At the University of Wisconsin’s Arlington Farm Research Station, they’re using modern technology to track herd health. In the past, that took a lot of time and paperwork. “We had lots of paper records and we wanted to turn that into something more functional,” says Prof. Nigel Cook, of the UW School of Veterinary Medicine.
With the help of the “DoIT” center on campus, the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine developed a series of digital teaching tools, which continue to play a role in preparing the next generation of food animal veterinarians. “We now have an app with pictures, with a scoring system, with just a touch screen system to be able to screen for a lot of cows very quickly,” says Cook.