2. Welcome
Who is Digi-Star?
30 years of electronic agriculture scale design
Fort Atkinson, WI USA & The Netherlands
Provide weighing and data sharing solutions to OEM’s
TMR Tracker: Progressive Feed Management Software
24 Hour Help Desk, Unlimited Remote Service
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3. Welcome
What is a Feed Management Software Program?
TMR Tracker benefits
PC Software & TMR mixer scale overview
Reports & Internet On-line features
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4. Scale & Software Solution
EZ3600V software compatible digital scale indicator
-works with any scale system, trailer or stationary
TMR Tracker Feed Management PC Software permits
inputting ingredients, creating recipes and pens/ groups
at the pc, in your office
PC created feed instructions are uploaded into the mixer
scale via USB memory stick
Weight, date, time, pen, recipe, operator, ingredients, … is
recorded into memory and later retrieved from scale with
USB stick for review
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5. Benefits of Feed Management Software
• Monitor feed usage - single largest variable expense
• Make better decisions with actual feeding data. Accurate DMI’s
• Healthy cows. Reduce nutrition related concerns. Cows perform best with
consistent feeding
• Interest feed operators to help resolve feeding and animal health concerns
• Make easy changes to ingredient moisture %
• Evaluate operators loading/feeding struggles
• Monitor feed inventory and usage projections
• Simplifies batching for feed operator
• Data is readily exchanged with existing management products
• Review TMR Tracker remotely with OnLine access. Compare your results with
other similar size farms
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6. Why TMR Tracker?
• Easy to Use Software and Scale Indicator
• One Company Delivers Hardware & Software
• 24 Hour Helpdesk, Online Updates & Support
• Software Levels and Hardware options to customize for any operation
• 15+ Languages
• Automatic Online Database Backup
• Links to Herd Management Software – DC305, Dairy Plan, PC Dart, Afi Farm
and others
• Affordably Priced
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10. Entering Data
• Ingredients • Pens
• Ingredient list • Pen Number
• Short name • Head Counts
• Feeding Amounts
• Dry Matter %
• Price per Lbs/Ton
• Ration & Premix
• Lbs/Kgs per head or % of
Ingredient
• Loading Order
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13. Ingredient and Recipe building
features
• Loading Order
• What is the best loading order?
• Difficulties on small ingredients, Weigh movement
•Mixer timer/ Revolution counter
• Advancing Ingredients/Pens
• Setup % Tolerance and Delay on Scale Indicator
• Setup Actual Weight Tolerance on the PC
• Auto vs. Manual Advance
• Duration Time before advance, expl:
Auto advance on Ingredients – Manual advance on Pens
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20. EZ3600V
Advanced Batching
Indicator
Program with PC or at
Indicator
USB Drive Data Transfer
Datalink (wireless) Data
Transfer
Change Pen Call Wt and
Head Count
Reuse Feeding, day after
day
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29. Who benefits from TMR Tracker?
•Incentives to the operator
What % error is acceptable?
Paycheck Bonus for acceptable error %
•Reporting
Reports for the Producer
Reports for the Nutritionist/Consultant
Reports for the Bank
•TMR Tracker Online
Access reports and data online
Automatically email reports to anyone
•Cows
Consistent recipe, consistent feeding time
Healthy cows make more milk, make you more money!
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30. TMR Tracker Online
(Online Remote Access)
Producers can view their data from any PC
Nutritionist can easily view all their clients
Auto email reports to any email address
Edit data online and update PC at farm
View on smart phones – Android, i phone
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31. Why TMR Tracker?
Easy to use PC Feed Management Software
One Company provides both the scale and software
Multiple Languages
Remote On-line Access
Compatible with Dairy Herd Management Programs
ValMetal Help Desk - Certified to Support TMR Tracker
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