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Introducing automatic heat detection on a Swedish farm

Author: Annica Hansson (Växa) - Date: February 7, 2019

Rolf and his son Emil run a dairy farm at Edenberga in the southern part of Sweden. It consists of 100 dairy cows, a mix of two thirds of Swedish Holstein cow and one third Swedish red. The work regarding heat detection is all done manually during heat observations. Statistics from the Swedish cow data base show potential of improvement regarding fertility result.

Fever Tags for early detection of disease in calves

Author: Ben Thompson (IfA) - Date: January 29, 2019

Worgret farm is a dairy farm situated in Wareham (Dorset) with 280 Holstein-Friesian cows, calving all year round and rearing their own replacements. The milking herd graze during the summer months and are housed in the winter. The farm is owned and managed by John Baggs and partner Sophie.

John Baggs pictured with some his calves wearing fever tags.

Fever Tags

Finding lost cows with GPS trackers

Author: Olivier Guiot (ILVO) - Date: January 25, 2019

Kris and Geert operate a beef dairy farm called Saeftingherhof at the border crossing between Belgium and the Netherlands. From May untill October, the cows graze in a nature reserve area of 250 hectares, comprised of a delta of many mud flats and salt marshes with trenches that fill up twice a day with the salty Schelde water. However, one major obstacle of hectare natural grazing system is that cows can get lost or stuck in narrow trenches, and run the risk of drowning. Especially in those conditions, a GPS location tracker would be very useful.

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