Feed Management

Bunk Management

Bunk management is simply matching the amount of feed delivered to the amount of feed cattle can handle. For many, this is a gut feeling system and becomes more of an art than a science. Although the art of bunk management takes experience, using technology can reduce and simplify the need for experience.

Use accurate previous intakes to make predictions for the future by recording refusal, weather patterns, and appetite adjustments.
Adjustments are tracked on a per pen basis.
Previous day targets are validated (to account for incomplete data).
Creates consistency and accountability for feeders.

Feed Center Efficiency

The feed center is the source of the dairy's largest expense. Managing is correctly will give you the fastest and largest returns. Besides design and layout of the actual commodity area, monitoring what goes on consistently and accurately will have a direct impact on your profits. There are many critical variables to monitor in the feed center:

Understand your Load times. (start to finish)
Track the performance of your feeders. (How accurate and consistent are they? How efficient is loading and unloading? Is the delivery to the pens timely? Are the mixing times consistent?)
Evaluating the delivered ration. (Is it mixed correctly?)
Monitoring feed inventory and feed shrink.

EZfeed Mobile

The EZfeed Mobile service gives you the freedom to use EZfeed on the go. It gives you vital real-time feed information on any device wherever you have internet access. With EZfeed Mobile service you can get real-time feed data and it gives you the power to change certain critical data including:

Ingredient inventories.
Ingredient dry matters.
Pen counts, bunk calls, and target feed amounts.

Reduce Feed Shrink

Shrink is any loss of value in your feed inventory. Do you know where and how your operation is managing shrink? Because feed is your largest expense managing shrink can dramatically increase your profits. By tracking several variables you can take advantage of needless losses.

Weigh ingredients at purchase for accurate starting inventories
Understand where shrink occurs by evaluating losses.
Know the habits of feeders such as travel speeds and overfilling mixers.
Keep accurate pen counts and intake measurements to reduce refusal.
Profile bunks for optimal feeding schedules.

Manage Cattle Feed Inventory

Starting inventories, supplies on hand, accurate premixes, refusal—all things that can be accurately measured and therefore managed. By making it easy to input (and even automate) ingredient tracking, real feed problems can be addressed head on.

Accurate starting inventory and monitoring inventory received.
Track feed decisions and changes made by who, when, where and amount.
Set ingredient reorder points and automatically flag the ingredient.
Evaluate and customize more than 100 standard reports and graphs.

Solve Real Feed Management Problems

EZfeed software is the only feed management tool on the market that directly targets real feed management problems. Consistency results in an efficient feed operation and better cow health, while providing accountability for feeders.

Create pre-defined loads which can be organized by location, mixer, and feeder.
Establish highly accurate rations as the application displays exact ingredients on the scale indicator.
Provide accurate bunk adjustments.
Mixing pauses can be controlled for maintaining ration consistency.

Optimize Milk Production Through Feeding

Set up an unlimited number of ingredients, pens, rations, premixes, feedings, mixers, or users.
Track milk production and components by tank, pen, or pen groups.
Understand your break-even milk price.
Monitor milk production versus feed costs.

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