Do you want to upgrade your farm technology but don’t know where to start? Come and see us this year at agricultural shows and events in United Kingdom and South Africa.

We believe that nothing beats a face-to-face chat. We are a friendly bunch and want to understand your farm set-up, the type of livestock that runs on your farm and what your business goals are. We want to make sure that you have the right technology for your farm - whether it’s ours or from other suppliers - and that it works well for you. Come and see us at an event where our expert team can help you find the best solution for your needs.

We look forward to meeting you!

United Kingdom

NSA Welsh Sheep

📅 16 May 2023
🕘 8:00am - 6:00pm
📍 Red House, Aberhafesp, Newtown, Powys

NSA Welsh Sheep is a stand out event for the Welsh sheep industry. It showcases the best of Welsh sheep farming, with trade stands, seminars, competitions, demonstrations, and more. We welcome you on our stand to meet our team, get a live demonstration of our iLivestock software and hardware and the face-to-face support you are looking for.

NSA North Sheep

📅 7 June 2023
🕘 8:00am - 6:00pm
📍 Bradford House Farm, Ponteland, Northumberland, NE20 0HA

NSA North Sheep is an event where sheep producers throughout the UK get a chance to network and stay connected with the industry. It features trade stands, seminars, workshops, demonstrations, competitions, and more. Be sure to visit our stand and get the latest technology demonstration.

Royal Highland Show

📅 22-25 June 2023
🕘 8:00am - 6:00pm
📍 Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh

Join us this year at the Royal Highland Show, one of the greatest agricultural shows in the United Kingdom. An event for the family, as well as for farmers and rural enthusiasts. It features livestock exhibits, trade stands, food and drink stalls, entertainment, and more. Don't miss this opportunity to chat with our friendly staff.

South Africa

Bloemskou

📅 27 April - 6 May 2023
🕘 8:00am - 5:00pm
📍 Bloemfontein Showgrounds, Bloemfontein, Free State

The Bloem Show is an annual event in Bloemfontein and is hosted every year between March and May on the show grounds in Bloemfontein. It is one of the largest agricultural shows in South Africa and attracts thousands of visitors from all over the country. You can find us at the Livetrack SA stand, where we will be happy to demonstrate the on-farm technology and answer any questions you may have.

Nampo

📅 16-19 May 2023
🕘 7:00am – 5:00pm
📍 Nampo Show Grounds, Bothaville, Free State

Grain SA’s NAMPO Harvest Day is one of the largest agricultural exhibitions under private ownership in the southern hemisphere. It features more than 700 exhibitors and attracts more than 80 000 visitors every year. You can find us at the Livetrack SA stand, where we will be showcasing the iLivestock software and hardware technology and how it can help you manage your livestock more efficiently.

Livestock management:

All your sheep and cattle records in one app, where and when you need it

iLivestock uses the latest smartphone and tablet technology to make it easy to manage your flock or herd on the go. You can weigh, scan, and manage your animals with a few taps on your device. iLivestock helps you comply with relevant local legislation, capture breeding information, apply medication, create smart groups, and generate reports. Plus, you can connect iLivestock to a range of EID readers and weigh indicators to speed up your process.

Get in touch

Don't want to wait to get the right advice for your farm business? Get in touch with our team:
📧 [email protected]
☎️ 01383 324 358

Improve your flock performance with our brand new sheep breeding performance dashboard.

You are already recording individual records with the app. With this new feature you can now quickly see the performance of your flock in one overview, showing results of the three most important stages in breeding:

1. Tupping
2. Scanning
3. Lambing

Reporting features

Watch the feature highlights in this video:

Visit iLivestock.co.uk/dashboard and get started!

Flock performance indicators

This feature has been designed in close collaboration with our farmers. With their help we have defined twenty key performance indicators in the three main breeding stages, to support on-farm management decisions in all areas of your business, applying AHDB sheep farming standards. The sheep breeding reports show the following results:

Tupping results

• First male in date
• Sires used
• Ewe : ram ratio
• Ewes to tup
• Expected start date lambing
• Average dag score
• Average foot score

Scanning results

• Scanning %
• Barren ewes
• Expected lambs (total)
• Expected lambs (per ewe)
• Expected type of lambs (single, twin or triplet)

Lambing results

• Start date lambing
• Male / female count
• Average litter size
• Birthing assistance required
• Lambing %
• Number of lambs born
• Type of lambs borns
• Abortion %

This new feature provides insights into your flock’s performance and it is the first step for iLivestock users to monitor animal performance and analyse breeding records year-on-year in more detail.

Get started

Login to your iLivestock online account and see what your sheep breeding performance dashboard looks like. The sheep breeding performance reports are a new feature. If you have feedback to further improve the reports, don’t hesitate to let us know.

If you have enquiries, give us a shout and we will walk you through it:
🌐 iLivestock.co.uk/dashboard
📧 [email protected]
☎️ 01383 324 358

Looking for a new weigh head, an EID stick reader or load bars? The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2023 (FETF) applications close this week. Make sure you apply for new hardware in time.

Grant scheme bundles

Farm equipment grants can get pretty complicated. It is not always obvious what you need. That's why we have grant scheme bundles in different shapes and sizes. To either get you started on the farm or bring your set-up to the next level. Check out our grant scheme bundles: iLivestock.co.uk/bundles 🌐

Our bundles apply to the Small Grants Efficiency Scheme in Wales and the following FETF numbers in England:

• 🚜 FETF78 | Individual electronic weigh system (weigh head)
• 🚜 FETF79 | Weigh bars and weigh platforms for weighing livestock (load bars)
• 🚜 FETF80 | Weigh bars or platform for animals less than 300kg (load bars)
• 🚜 FETF81 | EID handheld recorder device (EID stick reader)
• 🚜 FETF82 | EID handheld device (EID stick reader)

Reserve equipment

Applied and waiting for a grant already? Reserve your equipment with us today!

Get in touch

Not sure what it is that you want? Give us a call to talk it over with our team:
📧 [email protected]
☎️ 01383 324 358

In 2016, sheep and cattle farmer George Sturla started Beeches Farm. A solo part-time farming venture in North Wales that started with seven sheep. Now he runs the farm together with his partner Hollie Blockley. An enterprise consisting of 140 breeding ewes, 13 suckler cows and 25 store cattle. Since 2022, Beeches Farm delivers lamb - and soon also beef - boxes to local households.

George and Hollie invested in an iLivestock system to closely monitor their livestock, keep animal records up-to-date and save time on the farm to manage their full-time jobs. They use eWeigh, a Bluetooth enabled animal weighing device system, to monitor the daily weight gains of their lambs until they're ready for end-consumers.

Farm highlights

📍Beeches Farm, Gwespyr, Holywell, CH8
🚜Sheep and cattle farm
🎁Meat box delivery
🐑Pedigree flock: Beltex and Blue Texel sheep
🐄Mixed herd: Angus cross and British Longhorn

iLivestock technology used on farm

• Breeding recording
• Weight recording
• Medication
• EID reading
• Smart grouping
• Compliance

Shropshire-based sheep and arable farmer Hayden Woolley and Farmgene vet Ian McDougall are conducting trials to identify the most productive, low-input sheep for the UK. Ultimately, producing and selling performance-recorded stud stock.

Seven years ago, Hayden began phasing out his Romney ewes after bringing in EasyCare in a bid to reduce costs, as the wool produced didn’t cover the labour costs of crutching and shearing. The results were encouraging, but Hayden and Ian believe there are greater benefits to be had from enlarging the breed’s gene pool to prevent inbreeding and improve key productivity traits.

Zeroing in on the most productive wool-shedding breed

Meeting when Hayden’s flock were chosen to supply embryos to a New Zealand breeder, his hands-on expertise and 4,000 ewe out-door lambing flock, combined with Ian’s wide experience of flock genetics, deliver a wealth of know-how. Combine this with iLivestock’s easy and accurate data capture capabilities to monitor and measure progress, and the pair aim to zero in on the most productive wool-shedding breed for UK farmers.

“Scale plays an important part…”

In genetic trials Ian knows, “Scale plays an important part. The more sheep you can choose from – assuming you select wisely – the more that should result in some exceptional animals being bred.”

Hayden comments, “My main motivation for this project is helping others. I started sheep farming with 60 sheep, and I made every mistake known to man.”

Also with an eye on the future, Hayden continues, “When subsidies go, sheep farmers will need an answer.”

Improving lamb quality, growth, carcass quality and weight

The goal is to find the two best composites: a wool-shedding terminal sire and a wool-shedding maternal sire, improving lamb quality, growth, carcass quality and weight. The breeding to find an improved genetic mix has been:

• 1,280 ewes had embryos implanted or were artificially inseminated. Two highly productive south Australian rams came from two different wool-shedding breeds raised with rainfall and grass viability similar to that of the UK.
• 1,130 ewes were artificially inseminated then split into six groups for repeats to be mated with high-index UK EasyCare and New Zealand Wiltshire chaser rams. Around 70% of ewes held to artificial insemination.
• 600 ewes were single-sire mated to Exlana rams. Plus, 150 embryos (pure Australian White and Australian White cross Nudie) were implanted.

The ability to quickly and accurately record data on each lamb in the field is key to the operation and iLivestock cloud-based platform helps ensure that all critical data is easily captured and accessible via iPad. To create breeding values, all captured data is being sent to Signet and NZ Sheep Improvement Ltd. “I want to farm them as commercially as possible and let the good sheep rise to the top,” says Hayden, and, to help find the right combination of highly productive traits, a holistic view will be taken of the results.Ian adding, “There is no point in having an EasyCare maternal flock that is too lean and has oversized lambs. The beauty is that we are not restricted by breed or a brand, so we can let the winners win.

”By 2026, Hayden and Ian hope to have a composite breed that will be a reliable wool-shedding year-round breeder, capable of lambing in the autumn and able to thrive on regenerative arable systems and cover crops. For the future, Ian is also looking at low carbon footprint breeds in New Zealand, where research into low-methane emission traits in sheep is well advanced. Plus, Australian breeds that are proving more resistant to worms. Adding, “Breeding is a journey, and you never get to the end, but if you are making progress along the way, that is what matters.”

As featured in Farmers Weekly | 'Breeders step up hunt for wool shedding genetics' | February 2023 | Photo credits: Farmers Weekly

Cornish farmer Steve Penberthy is one of the early adopters of iLivestock. With a fulltime job, next to his sheep farming business, welcomed faster and simpler methods to help him run his sheep farm. Ultimately, to spend more time on his other passion: surfing. That’s where iLivestock came in 🌊🏄📱🐑

On Trewithick Farm, he runs a commercial flock of 150 Suffolks, Dorsets, and Lleyns ewes; and a pedigree flock of Suffolk, Charollais and Texel ewes. Steve uses most - if not all - features in the iLivestock platform as a simple method to manage his pedigree flock of Suffolk sheep and keeping note of the pedigree line.

Key app features that Steve uses:

• Breeding
• Medication
• Weight recording
• Smart grouping
• Compliance
• Reporting

The integration with eWeigh in his Rappa yard means that he can record commercial weights of the lambs throughout their growing time up until they go to market.

Get in touch

Do you want to discuss with our Support Team what other features are worth recording to manage your flock or herd on the go? Please get in touch.

As of today, iLivestock now also integrates with Gallagher W0 and Tru-Test S3, on android as well as iOS. This means we now offer a full range of EID reader equipment integrations. To our knowledge, we are the first to integrate with Gallagher W0. But there is more: we’ve enhanced the workflow for customers using a Tru-Test EziWeigh 7i, improved the Bluetooth connection and fixed a few login bugs.

We hope you'll enjoy the product improvements and that it will speed up your animal recording 🐑📱🐏🐄📓

Get in touch

Do you want to discuss with our Support Team what this means for you and your set-up? Please get in touch via the support chat in the app.

First-generation farmer Andrew Powers embraced technology to manage and run his farm of 350 New Zealand Romneys and contract flock of 700 Highlander ewes in Ledbury, Herefordshire.

Key app features that Andrew uses:

• Medicine records
• Moving records
• Breeding records
• Dag score collections
• Blow fly strike

In this video he shares his experience working with iLivestock 🐑📱🐏

Get in touch

Do you want to discuss with our Support Team what other features are worth recording to manage your flock or herd on the go? Please get in touch.

Join us at the Welsh Winter Fair 2022, our last show this year.

📅 When: 28-29 November 2022, 8AM - late
📍 Where: Royal Welsh Showground, LD2 3SY
👀 Find us on stand 142 in South Glenmorgan Hall

🤔 Why attend?

• Meet our team in person
• Get face-to-face support
• Superb livestock
• Livestock auctions

🚜 Looking for more reasons?

• Over 1,000 competitions
• Cookery, produce, handicraft and floral art
• Christmas gifts and late night shopping
• Santa's Grotto and Reindeer
• Musical entertainment
• Fireworks

🍔 Not to mention:

• Catering facilities second to none
• Savoury delights and tempting treats

Get that festive feeling with a visit to the Winter Fair.
Click here for visitor info & to buy your ticket.

We look forward to seeing you! 🐂🐑🚜🎄