Assessment of commercial and technical feasibility of installing an automated milk sampling and reproduction testing system in a traditional milking parlour

该项目旨在展示Davlec的自动牛奶采样设备（AMSD）和Clarity的侧向流（LF）读取器的技术和商业可行性，并测试牛奶中的孕酮，从而实现ISCF转变食品生产的总体目标。提供一种易于使用和具有成本效益的孕酮测试与农民常用的热量检测方法一起工作，旨在为他/她提供有关授精最佳时间的更精确信息，从而增加成功授精的可能性并减少小牛之间的天数;产犊间隔（CI）。降低CI还通过技术解决方案和系统增强决策支持，解决了推动反刍动物生产系统生产力的具体竞争目标。

This project addresses the overall ISCF aim of Transforming Food Production by aiming to demonstrate the technical and commercial feasibility of Davlec's Automated Milk Sampling Device (AMSD) and Clarity's Lateral Flow (LF)Reader and test for progesterone in cow's milk. Providing an easy to use and cost-effective progesterone tests to work alongside the farmer's usual heat detection method aims to give him/her more precise information on the optimal timing for insemination, thereby increasing the likelihood of successful inseminations and reducing the number of days between calves; the calving interval (CI). Reducing the CI also addresses the specific competition aim of driving productivity in ruminant production systems by enhanced decision support with a technology solution and system.