AGFECS Auto-ID

AGFECS first installed the DFMS-500 computer system with Auto-ID in a herringbone dairy in 1994, using Allflex tags and Texas Instruments scanning equipment. These tags and the scanning equipment are now approved for the National Livestock Identification Scheme. In conjunction with the AGFECS DFMS-500 computer, the Auto-ID has proved to be a very efficient system.

Results from farmers all over Australia have proved this system to give very cost effective, faster and easier feeding.

Investment in AGFECS equipment has been designed to be staged to suit your budget, from the dispenser – to the computer, – on to the Auto-ID.

The equipment can be installed into most dairies, where cows stand at angles to the operator at angles from 45 degrees right through to 90 degrees. The DFMS-500 software ensures that the cows are in the right position before feeding commences.

The Farmer inserts the tag into the cow's right ear to comply to the NLIS standard.

Whilst this is shown using a crush, tagging can be done in a race or anywhere the animal's head can be safely accessed.

Ear tag inserted in the cow's ear. These tags are either the Nationally approved NLIS Breeder tags that stay with that animal for her entire life, or they can be a tag that is reclaimable and reusable.

The cows enter the dairy platform through a raceway from yard onto the milking platform, thereby ensuring correct identification.

The design of the raceway ensures that if a cow comes in while trying to ride another, both cows will still be correctly read by the DFMS-500.

A gate is installed on the platform side of the race to lock the cows in when that side is full – eliminating the cost of an additional gate.

The reader, which is mounted on a timber frame, reads the tag as each cow passes through the race.

The timber frame is used to avoid interference to the reader and the timber is coated with a water proof paint.