THE SOLUTION · THE BEHAVIOURAL FIX
Get her to eat.Everything else follows.
Great-tasting rations, pushed up regularly, can only motivate a fresh cow so much. What she needs is a gentle nudge to get up for one more meal between milkings — exactly when her biology is telling her not to. That is the whole idea, and the whole device.
The Old Energy Gap.A New Behavioural Solution.
One behaviour, restored at the root.
It works upstream — on the one thing that drives the whole cascade: getting her to the feed barrier between milkings. Restore that, and the rest of the loop turns on its own.
↻ Then the device lifecycle repeats: fit → prompt → eat → recover → remove → recharge → redeploy — onto the next fresh cow, three weeks later.
Ten minutes a day.A full lactation protected.
An overnight charge, and the next fresh cow gets the nudge she needs between milkings.
What it is — and what it isn’t.
Built on working farms, by the man who saw it first.
The science was invented and validated by the late Dr. David Barcik over 10+ years on 6 US commercial dairy farms — cows of every genetic merit, parity and season. He proved you could move that intake. We’re taking it to the UK.
The same curve Cost showed draining —now running the other way.
Commercial trial results (6 US farms, 10+ yrs) — not peer-reviewed. 10%+ is the conservative floor. Milk valued at AHDB ~£0.36/L (assumption).
And the milk is only the beginning.
Independent EU research — the Bavarian State Research Centre study of Dry Matter Intake and yield (von Soosten / Weiß, 2020) — shows there is real headroom to lift milk by influencing intake. But milk is just the first return. Prevent the cascade and you also protect health, fertility, herd life and emissions intensity.
The milk uplift is measured. The rest of the cascade — the culls that don’t happen, the days-open you don’t lose — follows from the same restored intake. ▸ Turn the page for the measured proof.
DMI→yield anchor T2-EU-0096 (von Soosten / Weiß 2020, Bavarian LfL). Full citations available to vets and researchers on request.
Go Deeper
See exactly how it works.
The page shows the principle. This shows the device in motion — the full lifecycle loop, real cow behaviour at the feed barrier, and the emissions prize we’re setting out to measure.
Proven on US farms. Now ready to be proven on yours.