The workflow of feeding – integrate fodjan into the farming process
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Have you just started with fodjan? Then we recommend that you also read the following help article on setting up your fodjan farm: First steps in fodjan: Our recommendations
fodjan supports you to get a 360° – view on the feeding:
- From planning feedstuffs and rations in the feed groups.
- via feeding
- and documentation of these and other key figures relevant for you
- up to intelligent reports with which you can determine the success of your feeding strategy and make conclusions for planning.
At the same as that, fodjan promotes collaboration between different people involved in feeding, such as for herd managers, feeders, veterinarians and advisers – all on the same platform, more about collaboration here.
In the following article, we would like to introduce you to the workflow of feeding with fodjan, as many of our users have integrated it into their farm processes. The scope of usable functions depends on your product package. Nevertheless, the 360° approach is included in every package.
fodjan can support you at several points in the ration planning process:
- Collaborative work on feedstuffs, feed groups and rations. More about collaboration and assignment of user rights on your fodjan farm.
- Managing the feed stock
- Create and adjust feedstuffs
- Changes in feedstuffs, e.g., info about new analyses via the laboratory interface
- Importing the feed analyses
- Overview on feedstuff ranges
- Working with rations
- Creating, adjusting and scheduling of rations
- View ration suggestions
- Ration optimization to find and improve rations fitting your feeding targets (animal health, performance, cost, etc.)
- and for advisers: support in the management of farms
- when creating and setting up farms
- overview over feedstuff changes, new attests, etc. in your adviser cockpit
When you have created and planned your rations, fodjan also supports you with the feeding itself. There are various options for this:
- Print recipe from fodjan for the feeder
- Transfer rations directly to your feed mixer or scale via the feed mixing technology interface in fodjan Pro and feed as usual
- Record fed quantities using the “Feed Now” function in the app. To do this, you can, for example, activate your feeder as a co-user for the fodjan App. More about this here.
Continue to use data in fodjan at once:
If you use “Feed Now” or the feed mixing technology interface, your real data from the feeding comes automatically or via re-import directly into your documentation (see next step).
Via the documentation in fodjan it is possible to document data in the following categories:
Documentation is possible in Pro and App. The data are either automatically read from the “Feed Now” data or the feed mixing technology interface, or they are taken from manual documentation.
A part of reports is then automatically generated from the documentation.
The reports in fodjan come from the documentation or the imports, more about this here. In principle, you can have a look at reports in the app (Premium or incl. with fodjan Pro) as well as in fodjan Pro.
Via the reports you can see how good your feeding currently is or where there is still potential for improvement, e.g.:
- Irregularities in feed intake (detectable in feed controlling)
- Economic efficiency of feeding (detectable in feed controlling)
- Fed and planned ration do not match (can be seen in the report of Feeding accuracy and consumption)
- Milk yield decrease after ration change (can be seen in the Milk Report)
- and much more
On this basis, you can then make conclusions for your feeding strategy and make adjustments if necessary. This closes the circle to planning.
To learn more about the practical use of fodjan, read the experiences of our customers here.
See also
First steps in fodjan: Our recommendations
Read more >
Invite users and manage user rights
Read more >
Advised farmer
Read more >
Adviser cockpit in fodjan Pro
Read more >
Create, edit, switch and delete farms
Read more >
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