Daniel Bradbury

“Overall, the smaXtec bolus has been a game-changer for our farm, offering peace of mind and enabling more proactive, efficient care.”

Daniel Bradbury, who runs a 600-cow dairy farm with Denise Knop in Te Awamutu, New Zealand, installed smaXtec in October 2023. Since then, the farmer has seen impressive improvements in his transition cow management: “The ability to track rumination post calving and receive temperature alerts for early signs of milk fever has been invaluable”, Daniel Bradbury explains. With smaXtec, he can now even intervene before cows go down. Thanks to the smaXtec calving alert the farmer successfully saved one of his cows and its calf: “One of the standout features is the calving alert, which was also a great help when one of our cows calved a month early at grazing”, he says. During the dry cow period, smaXtec was a great help for Daniel Bradbury, as it improved the management on his farm. According to Daniel Bradbury: “Using the data over the dry cow period meant that we could better manage our feeding to really set the cows up for calving and for the season. Overall, the smaXtec bolus has been a game-changer for our farm, offering peace of mind and enabling more proactive, efficient care.”