Feed cost per head rose from $7.69 to $8.12.
The jump starts with the Oct 2 delivery. Canola meal came in 11% higher.
Review canola inclusion with your nutritionist before the next load.
On a 5,000-cow herd, $0.38 per cow per day is about $57,000 a month. Caught in a week, it gets corrected in one feed load.
Herd, feed, milk, weather and financials usually live in five systems and a pile of spreadsheets. Spade Farm connects to the tools you already run and pulls it all into real-time Farm Stats, rolled up across sites or drilled down to a single pen. No re-keying, and you can export your data any time.
Pen 3 milk yield is up +4.2% since switching feed mix on Apr 12 — worth checking if you want to roll out to other pens.
IOFC fell $0.38/cow/day, from $9.64 to $9.26. Milk revenue held flat, so most of the drop is feed: purchased feed cost rose after the Oct 2 delivery.
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