Glycol chiller makes use of milk to heat sheds
The glycol chiller device, from Xchanger, saves electricity with the aid of lowering the want to chill milk and makes use of warmness extracted from the milk to warmness water and buildings.
The first warmth exchanger takes heat from milk (34-38C) and transfers the warmth electricity to the glycol, heating the glycol to approximately 30C.
Warm glycol is passed to a second warmth exchanger containing a refrigerant liquid, that is heated to 80C by way of the glycol.
The now cool glycol passes lower back to the primary warmth exchanger to cool more milk and the recent refrigerant can then be used as a heating supply.
Cost: A basic machine on a 200-cow herd doing 10,000 liters according to lactation will cost Β£15,000 and store approximately eight,500 liters of heating oil yearly.
Michael Priestley 10 February 2019
More in
DairyHealth and welfareLivestockTechnology
five modern gadgets from the Dairy-Tech occasion
Β© Tim ScrivenerΒ© Tim Scrivener
Some of the maximum innovative and value-saving dairy and farm animals devices had been on display at the RABDF (Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers) Dairy-Tech event on 7 February 2019.
Weβve picked out some of the great high-tech devices from the occasion to help farmers enhance their dairy production.
See also:
Glycol chiller uses milk to warmth sheds
The glycol chiller gadget, from Xchanger, saves power by using decreasing the need to chill milk and uses heat extracted from the milk to heat water and buildings.
The first warmness exchanger takes warmth from milk (34-38C) and transfers the warmth strength to the glycol, heating the glycol to about 30C.
Warm glycol is surpassed to a second warmth exchanger containing a refrigerant liquid, that’s heated to 80C by using the glycol.
The now cool glycol passes again to the first warmth exchanger to chill more milk and the new refrigerant can then be used as a heating supply.
Cost: A primary gadget on a two hundred-cow herd doing 10,000 liters in line with lactation will value Β£15,000 and keep about eight,500 liters of heating oil annually.
Xchanger milk chiller Β© Tim Scrivener
Facial reputation brings 24/7 cow tracking
A herd management device the use of cameras to song cows thru facial reputation is set to hit the UK market early subsequent year.
Clianthus, from Cargill, will reveal feeding and consumer behavior and offer cow control signals.
A piece of developing information set from 30,000 US cows and two all-12 months-spherical calving farms in Ireland are developing algorithms to add tracking of frame condition rating, feed control, aggressive consuming, sifting and sorting, and feed time consistency into the evaluation this 12 months.
A setup with 20 cameras consistent with shed collects 864,000 records factors according to animal day by day at 10 pictures in line with 2d on each digicam.
Individual cows are identified and uncooked information is sent to an on-website server, stating what interest each cow did for a selected length of time.
Cost: No cost statistics is to be had but. Trial paintings are ongoing.
Breeder app unearths sires that lift calf value through 50%
A cattle control app has found that dairy-go beef calves may be well worth 50% extra at slaughter from sires selected on each meat and milk yield.
The Breeder app combines weight-advantage information and carcass statistics with statutory sheep or cattle information, as well as medicine ebook information.
In addition to being a widespread herd and flock control tool, Breeder hyperlinks weight and carcass facts imported into the device to reveal the effect bulls and rams are having on the farm.
The device may have information entered manually, via CSV files or thru electronic weigh-head systems to file animal performance back to farmers.
Charts and coloration-coding show the fine and worst appearing progeny and can be used to predict the greatest advertising intervals by using displaying growth projections.
Eurofins dry matter analyzer
Eurofins has launched a pocket-sized clever sensor to permit farmers and feed advisers to analyze the dry remember of forage in much less than a minute on-farm.
They claim the device will revolutionize the manner farmers feed cows by way of permitting them to music modifications in dry be counted in actual-time and great-track rations thus.
Developed along Consumer Physics, SCO is a NIR (near infrared) spectrometer that uses algorithms to compare maize and grass silage towards a database of one,000 samples inside a 2-3% margin of errors, Eurofins says.
The database will develop as extra forages are analyzed over the path of this 12 months.
It doesnβt replace lab checking out β silages need to nevertheless be sent away for whole analysis β but it does provide an alternative solution to greater time-consuming microwave dry matter testing of forages.
Cooling mats enhance the welfare and create renewable energy
Rubber water beds outfitted with heat exchanger generation are improving cow performance and cutting power payments on farms by way of turning animalsβ warmness pressure into heat energy.
Trials have discovered the AquaClim machine has accelerated lying times via 15-20% and expanded rumination times, in step with producer Bioret Agri.
Trials looking at comparable conductive-cooling waterbed structures at Ohio State and Cornell Universities observed that mats lifted milk manufacturing through 2kg/day and 3.7kg/day, respectively.
A University of Florida trial located that cooling pregnant cows led to a 4kg/day yield carry inside the next lactation.
