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 ...

Seamus Quinn, who milks 90 cows with his family in Co. Leitrim, says Censortec has helped him ensure he never misses a beat when it comes to monitoring a cow’s heat. Seamus Quinn (left) says Censortec ...

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Tail paint, once the foundation of block-calving fertility, has been replaced by heat detection collars in one 260-cow herd in Somerset.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 ...

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 ...

A Welsh suckler beef herd’s calving interval has been shortened by 25 days, to 367 days, since measures including the use of heat-detection technology were introduced to improve fertility.

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 ...