Topcon Agriculture has integrated its TAP FEED API with Connecterra. The company has signed an agreement with Connecterra to provide dairy farmers and agricultural professionals with enhanced data integration and analysis capabilities.

Data exchange between Topcon’s TAP FEED management system and Connecterra’s platform will provide dairy farmers with more comprehensive insights to improve decision-making.

“The integration offers significant advantages for dairy professionals,” said Mike Garbe, sales manager for feeding technology at Topcon Agriculture. “Farmers can now combine feeding data from TAP FEED with other data sources through Connecterra’s platform, supporting more strategic operational choices and reducing manual data entry. The technology provides real-time insights that can help improve overall operational efficiency.”

“With TAP, ration changes are automatically added to the Farm Timeline, enabling the Impact Tracker to deliver real-time analysis on key performance indicators (KPIs) such as DMI, daily milk weights, total solids, ruminating time, and ECM, said Julie Larson of Connecterra. “This level of automation and intelligence empowers users to make data-driven decisions with confidence, optimising herd health and productivity like never before.”

Garbe said, “Topcon recently joined the International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR) in its work to create a new standard for group feeding data, which had been a missing link in the industry. ICAR is a global provider of a universal language for easy data exchange between different software companies in the livestock market, and the new standard specific to group feeding represents an incredible opportunity. While TAP FEED can provide profitability improvements for livestock farmers, third-party companies can now also easily leverage TAP FEED data to improve their services towards the farmer as well.”