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Dr. Hendriks Wins Award for Data-Driven Dairy Cow Welfare

1/25/2026

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Dr. Stacey Hendriks of DairyNZ won the T.R. Ellett Agricultural Research Trust Emerging Scientist Award for technology-enabled indicators for grazing dairy cows.
Her findings were presented at the 2025 International Precision Dairy Farming Conference and show a shift from subjective animal-based welfare assessments to objective, data-driven methods.
Future work will integrate advanced analytics and multiple data streams to improve welfare understanding, monitoring, and farm productivity.

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Story summary

Dr. Stacey Hendriks of DairyNZ won the T.R. Ellett Agricultural Research Trust Emerging Scientist Award for technology-enabled indicators for grazing dairy cows.
Her findings were presented at the 2025 International Precision Dairy Farming Conference and show a shift from subjective animal-based welfare assessments to objective, data-driven methods.
Future work will integrate advanced analytics and multiple data streams to improve welfare understanding, monitoring, and farm productivity.