Setup & support
Get your farmers quickly using StockManager with you to plan, manage and monitor key events on the farm. Provide guidance on how to best utilize the tool to collect data, make optimal decisions and implement them while easily maintaining compliance records.
Setup & support
Get your farmers quickly using StockManager with you to plan, manage and monitor key events on the farm. Provide guidance on how to best utilize the tool to collect data, make optimal decisions and implement them while easily maintaining compliance records.
Event assistance & outsourcing
Provide assistance or outsourcing of key livestock events using StockManager to capture event data and implement decisions. Promote a combination of vet and tech resources to provide cost effective outsourcing of common livestock events.
Feed planning
Optimal animal condition across the year is key to driving results and effective feed planning is a critical component of this. Provide your customers with guidance on how to effectively use animal data, drafting/grouping & feed planning tools to ensure animals are being fed most effectively with available resources.
Setup & support
Get your farmers quickly using StockManager with you to plan, manage and monitor key events on the farm. Provide guidance on how to best utilize the tool to collect data, make optimal decisions and implement them while easily maintaining compliance records.
Performance planning
Improving key metrics requires a combination of benchmarking to determine opportunities, effective planning, ROI analysis of improvement options and monitoring of results. The combination of StockManager and vet resources provide a powerful set of tools to help your farmers effectively achieve their goals
Event assistance & outsourcing
Provide assistance or outsourcing of key livestock events using StockManager to capture event data and implement decisions. Promote a combination of vet and tech resources to provide cost effective outsourcing of common livestock events.
Feed planning
Optimal animal condition across the year is key to driving results and effective feed planning is a critical component of this. Provide your customers with guidance on how to effectively use animal data, drafting/grouping & feed planning tools to ensure animals are being fed most effectively with available resources.
Performance planning
Improving key metrics requires a combination of benchmarking to determine opportunities, effective planning, ROI analysis of improvement options and monitoring of results. The combination of StockManager and vet resources provide a powerful set of tools to help your farmers effectively achieve their goals
Grazing Check-In
Overview
Capturing animal information, drafting and reporting baseline information to owners can be accomplished using the following steps in StockManager:
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Setup Group(s) (if applicable) in the system using the Groups screen
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Collect animal tag information and/or attributes using either:
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Configured Events screen (also enables drafting based on collected attributes)
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Report added animals using NAIT Reporting screen
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Report baseline information to animal owners using the Animal Analysis screen
Setup Groups
Setting up Grazing Group(s) to assign animals to provides a simple way to collect data, calculate and report metrics to owners for Groups of animals.
The Group Settings screen displayed below shows a few examples of how Grazing Groups can be setup:
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The Non-ID Group (Farm A) Ewes could be setup to capture the counts and metrics of these animals
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ID Group (Farm B) Cows could be setup to capture, track and report the metrics of these animals
Collect Animal Information - Configured Events Screen
The Configured Events function is typically the preferred method to quickly capture information on a group of grazing animals. It provides the ability to:
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Capture EID or VID tag information, create new records for them, add data to these records and draft them based on rules you establish
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Capture data on all animals in a Non-ID Group and add counts, averages and other Group data to the Non-ID Group record
The screens displayed below show an example of the setup (left) and event (right ) screen for an Grazing Check-In event for tagged animals where weight is being auto-populated from a Bluetooth enabled weigh indicator and ID Group "Farm B Cows" is added as default data. Animals are being drafted according to weight ranges.
The screens displayed below show a similar setup for an Grazing Check-In event of non-tagged animals where weight is being auto-populated and animals are being drafted according to weight ranges. After this event is completed, the count of animals and their average weight will be added to the Non-ID Group record.
Collect Animal Information - EID File Import Screen
The EID File Import function can be used to quickly add new EID tagged animals into the system along with common data associated with all animals on the session file. The screen provides the ability to:
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View session files on Bluetooth enabled Tru-Test EID Reader
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Import all animals on session file (will create new records if not currently in the system) into the system
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Add common data to all animals in the session file - e.g. Group = (ID Group setup above), etc.
To import an EID Reader file from the screen displayed below, simply:
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Select the IMPORT SESSION button
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Select an EID Reader from a list of previously paired EID Readers
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Select a session file from those displayed after retrieving them from the selected EID Reader
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Create an Import Name for later reference
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Select the Animal Type (this will be assigned to all animals if not currently in they system)
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Select data to add to all animals in the session file
NAIT Reporting
If animals are Cattle or Deer, the last step is to register these to your farm in the NAIT system. StockManager makes this easy by providing a web portal screen that shows all NAIT reporting requirement by status and animal type.
To report animals to NAIT:
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From the web portal - select Reporting menu item at the top and then NAIT Reporting from the drop down menu
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Select the Farm name that you would like to do reporting for from the drop down list of Farms at the top left.
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Once the farm has been selected, a screen similar to what is shown below will be displayed. This will show the number of animals added to the system.
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Simply select the SEND TO NAIT button to register these animals.
Note: If any numbers are associated with Grazed Out or Sold animals, the system will walk you through additional steps to identify the NAIT number of the farms where the animals went.
Report To Owners
If Checked-In animals have individual records, you can quickly report counts and metrics for these animals at Check-In to owners by:
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Animal Analysis screen
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Select the Animal Type
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Add Filter - Group and select the Group name assigned to the Checked-In animals
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Add Metrics for animals and take a screen shot that you can email to the owner
To provide more discrete information on individual animals, simply:
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Select the VIEW ANIMAL LIST button which will display a listing of all animals in the Group
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Select the CHANGE COLUMNS button to adjust the information that is displayed for the animals
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Select the CSV EXPORT button to generate a .csv file containing the displayed data and bring up available options to forward it to the owner
If Checked-In animals do not have individual records, you can quickly report counts and metrics for these animals at Check-In to owners by:
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Animal / Non-ID Group screen
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Select SEARCH/ADD
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Select Non-ID Group
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Select the Non-ID Group for the Checked-In Animals
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Make a print screen of the record and email to owner
