The feed is under control!

Feed accounts for at least 50% of all the livestock production costs. However, very often even the most cutting-edge feed harvesting equipment and correctly formulated rations do not guarantee a performance increase of the dairy herd.

Sometimes, the yields grow very slowly or, which is worse, decrease. As a rule, the reason for it lies in both the incorrect preparation and distribution of feed.

NivaControl specialists have designed an automatic feeding system, which makes the whole process of feed mixing and distribution transparent, accurate and systemised.

‘The diet balanced by a computer can be different from the one that is distributed onto the feed bunk’, says Lavrenty Plotnikov, Head of NivaControl Sales Department. ‘Even the most diligent operator can sometimes fail to dose all the components correctly for this or that physiological group of cows. With our innovation, NivaControl Livestock Farm system, an operator’s tablet gets a specification with precise indications of the components, their proportions and locations.

At the same time, a nutrition specialist can control the whole process remotely, and any deviation from the specification is registered. The information is transmitted to the server and can be consolidated in any type of report (production, herd size, milk yields, feeding report, etc.).’

As compared with other equivalent software systems, NivaControl Livestock Farm is integrated with the 1C: Farm Management accounting system, i.e. feed loading and distribution are registered in the accounting system of the farm immediately, and the remaining amount of this or that diet component is recalculated automatically as soon as it is loaded into a mixer wagon. Thus, the work of the Livestock and Economy Departments is based on the same documents, which eliminates double reporting.

The data on gross milk yields and milk sold is also passed to NivaControl Livestock Farm. It helps to analyse the changes in milk production, monitor diet efficiency and, consequently, find the reasons for growing or decreasing yields.

The specialists inform that NivaControl Livestock Farm has already been fully tested on one of EkoNiva’s farms. According to the herd managers, implementation of this system has helped to increase milk production by 2 kg per cow a day, on average.