Optiweigh is proud to be supporting the Great Australian Charity Drive. It is all for a great cause – the many thousands of Queenslanders who experience food insecurity and hunger every day.
But it’s also a great opportunity to put modern technology alongside the age old art of droving. Along with some of our friends such as Farmbot, CiboLabs, AgriWebb and Ceres Tags we’re putting our technology to use along the way.
We have supplied an Optiweigh unit to the drive (which will be donated for the auction at the end) and it is being put with the cattle when they reach their rest stops each day.
The data coming out will give us an insight into the art of the drover – the ability to find good feed along the stock route and walk the animals at a pace which will see them gaining weight to be ready for sale once they get there.
Anyone can log into our dedicated page to see the data in real-time. Visit https://cattledrive.optiweigh.io and you can view:
A – RECORDS: The number of individual animals and the total number of records for the past 5 days (don’t worry too much about the percentage of the mob – for this size mob and weight range anything over 65 animals is going to be a very accurate sample).
B – WEIGHTS: The current Average, Min and Max weights in the mob.
C – WEIGHT GAIN: The rate of weight gain in kg per day for various time periods (which will populate with more data once there are sufficient records within each time period).
D – ADDITIONAL REPORTS: Links to more reports – including a chart showing the change in mob weight over time, the distribution of weights in the mob and all the individual animal records.
Not only is this a great way to check on the art of the drover – but it is also a chance to have a look under the hood of the Optiweigh system and check out what the data looks like. When animals are weighed every day the data gives instant feedback on everything impacting their world – climate, feed, water, stress and so on.
So check out the Charity Cattle Drive data and have a think about how this information could be used to improve productivity and profitability in your own operation.