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From 13 - 16 November 2012 Nedap will present itself at EuroTier 2012 in Hannover. This year, Nedap will introduce a brand new image. Nedap’s new unique selling proposition ‘Vital element for growth’ expresses the specific added value offered by the company in service provision and products: the livestock industry is facing the challenge of producing sufficient safe, affordable and sustainable food supplies, using ever-scarcer resources, whilst maintaining the highest standard of animal welfare. Nedap recognises these challenges and provides the exact technological solutions that make individual animal care and monitoring manageable; in any type of circumstances. Nedap’s solutions enable sustainable growth for livestock producers – with a healthy balance between work, profit and welfare. The asterisk, the new icon which has been added to the Nedap corporate image, symbolises this added value which Nedap represents within the livestock industry.
Nedap will be present with solutions for dairy farming (Hall 27, Stand G30), pig farming (Hall 11, Stand D04) and Livestock & Chain (Hall 27, Stand G30 & Hall 11, Stand D04). Naturally, the company will once again be introducing a number of new products for the various segments. In the dairy farming segment Nedap presents a neck label for RealTime Heat Detection, and the Nedap Cow Positioning and Heat Detection system. For pig farming, Nedap is continuing to broaden its product range ensuring that the entire industry is now provided with solutions for individual animal management. During EuroTier 2012 Nedap will also proudly introduce Pig Performance Testing and Nedap Farrowing Pen Feeding. With Livestock & Chain, Nedap offers a complete package comprising products for electronic identification of individual animals (cattle, pigs, sheep and goats). Individual animal identification forms the foundation for barn automation and quality programmes to support the entire livestock sector and chain.
Attention for the individual pig in the entire pig farming sector
For decades, Nedap has enabled individual attention for pregnant sows in group housing with pig feeding stations. At EuroTier 2010 Nedap Sorting was added to the portfolio, which means that finishers are housed in large social groups, whilst their weight development is determined daily and the animals are guided to the most suitable type of feed. EuroTier 2012 will see the launch of two new Nedap products, which will make individual attention for animals possible in even more locations on the pig farm.
Nedap Pig Performance Testing is a new solution focused on breeding to be introduced by Nedap at EuroTier 2012. The system automatically registers the growth and feed intake of each pig. This makes it easy to identify the best performing animals and selection is made simple; based on the most important production characteristics.
What makes Nedap Pig Performance Testing unique is the accuracy of data collection, the ease of operating use in the barn and the benefits of safeguarding valuable information on a central server. The system continuously monitors the specific weight of the feed and automatically stops when there is no feed. The animals are kept in small social groups; similar to regular housing of finishers.
A second new product which will see its international launch at EuroTier 2012 is Nedap Farrowing Pen Feeding. This system enables the sow farmer to provide animals, in the temporary accommodation of the farrowing pen, with automated and correct feed dosing. On the basis of individual physical characteristics such as lactation, litter number, number of piglets and date of farrowing, sows are cared for according to their individual needs. In order to optimise the feed intake Nedap Farrowing Pen Feeding doses regularly in small rations; spread over the day and adjusted to the number of suckling piglets.
With this new system Nedap enables the sow farmer to safeguard the health, results and welfare of their animals; not only in the farrowing house but now also in the farrowing pen. And all this in an efficient and labour-saving way.
November 2012 - Nedap
