TMR feed manager
Feeding systems based on a Total Mixed Ration (TMR) or a partly mixed ration (PMR) have increasingly become the chosen feeding method in milk production. Implementing TMR or PMR can reduce your labour costs, increase feed utilization, reduce digestive disturbances and provide more flexibility in feed ingredients in the ration. When well managed, all these factors together improve farm profitability by enabling you to control feed costs while maximizing milk production.
Core benefits
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Eastier to manage feeding activities
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Reduce feed shrinkage
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Improve feed bunk management
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Interface with herd management
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Graph and reports
DeLaval TMR feed manager makes it easier to manage feeding activities efficiently with ever larger herds. This feeding management program optimizes the benefits of TMR for maximum profit with minimal effort. DeLaval TMR feed manager can be connected to DeLaval mixer wagons. The software package provides a fast and efficient tool for managing costs related to feed and dry matter intakes.
DeLaval TMR feed manager provides an easy way to manage inventories, reduce feed shrinkage and improve feed bunk management. The software projects future feed needs to help with contracting commodities and with farm produced feedstuff. Rations can be regulated to compensate for forage moisture change, feed refusals and fluctuations in daily weather. Individual operator identification allows you to monitor each operator, their performance and their mixing deviations.
Interface with herd management
DeLaval TMR feed manager will work stand-alone but it can also interface with DeLaval herd management systems. Dairy farmers operating both programmes will have full control of feed distribution and crucial management information. The latter includes information on the herd’s feed consumption together with the impact of feeding and nutritional changes on herd health and fertility.
The DeLaval TMR feed manager program can provide you with over 20 graphs and reports, to help evaluate and record your feeding program.
You can get information on:
- Feed fed (amount)
- Feed consumed
- Daily tracking (feeder performance, mixing and inventory)
- Delivery summary (totals by pen)
- Feed mixing efficiency
- Clean up tracking (feed left over 24 hour period)
- Herd summary (daily, weekly and monthly)
- Graph of daily dry matter intake vs. milk production
- Evaluation
