Stuart Farm is using the FarmIQ System to maximise its hogget lambing results, with each weaned lamb raising the dam’s productivity by at least $55 per hogget mated.
Animal health trend reporting through the FarmIQ System has shown up some animal health issues at Whangara Farms on the East Coast. They are now using the System to assess animal health treatments.
Farmers may not be aware of diseases and defects that are costing them in lost returns because they are not usually visible. Using reporting through the FarmIQ System, one farmer has found that he was losing money through a high rate of inoculation defects in lambs.
Stuart Farm in Fiordland is using the FarmIQ System to analyse its performance in targeting a market window. Getting finished animals away during such a window can lift returns.
Mangarata Farm in Wairarapa has been recording information for individual lambs against EID tags. When the farm information is integrated with slaughter information about these animals, they are able to make useful performance comparisons. For example, they have assessed the genetics being used.
On North Canterbury property White Rock Mains, they are breaking out of a cycle that was suppressing their ewes' reproductive performance. This could deliver a lamb crop worth an extra $52,000 at weaning.
