Background
Olly Reed farms with his parents, Andrew and Wendy, at France Farm, Cullompton. In November 2016 they constructed a new dairy unit on greenfield land adjacent to the farm’s old buildings. 160 cows are housed there all year round and milked by three Lely robots.
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System
SCR Heatime® Pro System with HRLDn tags for real-time heat detection and health monitoring
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Benefits
• Effective observation and management of herd health and fertility, by a small team
• Tight 370-day calving interval
• Alerts the farmer to yield limiting factors such as silage quality
• Reduces losses from health and lameness issues, and increases cow longevity
Summary
"We have a better understanding of each cow’s health, heat and stress parameters and can act pre-emptively to combat problems such as lameness, mastitis and poor fertility”.
