Autonomous Ranch Operations Solution
In the modern livestock breeding industry, large-scale pastures, cattle ranches and professional livestock farms are facing prominent pain points such as high labor costs, uneven manual feeding, serious feed waste, low trough management efficiency and low feed transportation efficiency. Our series of autonomous ranch operation equipment is tailored for the global cattle breeding industry (including beef cattle and dairy cattle breeding pastures/ranches), and has been successfully applied in large-scale ranches in Europe, North America and Australia. It targets the core operational pain points of ranches and provides a full-link intelligent solution for feeding, trough management and feed transportation, realizing the unmanned and intelligent upgrade of daily breeding operations, and bringing tangible efficiency improvement and cost reduction for ranch operators.
Ranch Solutions
smart unmanned feeding vehicle
Core Industry Pain Points Solved
In large-scale cattle ranches, manual feeding is prone to uneven feed distribution (resulting in uneven livestock growth), random feeding time (affecting livestock digestion and breeding efficiency), and serious feed scattering and waste (increasing breeding costs). At the same time, the large area of ranch feeding areas leads to high labor intensity and high employment costs for feeding workers.
Practical Application Effect & Advantages
This smart unmanned feeding vehicle is the core equipment for the daily precise feeding of ranches, and has been widely used in large dairy cattle and beef cattle ranches with a breeding scale of more than 500 heads. It integrates automatic loading, precise feeding, intelligent path planning and other core functions, and can independently complete the whole feeding process from feed bunker to cattle pen trough according to the preset program. The automatic obstacle avoidance function can flexibly bypass livestock, breeding equipment and other obstacles in the pen, ensuring safe and smooth operation; the scheduled operation mode realizes fixed-time and quantitative feeding, which conforms to the biological clock of livestock and effectively improves the digestion and absorption capacity of cattle.
In actual application in Australian large-scale beef cattle ranches, the equipment has reduced feed waste by 97.5% compared with manual feeding, completely eliminating the problem of feed scattering caused by human factors. At the same time, it replaces 3-5 feeding workers, greatly reducing the labor cost of ranches, and the uniform feeding and fixed-time feeding have effectively improved the uniformity of cattle growth, laying a solid foundation for improving the overall breeding efficiency of ranches.
Functions: Automatic Loading + Precise Feeding + Path Planning + Automatic Obstacle Avoidance + Multi-Vehicle Collaboration + Automatic Charging
Application Scenario: Precise feed feeding, reducing feed waste by 97.5%
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Parameter |
Specification |
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Product Size |
3500mm 1600mm2600mm |
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Maximum Speed |
5km/h |
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Endurance Mileage |
25km |
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Load Capacity |
3000kg |
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Tire Size |
Diameter 550mm, Width 160mm |
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Drive Controller |
Supporting controller with CAN communication protocol |
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Remote Control System |
Dual-drive dual-rotation control system |
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Battery |
72V200AH lithium battery (including charger) |
robotic feed pusher
Core Industry Pain Points Solved
After manual feeding, feed is easy to accumulate at one end of the trough or stick to the trough wall, and cattle are reluctant to eat the feed at the edge of the trough, resulting in secondary waste; regular manual pushing of feed requires additional labor input, and the pushing frequency is difficult to guarantee, leading to low cattle feeding rate and slow weight gain. In addition, the narrow space of the trough makes manual operation inconvenient and inefficient.
Practical Application Effect & Advantages
Designed for the trough management of cattle ranches, this robotic feed pusher is suitable for the daily trough finishing of small and medium-sized pens in large ranches, and has been applied in European dairy cattle ranches with intensive breeding. It has the characteristics of 0m minimum turning radius (in-situ U-turn) and flexible body, which can move freely in the narrow trough area, and realize timed and automatic uniform pushing of feed according to the ranch setting, pushing the feed at the edge and bottom of the trough to the middle of the trough where cattle can easily eat it.
The automatic obstacle avoidance function can avoid the cattle eating in the trough in real time, without manual on-site supervision; the multi-vehicle collaboration mode can realize simultaneous trough management of multiple pens, greatly improving the operation efficiency of the ranch. In the actual application of a German dairy cattle ranch, the equipment has increased the cattle feeding rate by 20% compared with manual trough pushing, effectively reducing the secondary waste of feed in the trough, and the continuous and stable feed supply has also improved the milk yield of dairy cows to a certain extent, while saving the labor cost of special trough management workers.
Functions: Timed Automatic Uniform Pushing + In-Situ U-Turn + Automatic Obstacle Avoidance + Multi-Vehicle Collaboration + Automatic Charging
Application Scenario: Trough management and feed distribution, increasing cattle feeding rate by 20%
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Parameter |
Specification |
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Product Size |
2300mmx1750mmx1400mm |
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Maximum Speed |
15km/h |
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Load Capacity |
100kg |
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Minimum Turning Radius |
Om (In-situ U-turn) |
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Drive Controller |
Supporting controller with CAN communication protocol |
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Remote Control System |
Left-right dual-drive control system |
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Battery |
48V150AH lithium battery (including charger) |
30m³ robotic feed pusher
Core Industry Pain Points Solved
Large-scale ranches have the characteristics of large breeding area, long distance between feed bunker and breeding pen, and large daily feed demand. Traditional manual transportation with small tools has low efficiency, high labor intensity, and is difficult to meet the large-volume and continuous feed transportation demand of ranches; the use of ordinary mechanical transportation is easy to have the problems of inaccurate feed delivery and difficult capacity control, and the man-machine coordination is poor.
Practical Application Effect & Advantages
As a large-capacity intelligent feed transportation equipment, the 30m³ robotic feed pusher is specially designed for the large-volume feed collection and transportation of super-large ranches (breeding scale of more than 1000 heads), and has been successfully applied in North American large beef cattle ranches. It integrates automatic loading, automatic feeding, real-time capacity monitoring and other functions, with a grain bin capacity of 12m³ and a load capacity of 3000kg, which can realize large-volume and continuous feed transportation, and the wire-controlled material receiving system ensures accurate feed loading and unloading, without material leakage and scattering during transportation.
The equipment has a maximum speed of 30km/h, which is far higher than the traditional transportation mode, and the man-machine collaboration and multi-vehicle collaboration mode can realize the linkage operation of multiple equipment according to the feed demand of each pen, realizing the intelligent scheduling of feed transportation. In the actual application of a large beef cattle ranch in the United States, the equipment has increased the feed transportation efficiency of the ranch by 300% compared with the traditional mode, replacing more than 10 transportation workers, realizing the continuous and uninterrupted feed transportation of the ranch, and effectively solving the problem of feed supply delay caused by low transportation efficiency in large ranches.
Key Technical Parameters
Functions: Automatic Loading + Automatic Feeding + Capacity Monitoring + Continuous Operation + Multi-Vehicle Collaboration + Man-Machine Collaboration
Application Scenario: Feed collection and transportation, increasing transportation efficiency by 300%
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Parameter |
Specification |
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Product Size |
6000mmx2200mmx2500mm |
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Maximum Speed |
30km/h |
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Load Capacity |
3000kg |
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Grain Bin Capacity |
12m3 |
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Drive Controller |
Supporting controller with CAN communicationprotocol |
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Operating System |
Wire-controlled material receiving system |
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Battery |
10OKWH lithium battery (including charger) |
Overall Value of Autonomous Ranch Operations Solution for the Cattle Breeding Industry
Cost Reduction
Realize the large-scale replacement of manual labor in feeding, trough management and feed transportation links, reduce the labor cost and management cost of ranches by more than 60%, and minimize feed waste through precise operation, further reducing breeding costs.
Efficiency Improvement
The unmanned and intelligent operation mode realizes the fixed-time, quantitative and uniform operation of each breeding link, improves the feeding rate, transportation efficiency and breeding efficiency of cattle in an all-round way, and helps ranches achieve scale and intensive operation.
Livestock Health Improvement
Fixed-time feeding and uniform feed distribution conform to the physiological habits of cattle, improve the digestion and absorption capacity of livestock, reduce the incidence of digestive diseases, and at the same time ensure the uniform growth of cattle, improving the overall quality of livestock.
Intelligent Management
The equipment supports remote control and scheduled operation, and farmers can manage the whole breeding operation process without on-site supervision, realizing the digital and intelligent upgrade of ranch management, and improving the refined management level of ranches.