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When Shelley Scott isn’t playing professional Australian rules football, she can be found working on her family’s 100-hectare dairy farm just outside of Colac in Victoria.
Shelley Scott is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Geelong Cats in the AFL Women’s competition.
When Scott isn’t kicking goals and making tackles on the field, she can be found working on her family’s 100-hectare dairy farm just outside of Colac in the Western Districts of Victoria.
Juggling her football career and responsibilities on farm was difficult, especially when Scott was travelling across the country for interstate games, until she discovered Allflex’s Dairy Monitoring System.
Using the system, she can improve the reproduction and profitability of her dairy herd by monitoring important aspects such as heats, calving rates, adverse health events and overall rumination. She can open her Allflex application on her mobile device while she is at training or travelling on the bus to her next game to see up-to-the-minute data for all her cows with a few flicks of her finger.
“I am able to check on all my cows through the Allflex app and alert someone back home if any are in need of attention.”
“The system has been excellent, particularly for times when I’m at football and travelling interstate for games around calving time.
“Having access to realtime data on how my cows are tracking has made me a better farm manager.”
One of the main benefits of the system is that Scott can run her dairy farm with less help. Instead of finding a herd manager while she is away, Shelley can keep an eye on things through her Allflex system.
“The Allflex app is great, you can look up any particular cow to check their performance and away you go. Based on my experience this year, I’ll be able to use my reports to fine-tune the cows’ feed, particularly over the months of calving to increase performance and efficiency.
“I’d encourage all dairy farmers to consider using the Allflex Dairy Monitoring System to improve the performance, profitability and management of their farm.
“The Allflex System has been a great investment. When comparing high performance sport with high performance in dairy cows, I find it’s always the one-percenters that make the difference, and the Allflex System helps me get the one-percenters right.”
Monitoring System
Recent and continuing weather conditions across Australia will have a lasting impact on feed supplies for the country’s dairy industry.
In light of possible feed availability and cost impacts, dairy farmers are looking at considering the importance of improving efficiencies and the profitability of their dairy farms.
Dairy is one of Australia’s most important rural industries, contributing A$3 billion to the Australian economy each year and employing over 42,000 local workers.
Feed conversion efficiency and early intervention for unwell or underperforming cows are important aspects in ensuring efficient milk production and consistent supply of milk products for Australian households and export markets.
Heat detection along with early detection of sickness and disease in cows via rumination data is key to the successful management of a dairy herd.
This allows dairy farmers to make informed and timely decisions which leads to greater productivity, profitability, and milk yield on farm. Cow monitoring systems, such as the Allflex Dairy Monitoring System allows farmers to monitor important aspects of a cow’s health, such as fertility and rumination via real-time data that is captured by collars or ear tags worn by cows.
The system’s main benefit is that it helps farmers manage their dairy herds more effectively so they can focus their time on other important aspects of their business and their lives.
Allflex sales lead, Clancy Jordan identifies that there are a variety of ways Australian dairy farmers can improve performance on their farm, however, it’s important to remember that farmers farm in different ways throughout different regions of Australia.
“Whether it is nutritional, agronomic, management or technological performance solutions, Australian dairy farmers tend to be at the cutting edge, in a country that has no shortage of environmental or commercial challenges to throw our way,” Jordan explains.
When it comes to Allflex Dairy Monitoring, the system provides accurate information around the reproductive performance of the cows in a herd. Whether that be detecting heats, non-cycling and irregular heat cows and also pregnancy probability.
“The Allflex System takes the pressure off throughout the calving period. And I am finding that more and more of our farmers find the health monitoring benefits and the nutrition insights being a significant contributor to the return on investment,” Jordan says.
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