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Great NEWS! Teagasc dairy research facility at Moorepark, Ireland has recently extended their RIC1 system with our new state of the art RIC2Discover system and upgraded the system to the Apollo RIC2Discover software. This gives Teagasc to opportunity to continue their individual feed intake research with dairy cows with increased research capacity.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is nearly finished building the Klosterman Feedlot Innovation Center at the UNL Eastern Nebraska Research Extension and Education Center. When completed, it will be one of the largest commercial-sized feedlot research facility at a university setting in the world!  Featuring the latest innovations, a commercial-scale feedlot and an animal handling facility will be used in teaching, research and extension efforts by the Nebraska Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources . With the Klopfenstein Feed Technology complex the university wants to study how individual animals respond to specific feed, feed additives and other inputs. The RIC2Discover consists of a feed-weigh trough combined with an intelligent feeding gate to gather individual animal data regarding feed intake. The RIC2Discover is one of the featuring innovations in the Klopfenstein Feed Technology complex. With forty RIC2Discover systems the university can collect a lot of data for their studies. Thank you University of Nebraska-Lincoln for your trust. We cannot wait for the open house this Spring. There is a lot 2Discover. #animalnutrition #farming #cattle

Another super nice project finished this month in the USA! The University of Wisconsin-Platteville installed a state-of-the-art RIC2Discover system with 24 RIC feed-weigh troughs in their dairy research barn. The university is very proud to have this equipment in the dairy barn, to be able to do individual feed intake and feed intake behavior research. This project was supported by the Dairy Innovation Hub. #DairyResearch #AnimalNutrition #Dairy

𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐒𝐀. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐬. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲!!

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗥𝗜𝗖𝟮𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱! 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁! 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘁𝟮𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿!

𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐈𝐂𝟐𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝. Since 2018 ACBM (Associacao Criadores Bovinos Mertolengos) in Evora Portugal, is using very successfully, a RIC system for the individual feed intake research for the performance testing of their growing animals. Because of the increasing demand for individual animal performance data, ACBM recently increased their RIC system with 9 additional RIC2Discover feed-weigh troughs and upgraded the complete installation to the new state of the art RIC2Discover Apollo software. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐂𝐁𝐌 𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫.

The installation work is finished. See the beautiful result. There is still a lot 2Discover. RIC2Discover.

The project continues!   The RIC2Discover system arrived this week at the Dairy Research farm of the University of Guelph, Ontario Canada. The 2 containers with equipment are unloaded and brought to the dairy barn, where our excellent installation crew will start the installation work in the next few days.   There is more to come, we will keep you posted about the progress of this very nice project.

Another RIC2Discover system has been loaded for transportation to our long-time customer The University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. They will add the 60 new RIC2Discover feed-weigh troughs to there existing RIC 1 system.   We will keep you posted about the progress of this very nice project, which will be installed later this year.