BACKGROUND Ray DeVere and his wife Catherine run River Ridge Dairies on the Sunshine Coast with their two kids. They milk a mixed herd of around 200 Jersey and Brown Swiss cows daily, producing about 1.2 million litres annually. CHALLENGES Until recently, heat detection was done visually. In addition to using scratch patches, Ray was relying a lot on hormones and synchronised breeding, as he says, “to make up for poor heat detection”. To improve conception rates and gain peace of mind, Ray started looking into an electronic monitoring program in 2017. SYSTEM River Ridge Dairies soon made the move to the Allflex SenseHub solution with cSense Flex neck tags. Ray chose the Premium plan to monitor cows’ heat and health. “We installed the SenseHub system because our business was lac

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