Red LED light therapy can be beneficial for humans, but how about for cows? Well experiments with both red and blue LED lights are being tested at Roden Echo Valley dairy farm in West Bend. 

Owner Rick Roden says they have been testing these lights for the past two years to see if they can improve milk production and kill bacteria in bedding areas. Roden provides more insight into how this research is being conducted and what they’ve seen so far.

“The red LED lights are being tested to improve milk production while the blue flights are being used to test the potential of killing bacteria in the bedding areas.” says Roden. “We’ve hung eleven of these lights above the free stalls in our barn and the cows under these lights are all second plus lactation.”

Roden worked with Dave Klumb of White Leaf Technologies Group to determine the wavelength frequencies needed as well as how the study was going to be conducted. The lights are on 24/7 and the cows haven’t been bothered by them.