During their Innovation Awards ceremony last night at World Dairy Expo, Dairy Herd Management announced that ai24™Â's SCR-HR™ Tag was named a Top 10 innovative product of the year!

Â"Innovation drives the productivity in agriculture and every other business. It is innovation in technology, innovation in practice and the way we think about our work that have repeatedly increased the productivity in agriculture that feeds our world.  It is for this reason that we started our Innovation Awards this year,Â" says Tim Tobeck, vice president and publisher for Dairy Herd Management.

Entries were evaluated by an independent panel of dairy farmers, agribusiness representatives and university experts.
 
Â"Our team of experts evaluated and weighed each entry on its originality within the marketplace, usefulness and value to dairy farmers,Â" says Tom Quaife, associate publisher and editor for Dairy Herd Management. Â"We are very excited and honored to be able to recognize the top 10 innovative products of the year. We feel they represent the best of the best.Â"

ai24™Â's SCR HR-Tag™ is a revolutionary technology that combines rumination, heat detection and cow identification functionality in one unit, giving dairymen a tool to monitor their cows 24 hours a day. This technology will change the way dairymen manage and interact with their herd, providing value through reduced days open, early detection of health problems, increased pregnancy rates and much more.

ai24™Â's SCR HR-Tag™ rumination monitoring technology was recognized for providing the following advantages to dairymen:

• One-of-a-kind technology - no other commercially available solution like it in the market.
• Multifunctional tags - combines identification, activity monitoring and rumination monitoring in one single tag.
• Unparalleled accuracy - customers report up to 95% heat detection accuracy. The rumination monitoring accuracy has been scientifically confirmed in an independent study.
• Highly reliable - Infra red communication, no regulatory constraints.
• Easy to use - detailed graphic information only a few keystrokes away.
• Simple to install.
• Scalability - can be utilized as a standalone PC based system and later integrated into a Data Flow herd management system.
  

To find out more, join us at World Dairy Expo on Thursday, October 6 at 3:30 pm in the Exhibition HallÂ's Waubesa Room to learn from HR-Tag™ users and industry experts how this one-of-a-kind technology can make the difference on your dairy.

If you canÂ't be with us at World Dairy Expo, click here or please contact ai24™ Program Manger Chris Sheahan at 1-877-545-ai24 or at csheahan@semex.com