A smarter and faster feeding solution for dairy cows

01-07-2022 | Smart farming | News

After installing the Topcon Feed app, your phone becomes an extension of your weighing system with lots of tricks that make the loading process easier. Photo: Stefan Koopmans

Software manufacturer Topcon introduces a practical mobile app to make feeding and loading the feed mixer faster and easier. With this your phone becomes an extension of the weighing system.

After installing the free FEED App on your iPhone or Android device, you can pair your phone via Bluetooth to your feed mixer’s weighing system or forage box feeder. You can enter rations in the app and correct them for the actual number of animals.

What is also convenient: you can see a copy of the weighing display on your phone. With this, you have a view of the weight in the feed wagon in every position in your tractor’s or shovel’s cabin.

Once you have entered the loading sequence and quantity, the app will guide you through the loading sequence and will indicate exactly – through comprehensible screens – how much of which product you still need to load. Even better, the system saves what is loaded. That means you can always make corrections if too much or too little feed has been loaded.

Do you already have a Topcon/Digi-Star weighing system? You can see from the Bluetooth logo and the Bluetooth sticker on the weighing display whether the app and therefore the phone can be paired. If that is not the case, you can adjust the current weighing system with an update or Bluetooth module for € 1,000 to € 1,500. Photo: Bas van Hattem

Pairing Bluetooth with the Topcon weighing system

Anyone who has a Topcon weighing system can see from the Bluetooth logo and the Bluetooth sticker on the weighing display whether the app and therefore the phone can be paired. If that is not the case, you can adjust the current weighing system with an update or Bluetooth module for € 1,000 to € 1,500 (depending on your wishes).

Topcon can also link Wi-Fi modules to your weighing system. You can then send data directly from our computer to the weighing system and vice versa. The mobile app is therefore a nice and more practical intermediate step.

Tap FEED module on computer

Simultaneously with the FEED App, Topcon introduces the TAP platform (Tap stands for Topcon Agriculture Platform) software for the home computer. There is a basic version, the ‘Tap FEED lite’, and a more extensive version, the Tap FEED Advisor. In this software, the livestock farmer can quickly and conveniently enter and calculate rations, the loading sequence and, above all, quickly adjust the amount the dry matter content or the number of animals. Moreover, data history is always available.