Hamilton, 29 July 2013 – With calving underway and the industry knuckled down for the busiest period of the season, GEA Farm Technologies is reminding farmers that mating is also just around the ...

Recently they added a few more tools to that arsenal, thanks to a $70,000 grant from Woolworths’ Dairy Innovation Fund, which has helped them implement digital heat-detection collars, install a solids ...

Tail paint, once the foundation of block-calving fertility, has been replaced by heat detection collars in one 260-cow herd in Somerset. The old go-to for identifying cows on heat proved to be less ...

SenseTime Beef, a new heat detection and health monitoring system, designed specifically for beef cattle, has been launched to help improve herd productivity and reduce the number of barren cows. The ...

Now here’s an unexpected application of modern wireless technology: bovine reproduction. Swiss academics and farmers have come up with a new sensor system that can detect, with an accuracy rate of ...

Farmers have from time immemorial used expression of heat to breed livestock and other animal species. Failure to express heat behaviour is one of the things that occasion losses to dairy farmers.

The wet spring is making it harder for dairy farmers to detect if their cows are ready for mating and could affect reproduction rates. Detecting cows on heat is critical for a successful herd ...

The Dairymaster MooMonitor is the most technologically advanced method of heat detection on the market today and it can pay for itself in a matter of months. Estimates for the cost of a missed heat ...

ZOLLIKOFEN, Switzerland — When Christian Oesch was a boy on his family’s hog farm, cellphones were a thing of the future. Now, Oesch tends a herd of dairy cattle and carries a smartphone wherever he ...