BACKGROUND The Givat Haim Me'uhad Dairy Farm founded in 1932, is located in Israel’s fertile North. In the 1950s, when milk production quotas were set by the Israeli Government, it was given an especially large one. To this day, out of all the independent kibbutz dairy farms in Israel, Givat Haim has the largest quota: 5.4 million liters of milk per year. The dairy currently milks 480 cows three times a day, in a rotary parlor with 28 milking points. CHALLENGES Preserving the efficiency of a large dairy farm is especially challenging, with the inherent difficulties of monitoring each cow’s state of health and activities 24 hours a day. Such challenges include treating sick cows with the correct timing (especially in terms of udder infections), and identifying cows in heat within

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