In Methven, New Zealand, Barry Flynn milks a 620-strong Friesian herd on 196Ha. He’s implemented Datamars Livestock’s Tru-Test Automated Heat Monitoring with Tru- Test Active Tag collar solution to track cow behaviour and improve animal health and breeding performance. We wanted to explore how we could improve our breeding performance. One key strategy for [...]
Datamars Spain has put much effort into its waste management practices in recent years, including clear in-house sorting protocols and staff training. Alongside significant reduction and reuse activity which reduces the total amount of waste from operations, 100% of all remaining waste is recycled (70% of waste being paper and board). This importantly means [...]
Agtrac, the agricultural service provider that Datamars owns 51% of, developed a solution encompassing Datamars Livestock software, readers and training to accurately and effortlessly test and track animals for tuberculosis disease in New Zealand. On-behalf of OSPRI, AsureQuality tested over 2.6 million animals in a year. Datamars was the only provider able to provide [...]
Pig farming is one of the fastest growing livestock activities in Uganda, increasing not just food production, but also income and employment. In 2020 Datamars partnered with the Roslin Institute, a word-leading institute for animal science research, with genetics specialists AbacusBio and Ugandan based organisations Vetline Services and Makere University on ‘PigBoost’. PigBoost is [...]
Through our “Spotlight on” series you get to meet some of our amazing employees from around the world and hear what working for Datamars looks like for them. In this edition we meet Alice Arnoldi, Product Manager – Pet Identification, based in Switzerland. Tell us about your personal background? I am Italian and graduated [...]
At the beginning of this month the Datamars Brisbane team reached a whopping 1308 lost time injury free days, and those numbers continue to grow. This is no mean feat, so we spoke to the Datamars Australia Operations Manager, Grant McVie, about how he cultivates a safety-first culture in the workplace to achieve this. [...]
As part of our Datamars ‘Spotlight On’ series, Juliette Banks, Communications Manager, caught up with Davide Mazzarella, Injection Molding Technician, based in Slovakia. Tell us about your personal background I grew up in Ivrea, a town in the province of Turin, in Italy. I studied advertising graphics at school even though I felt it [...]
International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. To learn more, you can click HERE. This week we celebrated the wonderful women who work at Datamars. We spoke to a few [...]
As part of our Datamars ‘Spotlight On’ series, Juliette Banks, Communications Manager, caught up with Cameron Ewart, Vice President, Pet ID North America. Tell us about your personal background? I was raised on a sheep and beef farm in Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand. I never thought I’d want or need [...]
In early December 2021, the flagship Datamars Livestock activity monitoring solution, Tru-Test Active Tag, was successfully installed on Pickart Dairy Farm in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, United States. This total monitoring system, released in 2021, provides livestock producers like the highly regarded Pickart operation which runs over 1000 cows, with data that combines gesture [...]
