SERVICES

GENETIC IMPROVEMENT STRATEGies

Each individual animal, like a cell, is the smallest living component of a greater organism, your farm.

Each individual is an micro-enterprise and an indicator of the enterprise’s overall financial well being.

Our goal as modern producers is to do more than to produce enough heifers to match the cull rate. Filling spaces with animals of unknown or substandard productivity is not profitable.

There is an “ideal” animal at each farm; those few spectacular individuals that never get ill, have fantastic fertility, and produce 125# of milk per day. Our goal is to identify that genetic profile and generate it as consistently as possible.

At Maverick Genetics we utilize your genomic data to the fullest. We work with you to create a custom designed Maverick Selection Index™ (MSI™) for your farm, synergize your farm performance data with our proprietary heifer projection model and the M-POWER™ Genomic Mating Program to help to maximize your farm’s genetic potential.

Productive animals are not created by accident. Productive animals are developed and managed by following a farm specific Genetic Improvement Strategy (GIS).

GENETIC, REPRODUCTION, AND HERD HEALTH AUDITS

Data is the DNA of Livestock Operations.

Data, like DNA, is a link to the past and the foundation for the future. Nonsense information, data errors, or omissions lead to problems for generations.

While collecting data is important, regular data analysis is essential to ensure the record’s completeness and overall informative quality. An unbiased data audit provides additional operational insights that often cannot be made from farm-based data reviews alone.

Furthermore, for producers that are already genomic testing, but questioning whether they are harnessing this data and utilizing it to its fullest potential, this would be a great starting point.

Making management decisions from biased or misinterpreted data is as good as making no decision at all.

Dairy Management Consulting

Livestock operations are like precision machinery, they must be inspected and maintained regularly.

A farm may not contain gears, but it does contain essential components, employees, animals, and operating procedures. While each element possesses separate functions, all must work in synergy for the singular purpose of driving profit potential upward.

Profit potential is increased by maintaining efficient use of operational resources, such as land, labor, and livestock. To accomplish this goal, a livestock operation must have established proven protocols. Those protocols and processes should be regularly audited and updated to best serve the farm. Otherwise, over time, the facility’s standard operating procedures will bear little resemblance to that which was originally implemented. This procedural drift is a time thief and makes management efforts less effective and the operation less profitable.

FORENSIC DAIRY ANALYSIS

Dairies are like complex living organisms with a life all their own.

When acquiring a new farm, undergoing managerial transition, or when there are questions regarding operational transparency, timely, clear-cut, objective information is of the essence.

A Forensic Dairy Analysis, is the microscope that provides an in-depth examination of herd data, feeding records, and an on-site facility and process audit, to understand not only what lies above, but below the surface.

Dairy Recruiting

Quality team members are key to the success of a dairy farm.

Turnover costs, regardless of whether a farm needs a new team member to maintain their current success or to take them to the next level. Recruitment support costs should not add to the financial burden and reduce your budget to hire the best for your farm.

As a Maverick Genetics client, we can help you to anonymously locate and filter through potential candidates, making your final decision as to which best fits your farm and your future, as simple as possible.