Farmers should download and learn how to interact with ChatGPT or other AI engines immediately. Learning prompts to interact with these tools are the skills required of future laborers. ChatGPT won’t replace farmers, but producers who know how to effectively use ChatGPT will replace those who don’t.

We recognize that technology is a powerful tool in our toolbox, yet we also acknowledge the tool has not fully replaced the operator. A skilled herdsman or herdswoman is needed to verify and treat sick animals. A skilled milking technician is an integral part of keeping milking robots functioning and fetching cows.

The danger is that AI is using us more than we are using it. It is literally just recalling info from info it has absorbed from something else. For those reasons, we are choosing to use it sparingly. If you want the purest form of a message, you need to go to the original source – the place AI is learning from.

Using the best tools available to get the most out of your breeding program is key – and we know that artificial intelligence (AI) is helping us make smarter, more data-driven decisions that ultimately improve the health, fertility and productivity of our herds. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the things to come, and things that groups like ours are working on now.

Just as feed handling and management has evolved greatly over the last 50 years, the same will be true about data management as we move into the future. Identifying all of the data silos on farms and working to integrate them into a singular dataset will empower dairies to make more informed decisions that yield more substantial results quicker.