- Type
- not stated
- Format
- Tabular test-day records keyed to animal ID, delivered as CSV exports (non-processed tests return animal ID, milk weight, sample number, components and SCC), through DART/PCDART and PocketDairy software, HerdHQ web tools and WebReports, with 70+ standardised printed report templates; interfaces to major milking and health-monitoring systems.
- Volume
- ~7-8.5M test-day analyses per year across 700,000+ cows, each carrying milk weight plus five measured components/indicators, layered with a diagnostic disease panel and genotype results; cumulative archive implies tens of millions of cow-test records, plus the backup store of records mirrored from DRMS.
- Users
- Nearly 2,070 enrolled DHI herds (stated) across 15 states, representing 700,000+ cows; herd enrollment rather than individual user registration is the population metric, with producer and advisor seats on DART/HerdHQ drawn from those herds.
- History
- 40 years
- Update frequency
- not stated
- Growth
- Mature with active product refresh — a 2025-dated territory map asset, ongoing robotic-parlor and AMR capability expansion, and a growing diagnostic/biomarker service line (AntelBio) indicate investment inside a stable, established herd base.
- Launched
- The DHI programme lineage is decades old (US herd improvement records predate the cooperative); CentralStar itself was formed ~2017-2018 by the merger of two dairy cooperatives, and DART (formerly PCDART) is a long-running product under continuous versioning.
- Delivery
- not stated
- Entity mapping
- not stated
- Sample
- not stated
- Point-in-time
- not stated
- Licence
- not stated