Turning Lameness Data Into Action: How Rib Arrow Dairy Built a New Hoof Health Workflow
Sep 28
1 min read
A cow doesn’t have to look lame to have a lameness problem.
At Rib Arrow Dairy, that realization has changed how the 1,500-cow dairy approaches hoof health. Employees still watch cows as they move through the operation, but they now have another source of information: continuous locomotion data that can identify changes before a problem becomes obvious to the human eye.
For producer Tyler Ribeiro, the technology has done more than help the dairy find lame cows. It has changed how the farm thinks about when a cow needs attention, how she is followed after trimming and what constitutes a lameness problem in the first place.
By Andrea Bedford
September 24, 2026 02:18 PM
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