Case study of RFID application in modern dairy farms

Application of RFID in modern dairy farms In dairy farms with large breeding scale, high feeding level, and high individual production capacity, the conventional manual marking and naked eye identification of cows are difficult, the resolution efficiency is low, and the error rate is high. High, it is difficult to accurately and comprehensively grasp the production level and individual status of the dairy cow group, and it can no longer meet the requirements of modern cattle farm management. As a new non-contact rapid automatic identification technology, RFID is being more and more widely used in modern and large-scale breeding industries. This technology can be applied to many aspects of dairy farming and production, including automatic rationing of cattle rations, statistical analysis of milk production, individual cow identification, disease monitoring and prevention, product quality control, animal traceability and tracking, etc.

Individual accurate electronic Files are different from traditional cow cards and paper files. The electronic identification designed for cows Stores various basic information of cows and has a 16-digit number compiled strictly in accordance with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) coding standard. The electronic identification is fixed on the animal body when the cow is born. The electronic identification is one-time use, uniformly numbered, and has a unique number. From then on, the electronic identification will accompany it throughout its life, thus becoming the only one in the world and achieving the 100-year mark for one animal. Electronic signs are usually designed and packaged in various forms such as injection implant type, ear hook type, rumen type, and foot ring type. In practical applications, through supporting software management programs, various dynamic data can also be stored correspondingly and updated in real time to form a dynamic database of individual cows.

Real-time monitoring and data collection use wireless radio frequency technology to monitor the status of dairy cows in real time and collect various data information recorded by electronic tags in a timely and accurate manner. The wireless radio frequency system can dynamically identify and record the cattle's weight, feed intake, exercise and other data. Combined with other sensors in each breeding module to transmit and record the body condition of the cattle, the ambient temperature and humidity of the cattle farm, and dynamically monitor the status of the cattle on the computer terminal. Monitoring, once the data collected by the system exceeds the health warning limit set in the computer, the management system can automatically identify it and provide timely feedback, providing managers with information to judge the physiological status of cattle, adjust feed structure and supply quantity, and formulate treatment plans. Reference data.

Equipped with modules for auxiliary feeding management, the radio frequency system can be used as an information platform to carry many auxiliary feeding modules. The exercise pedometer on the electronic logo is used to record the amount of exercise of the cows, and the cumulative data and standard parameters in the database are combined to determine the stitch health status and estrus identification of the cows; equipped with a precision feeding module, the cows are in different growth stages and have different milk yields on the same day. , comprehensively train in the computer system to calculate the optimal amount of concentrate feed, and feed it back to the precision feeding system for precise feed feeding to achieve the purpose of feeding different individual cows; equipped with a milk analysis and detection module, it can analyze the performance of each cow. Monitor, analyze, record and compare data such as milk yield, milk production efficiency, milk composition, etc. to timely grasp the udder health status of cows and whether the feed formula is scientific and perfect; equipped with a milking station monitoring module, which can record each shift entering the milking parlor. , the milking time, milking status, and equipment status of each cow, from which managers can find out the standardization and proficiency of the milking workers in the milking process, and the milkers can also find out the milking process. Questions are fed back to managers using a preset digital language input system.