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Calving Season Puts Pressure on Your Vat

Calving season is when everything on the farm gets stretched; staff, time, and equipment. Your milk vat is no exception. As herds build back up to full production and milking routines shift week to week, vats are working harder than at almost any other point in the season. It's also, unsurprisingly, when quality events are most likely to happen.Here's why calving season puts extra load on your vat, and what to keep an eye on....

From the West Coast to your phone: how Agora is connecting 350+ Westland farms

The West Coast of New Zealand's South Island is not the easiest place to roll out new technology. The farms are remote. The coverage is patchy. The weather doesn't care about your install schedule - The farmers want something that can last a Westland winter.Agora is in the process of completing a large-scale installation across more than 350 Westland Milk Products supplier farms on the West Coast - connecting each one to real-time vat monitoring in a rollout that is one of the most significant f...

The Hidden Cost of Milk Quality Events

Every milk quality failure has a visible cost; the rejected load, and an invisible one: the lost trust, the compliance paperwork, the next season's supply contract....

Number One from Teat to Tank: How Terravest is reshaping NZ Dairy

A New Zealand agritech group is making bold moves to become the country’s leading force in on-farm milk quality, and it’s doing so by bringing together three specialist businesses under one roof....

Farm Telemetry Made Simple: Smarter Monitoring for Milk, Water and Chiller Performance

Running a dairy farm is full noise. You don’t have time to guess whether the vat is cooling properly or hope the agitator is doing its job - Telemetry solves that.Agora gives you real-time visibility across your vat, cooling, water and (soon) electricity output. All in one place.No clutter. No digging. Just a clean, easy-to-read dashboard that shows you exactly what’s happening on your farm.Below is a breakdown of the Agora solution and what we measure today, what’s coming next and how our...

OFI and Agora Partnership

For decades, agriculture was at the forefront of new technology. From early mechanisation to breakthroughs in genetics, ag-tech once defined what innovation looked like. But in recent years, the pace of progress in farming technology has slowed while other industries raced ahead.At Agora, we believe it is time to change that. Our mission is to revolutionise how the farming sector uses technology: smarter, simpler, and with a sharper focus on delivering real value to farmers, processors, and even...