Return on
investment (ROI)
Cost saving can be achieved with:
- Optimised reproduction rate €€€
- Reduced labour costs €€€
- Early disease/heat stress detection €€€
- Higher milk yield €€€
- Removal of stock bull €€
- Individual animal history, improving EBI €€
- Optimise calving system €€
- Reduced cost of Artificial Insemination (AI) €€
- Less use of antibiotics €
- Reducing veterinary bills €
- Reduced feed costs €
Additional benefits include:
- Enhanced ‘Herdsmanship’
- Improved Work-Life Balance
- Easier farm management - metric driven
- Reduced reliance on skilled labour
- Improved farm safety (no stock bull)
- Focus on sustainability and animal health
- Probiotics over antibiotics
- Monitor animal stress levels/herd behaviour
- Utilise IoT network for alternative data gathering
- Automatic integration to other farm systems
Payback (€’s only) achievable in less than 2 years.
Farm size, type, infrastructure and existing investment in technology will have a +/- impact on Return on Investment rate.
