Drying off management on smart dairy farms

Drying off cows is a necessary process and a critical phase in dairy cow’s lactation cycle which can be stressful for the animal and time-consuming for the dairy farmers. The growing world population has increased the demand for meat and milk products and has led to a rapid growth in the scale of cattle enterprises globally. Therefore, dairy cattle production intensification would likely increase the animal density, lower the stockperson per animal ratio, decrease available time to monitor