Technology news: New technology ‘predicts’ mastitis

Visitors to a farm open day taking place today in Co Fermanagh will see how new technology can be used to control mastitis, the most common and costly disease in dairy herds.

The Grey family at Oghill Farm, Killadeas, Enniskillen, were first in Ireland to install DeLaval’s HerdNavigator system.

Mastitis detection is one of the ways it offers dairy farmers a better overview of their herd, and valuable information on individual cows.