Can Machine Learning Lead to Happier Cows?
Can machine learning lead to happier cows and better quality milk? TINE SA, Norway’s largest dairy cooperative with 11,400 members and 9,000 farms, believes it can.
TINE partnered with Crayon and AWS to use machine learning for monitoring individual cows, predicting milk production, and improving animal welfare. By focusing on the individuality of each cow, farmers can discern when a cow is happy, stressed, anxious, or healthy. Healthier and happier animals produce better quality milk, which in turn leads to better dairy products.
The initiative started with a simple question: what benefits the farmer? TINE wanted to develop the next generation of decision-making tools for farmers, moving from basic prediction models to ML-driven insights that could improve both production predictability and animal welfare across their cooperative farms.
Originally posted on LinkedIn