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的自动牛奶取样装置（AMSD）和Clarity的横向流动（LF）读取器的技术和商业可行性，并测试牛奶中的黄体酮，从而解决了ISCF改变食品生产的总体目标。提供一种易于使用且具有成本效益的黄体酮测试，与农民通常的热检测方法一起工作，旨在为他/她提供有关最佳授精时间的更精确信息，从而增加成功授精的可能性并减少犊牛之间的天数；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，解决了提高反刍动物生产系统生产率的特定竞争目标。

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.