OUR FACILITY

State of the Art Dairy Research & Development Center

Our research center features three unique venues for testing tailored to the specific needs of each of our clients.

In addition to a variety of venue options, we provide essential services such as trial design, statistical analysis and interpretation of data for practical industry application. phdR&D leverages in-house and consultative resources to package your data so that it is prepared for distribution across all levels of understanding in formats ranging from presentations to manuscripts and white papers to conference proceedings.

Our Services

Bio Control

The BioControl feeding system facilitates supplementation of each individual cow. In addition to 3-times daily milking, and weighing after each milking, the BioControl feeding system permits a deeper understanding of feeding behavior with feedbunk visits per day, daily eating time, meal size, and rumination.

Pens

Pen are the model for large studies where applicability of results to commercial dairies are of utmost importance. Cows are housed in pens with sand-bedded freestalls where pen is the experimental unit.

Metabolism Stalls

Metabolism trials are ideal for pilot studies and experiments requiring frequent sampling.

Outdoor Hutches

Hutch trials are designed for calf research on wet calves from birth through weaning with the ability to track performance through the growth phase and production after calving.