You are on page 1of 9

Herd Management

Software
Herd Management Software

To Manage Your Vital Knowhow


AfiFarm is a world-class herd management software. It is accessible, comprehensive,
intuitive and flexible to meet your farm's specific needs. AfiFarm is a leading software
for dairy farm management and automation.

With a range of newly developed tools, it is now more friendly and powerful than ever.

Health

Mastitis 1

Digestion Problems 11 INTELLIGENT HEALTH


Ketosis 4 DETECTION
Fresh cows to check 9 & GROUP ALERTING
Anestrus 31
Non-specific health report 16

BETTER FERTILITY
MANAGEMENT
Fertility

Animals for insemination 13


Suspected abortion 1

Groups ENHANCED
Groups Comfort 0 APPLICATION
Nutritions alerts 5

Highlights

• Afifarm ABC dashboard: the key daily • Group management – alerts on over crowding,
information, all in one place – health, fertility, bedding problems and reduced wellbeing,
production and tasks group nutrition monitoring
• Comprehensive health management, • Milk and milking: Monitoring and analysis of
including ketosis, mastitis, fresh cows’ diseases milk production and milking efficiency analysis
and digestion problems
• Herd management insights: population
• Comprehensive fertility management analysis – identifying trends, analysis of history
including heat detection, best time to with breakdown to groups or lactations
inseminate, abortion detection, task
• Going mobile: powerful, yet user friendly
management
application for Android and iOS
• Fertility analytics: bull performance,
• Integrations: over 30 import/export protocols
inseminator performance, abortion profiling,
allowing smooth integration and quality co-
preg-rate and conception rate analysis
existence with key 3rd parties such as: DC305,
Uniform Agri, PC Dart, and many others

2  |  Afimilk's Herd Management Software Afimilk's Herd Management Software   |  3


Serious management just got easier! Health, Fertility and Nutrition Monitoring

Health

Mastitis 1

Digestion Problems 11
INTELLIGENT HEALTH DETECTION
& GROUP ALERTING
Ketosis 4

Fresh cows to check 9


Anestrus 31
Non-specific health report 16

Fertility BETTER FERTILITY MANAGEMENT


Animals for insemination 13
Suspected abortion 1

Groups ENHANCED APPLICATION


Groups Comfort 0 Extra dimension to feed & health
Nutritions alerts 5

Meet AfiFarm ABC, your new farm dashboard Powerful set of new system reports developed by Afimilk experts
• Improved usability, always-on homepage • Research team of mathematics and physics PhDs, cow-specialized veterinarians and leading
epidemiologists
• All key management functions at your fingertips
• Decision support – specific indications for diseases & conditions
• Always updated - reports will open in a snap, even in the largest mega-farms
• Unmatched multi-sensor analysis: milk yield, conductivity, milk components, activity and rest

What’s in it?
Specific reports
• Current status – inventory and production
• Attention lists - powerful system reports from Afimilk’s experts • Suspected mastitis cows

• Action lists – tasks to perform, problems to solve • Suspected ketosis cows – AfiLab based detection, and risk factors (by AfiFarm)
• Fresh cows to check
• Anestrus cows
• Nutrition alerts (including SARA – Sub-Acute Ruminal Acidosis)
• Suspected abortions

4  |  Afimilk's Herd Management Software Afimilk's Herd Management Software   |  5


Mobile Applications
Easy-to-access information

• Use a RFID ear tag with Bluetooth wand

• Streamline work with sorted animals

Mobile app that provides you the flexibility • Data entered in the mobile is synced with Afifarm in real-time

to be where you're needed most

Everything you need to know

• Cow information: group, codes, milk data, insemination and pregnancy

• Cow history: treatments, events

• Sensor data: sick, animal in heat, and calving

Everything you need to do


Everything You Need to Know Afi2Go Pro provides on-the-go access to all the functionality you need from your smartphone or

At a Glance. tablet - eliminating visits to the office for animal list or for entering data.
Use the app to manage:

Anything You Need to Do • Tasks: Insemination, Preg-check, Health events, Group change, Vaccination, BCS, and more

With a Touch. • Animals: set codes, move groups, sort or dry

• Fertility: calving, pregnancy check, abortion

6  |  Afimilk's Herd Management Software Afimilk's Herd Management Software   |  7


AfiFarm and Cow Sensors

Enhanced Neck Collar for Today's Most Advanced


Cow Monitoring Cow Leg Sensor
Top Heat Detection, Rumination and Eating Top Heat Detection, Animal ID and
Monitoring, all Integrate with AfiFarm Premium Features in a Single Package
(standalone and fully configured solutions)

3 sensors, 1 health monitoring package


The AfiCollar combines rumination, chewing and activity
Premium features in a single package
detection for accurate alerts to health issues such as:
Unique set of premium features - Calving alert service
Digestion problems allows for intervention when needed. Alerts on rest time and
Fresh cows for production progress health problems help keep your herd healthy and productive.

General health

Mobile Milk sensor Rumination Animal ID Eating Long Latest mechanical 24 / 7 Calving alert Detect
management integration battery life and electronic design detection service sick cows

Heat Health Group 24/7 detection Integrates with Mobile apps Group welfare Accurate Top heat Powerful
detection monitoring behavior AfiFarm herd animal ID detection management
management software

8  |  Afimilk's Herd Management Software Afimilk's Herd Management Software   |  9


Best timing for inseminations:
Find out which cows to inseminate –
and when

Integrated Cow Monitoring,


Parlor and Herd Management
An accurate cow sensor is not enough. Farmers need a decision-making tool that is fully
integrated with herd management while aiding with process automation.
Our intelligent cow monitoring solution automatically removes cows in the voluntary
waiting period from insemination lists, and sends the updated list to the sort gate.

Highlights

• Milking parlor: The cow sensor is a solution for highly accurate in-stall animal ID.
AfiFarm helps detect animals in heat, marks them for • The stand-alone heat detection system provides animal behavior-based health alerts
insemination, and indicates ideal insemination timing. alongside accurate heat detection based on AfiCollar/AfiAct II.
• Integrated fertility management: AfiFarm software helps manage pregnancy checks,
The ability to accurately detect the start of heat signs and calculate the ideal insemination timing
abortion alerts, and insemination.
is highly valuable for farms where:
• Excludes animals with increased activity that is not related to heat (group change,
• Vet visits are carried out to identify when to inseminate to improve conception rate. pregnancy checks, and hoof trimming) to avoid false alerts.
• Conception risk must be determined to aid in cost-effective decisions on insemination. • Integrated animal sorting: smart sensors detect animals that require attention, while a
sort gate helps locate them. AfiFarm orchestrates it all.

10  |  Afimilk's Herd Management Software Afimilk's Herd Management Software   |  11


Enhanced Individual Feeding by using New in AfiFarm 5.4

• Group feeding (choose either group level or individual feed decisions)

• Analytic reports: daily consumption, feed efficiency, benchmark between


Use AfiFarm to plan and execute automated feeding programs that optimize the populations (group, lactations)
feed and supplements each animal receives according to her stage in lactation,
pregnancy, yield, and body condition.

Features and Benefits:

• Feed strategy per status: heifers, first lactation, late lactations

• ‘Special treat’: pregnant animals program

• Smart menus: automated policies by days in milk, yield, body weight and energy balance

• Safety mechanisms to avoid over-feeding or no-feeding, daily maximum and daily minimum

• Control of distribution throughout the day

• Ketosis cows menu: treatment options powered by AfiLab automatic ketosis detection

12  |  Afimilk's Herd Management Software Afimilk's Herd Management Software   |  13


Optimized Solutions for Mega-farms

Enhanced solution for mega-farms, and for


high intensity (24/7) milking regime:
• Proven with installations of over 50,000 milking cows in a single farm

• Proven with up to 8 rotary parlors in a single farm


No need to walk around the deck – you can now see everything from your
• Milking efficiency reports at end of session (for 24/7 milking) milker's place!

• Wrong group identification - enhanced Intuitive touchscreen-based control pod to help you stay on top of everything that
happens in your rotary parlor through:
• Multi-parlors: flexibly manage milking sessions for each parlor and group
(for example: some cows are milked 3 times, and others are milked 2 times) Statuses: milking session progress, groups milked and groups on the deck,
production data, milking progress on the deck
• Supporting farms with large number of groups (up to 1,000)
Alerts: cow in wrong group, conductivity (possible mastitis), cluster kick, low yield,
• An easy-to-use export-import tool for moving animals from farm to farm
canceled ACR, manager codes
(both farms must have Afifarm 5.4)
Actions: point and send to sort, keep for 2nd rotation

14  |  Afimilk's Herd Management Software Afimilk's Herd Management Software   |  15


Afimilk’s full automation and management solution is simple to use, comprehensive,
and focused on farmers’ needs. AfiFarm software interprets the data from all these
tools to provide you with comprehensive and accessible information you can use to
make more insightful and informed decisions.

operating in ~15,000
>50 countries farms automated
by Afimilk

8 Rotaries
working together in a
>10 million single farm, managed
cows managed by AfiFarm SW by Afimilk system

~110,000
milking cows-largest
herd managed using
Afimilk automation

~2.5 million
cows already managed
using AfiFarm

1/2021 www.afimilk.com

You might also like