The introduction of mandatory electronic identification (EID) for cattle in Argentina, led by SENASA, is reshaping how livestock operations approach compliance, data, and day to day decision-making. What was previously a gradual move toward traceability has now become a clear regulatory requirement, accelerating the need for practical, on farm digital solutions.

For producers, the immediate priority is straightforward: ensure compliance with national identification standards. But the implications go further. EID creates a consistent, reliable data foundation at the individual animal level, something that has historically been difficult to achieve at scale in extensive livestock systems. As a result, regulation is not only driving adoption, but also redefining what is possible on farm.

iLivestock has entered the Argentine market at a time when this shift is gaining momentum. Its integrated approach, combining RFID hardware, connected weighing systems, and cloud-based software, enables farmers to capture and manage animal data in a single platform. This supports compliance with EID requirements while also enabling more accurate tracking of performance, health, and movement.

The opportunity in Argentina is significant. As one of the world’s leading beef producers, the country plays a central role in global supply chains. At the same time, the sector is under increasing pressure to improve transparency, meet evolving market expectations, and operate more efficiently. According to the World Bank Group, Argentina’s agricultural landscape includes hundreds of thousands of producers, highlighting both the scale and the complexity of the transition now underway.

Delivering technology into this environment requires more than just product capability. It depends on strong local execution. Through its exclusive partnership with VILLANUEVA, iLivestock is working with an established distributor that understands the nuances of the Argentine market. This collaboration brings together global technology and local expertise, helping ensure that digital tools are introduced in a way that is relevant, accessible, and aligned with producer needs.

Argentina also reflects a broader strategic direction. Across international markets, regulatory changes, particularly around EID and traceability, are creating a clear demand for systems that can operate reliably across different geographies. iLivestock’s platform has been designed with this in mind, with hardware aligned to global standards and software that can be adapted to local regulatory frameworks with minimal localisation. This allows the same core system to support farmers in multiple regions while remaining compliant with national requirements.

What is happening in Argentina highlights a wider industry trend. As governments and supply chains place greater emphasis on traceability and accountability, the role of digital infrastructure on farm is becoming more central. EID is a starting point, but the real value lies in how that data is used, supporting better decisions, improving productivity, and strengthening the link between on farm practices and market expectations.

In this context, Argentina represents more than a single market launch. It is an example of how regulatory change can accelerate adoption, how partnerships can enable effective market entry, and how integrated technology can support both compliance and performance. As similar policies emerge in other regions, the pace of digital transformation in livestock farming is likely to continue increasing.

The shift is already underway.

More information

Whether you are exploring how to meet EID requirements or looking to introduce iLivestock in your region, our team would be pleased to discuss how we can support you.

Cotswolds-based sheep farmer and consultant Abby Cook doesn’t have time for paperwork, and she doesn’t think farming should rely on it either.

Running her flock like a business, Abby focuses on measurable performance. That means recording data as she goes—whether she’s treating a ewe, condition scoring, or managing tasks out in the field.

“I was literally skipping around like, ‘Oh, this makes my life so easy!’ If you don’t have a lot of time, it’s a lot easier to record as you go. I can catch a ewe, treat her, log it on my phone, and it’s done before I even let her go.”

By switching to real-time digital records, Abby has cut admin time, improved accuracy, and gained a clearer view of which sheep are actually delivering results.

“It becomes as essential as your sheepdogs, your truck, or your quad.”

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Want to learn how Abby is using data to improve flock performance and save time on farm? Read Abby’s full story to see how she transformed her flock management.

Upgrading livestock equipment can be a big investment—but with current grant schemes across the UK, many farmers are choosing to bring in new tools with financial support already available.

iLivestock has developed a selection of practical equipment packages designed to line up with these schemes, helping farmers introduce weighing, EID reading, and digital record-keeping into their day-to-day setup.

From handling cattle and sheep more efficiently to improving the accuracy of records, these systems are built to slot into everyday farm routines without overcomplicating things.

Designed around current UK schemes

The available packages are aligned with the main funding opportunities currently open to farmers:

• Wales: Small Grants – Efficiency
• England: Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF)
• Scotland: Future Farm Investment Scheme (FFIS)

By matching equipment to scheme requirements, the process of choosing eligible items is more straightforward—saving time when organising purchases and claims.

Explore your options

With a mix of hardware and software available, farmers can choose systems that suit their setup while meeting grant criteria. Take a closer look at the full range, or speak to the team to find the right fit for your farm.

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iLivestock has secured a £750,000 funding boost to accelerate its global growth, marking a significant milestone in the company’s expansion journey.

The investment, delivered by the British Business Bank’s Investment Fund for Scotland and managed by The FSE Group, is supporting the business at a key stage in its commercial expansion. Together, these partners are helping to accelerate innovation and unlock new opportunities for ambitious Scottish businesses.

iLivestock’s integrated approach—bringing together software, hardware and farmer-focused support—enables producers to capture and manage real-time livestock data, improving efficiency, animal health and on-farm decision-making. As global demand for digital farming solutions continues to rise, the business is well positioned to scale internationally.
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The latest funding builds on a period of rapid progress, with the company expanding into new markets and strengthening its presence across multiple territories. Continued support will enable further growth, helping more farmers benefit from data-driven, sustainable livestock management.
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This milestone highlights the increasing role of collaboration between innovative agri-tech companies and funding partners in driving forward the future of farming.
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For more detail, read the official announcement on the FSE Group website.

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Weighing is more than just recording a number. It drives decisions around growth, health and sale readiness. That’s why we’ve introduced new features to the iLivestock weighing section, making it easier to manage records, track performance and capture key information while animals are in the crate.

We’ve kept all existing weigh screen functionality, but added new tools to help you do more while weighing animals:

• Tap straight into the animal profile while weighing
• Add animals to specific groups as you weigh
• A new metrics view showing all your weighing data in one place
• Medicate individual animals during weighing
• View and add breeding information throughout your weighing session

iLivestock combines easy-to-use software with reading and weighing equipment

Weighing sessions stats

We’ve also added a new Quick Info area on the weigh screen. You can choose to view:

• Your selected animals summary
• A weighing graph to spot dips or trends the moment you weigh
• Session summary showing key information from your current weighing session

Performance tracking made easier with weighing charts and quick info buttons

Why change the weigh screen?

Measuring an animal’s weight plays an important role in monitoring livestock growth, identifying potential health issues and meeting market specifications. Weighing is one of the most important jobs on the farm, yet it's also one of the busiest moments in your day. We redesigned the weigh screen to reduce time spent switching between different areas of the app, allowing multiple tasks to be completed while you weigh. Making iLivestock faster, easier to use, and even more efficient on farm.

During weighing sessions, while animals are in the crate or crush, users can now update records, review performance trends, record treatments and manage breeding information within the same workflow. Helping keep information accurate and up to date while saving time on farm.

More information

Whether you’d like to learn more about the updated weighing functionality or need a hand with iLivestock, we’d love to help. Give us a call at +44 1383 324 358, or email us at [email protected].

Farming near Bridgnorth, shepherd Hayden Woolley has increased the efficiency and greatly reduced the labour hours and maintenance of his 4,000 ewes through better monitoring and data-led decision-making. The sheep graze over some 1,700 acres of parkland in the summer months across six different locations. During the winter, the flock is split across grazing on 15 arable farms.

Performance recording

Growing his sheep farming business over the past 25 years, Hayden’s biggest breakthroughs came after adopting the iLivestock platform to better understand what was working, and how he could improve.

Adopting the phone-based software back in 2020, Hayden started by using the data captured to monitor and measure the productivity of different breeds within his large flock. Already using an EID reader and weigh crate, iLivestock easily connected to both through the eWeigh weigh head, collating all the different elements of data into one place on his iPad and phone.

Hayden says, “Initially I was only collecting basic production data but was surprised how the information built up. Even though I was only recording the basics, such as scanning results, breed, age and weights.”

Recording the basics and building up the information

Exploring his growing database of stats, Hayden found that he could potentially create a more efficient farming system by swapping to a wool-shedding breed.

Gradually building up a highly comprehensive profile of individual animals, Hayden commented, “Each ewe is allocated a visual management tag corresponding to her EID, single sire mated, with lambs tagged as they’re born outdoors in April.

“We collect ewe weights at tupping and weaning, while tagged lambs with known parentage are weighed at eight weeks and weaning. This allows us to make comparisons under commercial farming conditions.”

“… time and management savings just too big to ignore.”

This detailed knowledge led Hayden to substantially reduce his labour costs, whist maintain productivity, as he explains, “My original EasyCare ewes averaged 62kg, which almost matched the output figures of my original New Zealand Romneys. When you consider the time and management savings of the EasyCares, this was just too big to ignore.”

Adding, “It’s been easy to gather the data as we complete routine tasks, and I’m getting a true picture of the risks and benefits these different breeds offer. I’m also starting to identify maternal and terminal traits needed for my flock, and shedding sheep in general.”

Hayden is also finding important differences in his imported New Zealand Wiltshire and Texel breeds, “The Wiltshire offers maternal characteristics and is very similar to the Romney, but without the wool and work requirements, whereas the Texel adds terminal traits shedding sheep lack.”

With iLivestock, “Licences only take moments to complete.”

Given the complex movement of so many sheep across Hayden’s summer and winter grazing, the iLivestock app also reduces the time spent on movement orders and admin, Hayden again, “All the information I need to complete movement licences is pre-populated in the movements section of the app, so licences only take moments to complete.”

Finally, adding, “My holdings, markets, vehicles, medicine stocks and customer locations are also saved in the app, making it easy to treat and move batches or individual animals.”

With less time spent on lost or inaccurate paperwork, there’s more time for the real job on the farm among his flock, and Hayden is keen to reap the rewards.

In 2020, Hayden adopted iLivestock Software to capture data and monitor breed productivity across his large flock

Original article featured in Shropshire Star Magazine | 'Managing data helping to streamline business' | November 2024

With a shared ownership of Sezincote Farms, near to Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, together with his own smaller flock of Texels, Cotswold’s shepherd Sam McPherson uses iLivestock to improve the efficiency of his 1,000 strong organic ewe flock.

The flock, mainly of pedigree Lleyns and a smaller amount of Lleyn cross Texels, ranges over some 2,000 acres. Alongside the main flock, some 150 ewe hoggs, lamb from a New Zealand composite meat sire, the Innovis Primera tup.

Efficient and effective: better data means better decisions

Sam came across the iLivestock data management software in 2020, giving him a year’s free use of the phone-based app, as part of an Alligator equipment package. Today, Sam also uses the eWeigh system through the iLivestock monthly paid subscription service, and feels it’s invaluable to his operation.

“Recording and managing data electronically is far easier than doing it with paperwork…”

Operating an outdoor lambing system throughout April, Sam closely monitors lamb weights during finishing. Sam says, “We finish all the lambs on grass leys – including a mix of red clover and chicory – and a roots mix of vetch, oats, fodder rape, radish, and turnips.

“The cross-bred lambs are generally all gone by October, and the pure lambs are finished in time for the next lambing.”

With an average deadweight of around 22kg, all Sam’s lambs are finished on the farm, and, more recently, integrating the Texel breed to the Sezincote’s flock has meant the lambs finish quicker.

Helping to pick up problems early on

Regular weighing is accompanied by a firm culling policy. “We run a hard culling process to try and make it all as easy as possible. Anything that goes lame or has any lambing problems will be culled. We can’t have any stragglers in the system.

“The software captures all the weights and plots daily live weight gain, so we can usually see if something is wrong early,” adds Sam.

“Based on this, I can then do faecal egg counts to see if there is a problem with worms affecting lamb weight gain.”

Using health data to cull smarter

Crucially, it’s this careful weighing, monitoring and recording of data for more accurate and better decision-making that is helping to drive up the productivity of Sam’s operation, with iLivestock’s app delivering plenty of practical functionality. Capturing data on mastitis, lameness and birthing difficulties with a flexible flag system to highlight issues, making culling decisions more focussed, easier and faster.

Around medication too, the phone-based app affords easy access to critical information, helping to avoid errors and save time, as Sam explains, “The app is also really useful when I’m drawing lambs. The eTagReader vibrates if you scan a lamb which has had medication and is currently in its withdrawal period – alerting you that it can’t go for slaughter yet.”

Supporting farm assured inspections

Particularly important to organic flocks is the ability to prove their organic status during farm assurance inspections. This too is made quicker and easier with iLivestock data capture and recall. Plus, as Sam points out,

“Recording and managing data electronically is far easier than doing it with paperwork, and it can’t be lost as everything is stored in the cloud.”

Sam is in no doubt about the benefits of iLivestock to improving his overall flock health, and plans to continue using the system to support breeding and lambing, concluding, “I’d also like to increase the number of Lleyn cross Texels, and reduce the number of pure Lleyns, because the cross-bred lambs finish much quicker.”

Improving genetics and breed choice for greater profits

Adding, “By improving the genetics to get them away quicker, I can look at buying organic store lambs and finishing them for additional income after my own lambs have gone.”

Sam McPherson optimises his 1,000-ewe organic flock with iLivestock, improving weighing, health tracking and culling decisions.

Original article featured in Anglia Farmer Magazine | 'How Data Boosts Organic Sheep Productivity' | March 2025

iLivestock has expanded its livestock solutions portfolio with the launch of the iLivestock eWeighCell, a new weighing solution designed to help sheep farmers modernise existing analogue weigh crates—without replacing their current setup.

The eWeighCell installs directly into an existing crate structure, supporting the weight of the crate and livestock and connecting straight to a compatible digital weigh head for accurate weight capture of up to 300 kg (660 lbs). At its core is a load cell – the weighing sensor that measures weight by detecting the load applied to the crate and animals – allowing farmers to access digital weights while retaining their current equipment.

Designed for sheep systems, the eWeighCell is built for tough farm environments and repeated use. With a compact footprint and minimal modification required, it is ideally suited to upgrading older weighing setups that are incompatible with load bars.

Key features include:

• Converts analogue weigh crates into digital weighing solutions
• Supports the full crate load and delivers precise, repeatable weight readings
• Direct connection to compatible digital weigh heads for seamless data transfer
• Minimal installation and retrofit-friendly design
• Rated for loads up to 300 kg / 660 lbs
• No batteries or complex electronics in the load cell itself

How it works

Once connected to a digital weigh head, weight data can be synced to the iLivestock app, enabling farmers to monitor livestock performance and make more informed management decisions.

The iLivestock eWeighCell is available now.

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iLivestock has returned from UAE Scotland Week having strengthened relationships and explored new partnership and investment opportunities across the United Arab Emirates.

The four-day programme, held in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, brought together more than 35 Scottish organisations from agritech, energy transition, food and drink, technology and innovation sectors. UAE Scotland Week was led by Kate Forbes, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Economy & Gaelic, and supported by Scottish Development International, Scottish Enterprise, the GlobalScot network and the British Embassy UAE.

Representing iLivestock was Jamie Pugh, Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and Co-Founder, who took part in agritech-focused meetings and roundtable discussions centred on food security, climate-resilient farming and the role of practical, data-driven livestock technology in future food systems.

A key highlight of the week was the Agritech Roundtable, chaired by the Deputy First Minister alongside The James Hutton Institute, which brought together Scottish and UAE government, industry and research leaders to explore collaboration on sustainable and climate-resilient food systems.

Engagements with UAE organisations, including agricultural producers and innovation centres, provided valuable insight into regional priorities and reinforced the growing demand for scalable, farmer-led technology that supports productivity, compliance and environmental sustainability.

Jamie Pugh said:

“UAE Scotland Week was a valuable opportunity to have direct, practical conversations with partners who share our focus on sustainable food production. The week reinforced the relevance of farmer-led, data-driven livestock technology in addressing global food security and resilience challenges.”

By taking part in UAE Scotland Week, iLivestock continues to build international relationships, explore new routes to market and position its technology to support livestock farmers in new global regions.

Video recap

Here’s a short video recap from the week:

UAE Scotland Week 2026 partners:

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iLivestock is taking part in UAE Scotland Week 2026, working in collaboration with the Scottish Government, Scottish Development International (SDI) and global partners to pursue new partnerships, investment opportunities and routes to market in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Running from 27 to 29 January 2026 in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAE Scotland Week connects Scottish businesses with UAE investors, government representatives and innovation leaders across priority sectors including agritech, energy transition, advanced manufacturing and technology.
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iLivestock’s participation reflects the growing global demand for innovative, sustainable solutions in livestock and food systems. The company is represented by Jamie Pugh, Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and Co-Founder, who is engaging with potential UAE partners and investors as part of a programme of roundtables, one-to-one meetings and sector-led showcases.

UAE Scotland Week is led by Kate Forbes, Scottish Government Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Economy & Gaelic, and supported by Scottish Enterprise, SDI and the GlobalScot network. The initiative builds on momentum from Investopia Global, hosted in Edinburgh in December, and aims to help Scottish companies scale internationally while attracting inward investment.
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The UAE remains a strategically important market for Scotland, offering a stable business environment and access to fast-growing global markets. In 2023, the UAE was Scotland’s 16th largest export destination, with exports valued at £635 million.
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UAE Scotland Week has been developed in partnership with Investopia and the UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism, reinforcing shared ambitions around innovation, sustainability and long-term economic collaboration.
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By joining the delegation, iLivestock is positioning itself at the forefront of Scotland’s global trade efforts. Thereby, seeking to form meaningful partnerships, explore investment opportunities and bring its practical, farmer-led livestock technology to new international markets.

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