September 25, 2020

Your Perfect Dairy Business Internship

In April 2025, the US dairy genetic base was updated to reflect the amount of genetic progress made since the last base change five years ago.

Develop your consultative sales skills and build your portfolio of large, progressive dairy accounts.

Work with our current network of sales managers to implement customized solutions focused in any or all of these key management areas.

Genetic Consulting

Implement customized genetic plans, optimize herd inventory management with conventional, sexed, and beef x dairy strategies, and prove genetic progress through assessment reports from DairyComp.

Reproductive Management

Develop your understanding of advanced reproduction protocols, understand and sell the benefits of the Alta COW WATCH activity monitor system for improved repro results, and consult on management strategies using DairyComp data.

Calf Management

Use research data to explore best practices for managing the health and productivity of neonatal calves, including colostrum protocols at birth and as part of post-day 1 feeding programs.

Transition & Fresh Cow Management

Help producers get their cows off to the best start after calving. Use DairyComp data to consult on fresh cow protocols utilizing Alta COW WATCH and RumiLife CAL24.

If you have a passion for the dairy industry and helping progressive dairy producers, we want to work with you.

We’re currently in the process of selecting our 2021 Alta interns. Please check back for future internship opportunities.

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How does this genetic base change compare to previous base changes?

We’ve made more genetic progress in the past five years than during any other five-year span in recent history.

The charts below show the base change numbers for 2025, 2020, 2015, and 2010. As you can see from the charts, the base change in 2025 is significantly more for most traits than it was for previous base changes.

That means we’ve made more progress over the last five years than during any other five-year span in recent history.

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