Herd Managment
Dairy farming is becoming an increasingly complex and sophisticated business. We understand that accurate real-time data is essential for managing your herd’s fertility, welfare, productivity and health.
Herd Management Solutions for Conventional Milking
Onsite Farm Management
AfiFarm is an advanced software suite which provides a comprehensive overview of all the vital data on your farm. Translated into a straightforward and intuitive interface, AfiFarm filters through information to keep you informed for superior decision making. AfiFarm is the smart tool for converting cow and milk data into better management, helping you understand what your cows need in order to improve their health, productivity and overall herd management.
Farmer benefits
- Improve cow health and performance with comprehensive overview of your data
- Make more informed decisions, backed by real-time information
- Smart and intuitive interface that helps you work smarter, not harder
Key features
Comprehensive farm management in a powerful package.
- Monitor cow health with an intuitive user-friendly interface
- Check how your herd is performing with instant updates
- Fertility and vitality monitoring for improved herd health
Smartphone Monitoring
The accessible Herd Management app for conventional farms. Afi2Go Pro allows you to access data for any cow quickly and easily. A powerful smartphone solution that works in real-time, Afi2Go Pro allows greater understanding of your cows and your data for stronger cow health and improved results.
Farmer benefits
Access useful information and complete histories for all your cows on the go with Afi2GoPro.
- View data for any cow in just moments for effective herd management
- Improve cow health and milk quality with real-time reports on sickness and problems
- No visits to the office requires as all operations possible via smartphone
Key features
Use Afi2GoPro to manage:
- Tasks: use lists of cows for insemination, sorting and other procedures
- Cows: set codes, move groups, sort or dry
- Treatments: vaccinations, diagnostics, drugs, hoof trimming
- Fertility: calving, pregnancy check, abortion
Herd Management Solutions for Robotic Milking
Supervise Your Milking
Crystal is the practical and easy-to-use herd management software that provides you with a wealth of information about your production and livestock, maximising your farm performance while helping to create a better work/life balance.
Farmer benefits
Accurately measure milk components during every milking without adding any reagent. This keeps you continually up to date about fat, protein and lactose levels of every milking, along with alerts for blood detection. Advanced analysis tools make it possible to detect problems like rumen acidosis and ketosis early on, letting you act quickly and limit any loss of milk.
At every step, your milk quality stays high and your cow monitoring remains effortless.
- Cow health monitoring during every milking, based on fat and protein ration
- Monitor your way of feeding during the day, based on group or herd average values
- Determine the profitability of every cow based on milk content
- Reliable separation of contaminated milk prevents you from being penalised
Key features
All the functionality you need to monitor your milking performance. CrystaLab ensure you’re always in control, improving your workflow, cow health, and milk quality.
- Accurate trend analysis of milk components
- Feed management and control
- Improve cow health (early detection of SARA, mastitis, ketosis) and genetics in your herd
- Zero maintenance and in-line cleaning
- No reagents required so no costly disposal, clean technology
Access M²erlin Remotely
From a complete farm summary to individual cow visits, the M²erlinInfo app lets you access real-time data about the performance of your M²erlin(s) at any time from any location. The M²erlinInfo app lets you access current and historical data for each cow’s milking records, or for the herd as a whole.
Farmer benefits
Smarter farm management with portable convenience. The M²erlinInfo app streamlines all of your most important data into one handy location, keeping you informed and your milking optimised.
- Measure your cows’ productivity and your farm’s efficiency
- Maximise your staff’s work-life balance
- Make more informed decisions, backed by greater insight into your milking process
- A wealth of information about machine data and production in one intuitive app
- View herd performance and farm productivity averages in order to evaluate output and optimise performance
Key features
Make your data work for you. Unlike similar tools, the M²erlinInfo app digs deep into your most useful data, for information and actions that make a difference on your farm.
- View useful parameters such as milk yield, number, duration of milkings per day and time of last milking
- Compare 10-day and 24-hour yield averages
- Set alarms for any potential problems, either with the milking machine or for an individual cow
- Easy access to cleaning records and maintenance schedules
- Fully customisable to suit your working practice
Complete Herd Visibility
MerlinView gives you an overview of your system and cows, all in one place. At just a glance, see how your system is performing and check that your cows are milking to your expectations.
Farmer benefits
MerlinView is the perfect tool for greater control of your herd and your systems, making milking more productive and easier to manage.
- Instantly determine which cows or areas need more attention
- Complete confidence that performance meets expectations in real-time
- Set customisable benchmarks for greater control over your business
Key features
Use MerlinView to instantly access this useful data:
- Cleaning checks
- Connection performance and milk yield for the cows
- Number of milkings
- Quality of milking (% of milk in the first two minutes)
- Total number of visits
- Free time of the M²erlin
MerlinView automatically identifies all cows as they are milked over a period of several hours. Any structural problems are immediately highlighted for your attention.
