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Intelligent Solutions for Smarter Farming
Today, PigVision is the new standard for modern pig management data care and solutions. With the use of electronic sow tags and tag readers from Allflex, data can remotely be transferred to the PigVision mobile App, whether a sow needs to be served, weaned, removed or whether you just want to open her sow card for a quick assessment of her production history. All in super-fast time.
Allflex Livestock Management
Allflex Livestock Intelligence’s mission began with a simple idea – with the ability to accurately identif each animal on your farm, you would also be able to generate the data you needed to accurately manage the life of every individual animal and simultaneously acquire the ability for precision management of your entire herd. Ultimately, this has paved the way to provide complete livestock traceability for numerous countries around the world.
Tegnologie Help Boere met Naspeurbaarheid
Allflex SA wil vanjaar op die LRF-Veeskool aan vleisbeesboere demonstreer how ‘n robuuste, praktiese elektroniese identifikasiestelsel op die plaas boere kan help om die basiese beginsels van veeboerdery deurgaans korrek toe te pas.
Get Cow Status 24/7 in the Palm of your Hand
Imagine having the ability to monitor your cows, wherever they are and wherever you are, so you can make timely decisions about health, breeding, feed management and grazing – all from your smart phone or the convenience of your office.
Today that is possible, and affordable, with SenseHub Beef, a new electronic animal monitoring solution from Allflex Livestock Intelligence.
Stockman School “Back to Basics”
Looking at the agricultural sector, it is apparent that new technological innovation is occurring at an ever-increasing pace. It seems like every day you hear about a new application, new system or new technological breakthrough that will help your farm reach the next level. Whilst these technological innovations are certainly useful in many regards and the constant drive for improvement and advancement has enabled thousands of farmers optimise and streamline their farming enterprises, it can also be a source of distraction from something that is even more important – the job of farming, and doing it well on a consistent basis.
That is why the team at Allflex Livestock Intelligence believes that this year’s theme for the 2020 Stockman School, “Back to Basics” is so appropriate. Last year, at the Stockman School Conference, Allflex Southern Africa presented beef farmers from across Sub-Saharan Africa with our latest SenseHub Beef Cow Monitoring System. SenseHub Beef is an advanced cow monitoring system that uses an ear tag sensor and advanced algorithm to enable farmers to remotely monitor the reproduction (estrous activity) and health of their cattle in real-time by measuring rumination, eating time and activity. This year, however, we’re bringing the focus back to the fundamentals that have always been synonymous with the Allflex brand – accurate identification of individual animals using electronic identification ear tags (EID tags). Allflex knows that for our company to survive, grow and thrive in the future, we need to partner with farmers, helping to ensure that their farm businesses remain successful. One of the key components of a sustainable, successful farming enterprise is the ability to get the basics right – and do it consistently over a long period of time.
To Allflex, that means ensuring that farmers can accurately identify individual animals consistently and build an instantly accessible record of the life history (medical, reproduction and production data) for every individual animal on your farm. Allflex’s low frequency EID tags are a commercially proven tool that has helped thousands of livestock farmers across the world implement precision management in their livestock enterprises for many years. Our goal for the 2020 Stockman School is to demonstrate to beef farmers how implementing a robust, practical EID system on your farm will help you get the basics right, including:
- Getting an animal’s ear tag number right – every time. Accuracy of identification is critical to a farmer’s data integrity and precision management
- Integrate seamlessly with weighing solutions to instantly import an animal’s weight from your scale and assign it to that individual animal’s EID number, thereby removing the possibility of human error
- Further enhance the precision management of your animals by using Allflex’s EID tags to integrate and enable various automatic weighing and sorting gate solutions
- Use Allflex’s affordable range of EID Readers to generate lists of animals in a group – generating an accurate report of the quantity and identity of each individual animal scanned
- Use user-friendly software that is fully integrated with Allflex’s EID tags and EID Tag Readers to build an instantly-accessible history for every animal on your farm
- Export reproduction, medication/vaccination or production and weight data to a shareable data file for import into other management systems and software
Allflex SA looks forward to use this year’s Stockman School as a showcase of the practical tools we offer farmers to enhance their precision livestock management – assisting them in getting the basics right and paving the way to achieving a greater level of traceability, from farm to fork, on the producer level.
To this end, Allflex will also use the Stockman School platform to provide more details regarding a groundbreaking traceability and certification pilot project, which we are excited to be a part of. The pilot project will be launched during the upcoming 2020 calving season in conjunction with MSD Animal Health and one of the leading feedlots in South Africa. This exciting pilot project aims to implement a full traceability, preconditioning and health certification scheme, facilitated by MSD Animal Health, and in partnership with select local veterinarians and – calf producers. The aim of the pilot project is to certify the health status of each calf sold through the scheme, ensuring that certified calves are from farms where all the basics have been done right, such as complying with the minimum requirements of a specified medication and vaccination protocol and being tagged with a unique 15-digit Allflex tamper-proof low frequency EID tag. Allflex is proud to be a part of this exciting initiative and we look forward to sharing more project details during the upcoming Stockman School.
