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All our work helps facilitate farmers and food and drink businesses to work together effectively. Over the years we've expanded and developed subsidiary businesses - getting the right people together and making innovative advancements - to help benefit food, farming and rural Scotland.
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Developed and operated by ScotEID, MyHerdStats provides cattle keepers with consistent and accurate insight into their herd performance allowing informed decision making.
As with ScotEID itself, MyHerdStats works on behalf of the industry, and is supported by Scottish Government.
The online tool securely presents users with herd management information already held (and accessed through their existing ScotEID login) automatically generating insights and trends into each herd’s performance.
Cattle keepers have easy access to a range of herd data insights, into both performance and any year-on-year herd variability, highlighting areas of opportunity for further improvement.
Regardless of the system of production, there are a few common features that make both commercial and environmental sense. These are:
Improved fertility
Improved growth rates
Reducing unproductive stock numbers
Lowering morbidity and mortalities through better health and welfare.
MyHerdStats offers insight to these performance indicators, at the same time helping to quantify positive change over time. Informed and data-led management decisions will improve technical performance and could play a role in continued support payments.
Find out more at: MyHerdStats Info
AMU Project & MyHerdStats
alanah.gordon@scoteid.com