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WelcomeWho is Digi-Star?30 years of electronic agriculture scale designFort Atkinson, WI USA & The NetherlandsProvide weighing and data sharing solutions to OEM’s TMR Tracker: Progressive Feed Management Software 24 Hour Help Desk, Unlimited Remote Service

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WelcomeWhat is a Feed Management Software Program?TMR Tracker benefits PC Software & TMR mixer scale overviewReports & Internet On-line features

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Scale & Software SolutionEZ3600V software compatible digital scale indicator

-works with any scale system, trailer or stationaryTMR Tracker Feed Management PC Software permits

inputting ingredients, creating recipes and pens/ groups at the pc, in your office

PC created feed instructions are uploaded into the mixer scale via USB memory stick

Weight, date, time, pen, recipe, operator, ingredients, … is recorded into memory and later retrieved from scale with USB stick for review

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Benefits of Feed Management Software

• Monitor feed usage - single largest variable expense• Make better decisions with actual feeding data. Accurate DMI’s • Healthy cows. Reduce nutrition related concerns. Cows perform best with

consistent feeding• Interest feed operators to help resolve feeding and animal health concerns• Make easy changes to ingredient moisture %• Evaluate operators loading/feeding struggles • Monitor feed inventory and usage projections• Simplifies batching for feed operator • Data is readily exchanged with existing management products• Review TMR Tracker remotely with OnLine access. Compare your results

with other similar size farms

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Why TMR Tracker?• Easy to Use Software and Scale Indicator• One Company Delivers Hardware & Software• 24 Hour Helpdesk, Online Updates & Support• Software Levels and Hardware options to customize for any operation• 15+ Languages• Automatic Online Database Backup • Links to Herd Management Software – DC305, Dairy Plan, PC Dart, Afi Farm

and others• Affordably Priced

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Home Screen

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1. Ingredients2. Rations3. Pen Feeding Data4. Inventory Report5. Edit Pens6. Send Data – Pen Feeding Order7. Receive Data8. Weigh back – Refusal Feed9. Mixer Data10. Users – Mixer Operators11. DMI Report12. E-Tracker – Send Data13. Help

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Dashboard

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Entering Data• Ingredients• Ingredient list• Short name• Dry Matter %• Price per Lbs/Ton

• Ration & Premix• Lbs/Kgs per head or % of

Ingredient• Loading Order

• Pens• Pen Number• Head Counts• Feeding Amounts

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Ingredient Library

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Ingredient Add/Edit

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Ingredient and Recipe building features• Loading Order

• What is the best loading order?• Difficulties on small ingredients, Weigh movement• Mixer timer/ Revolution counter

• Advancing Ingredients/Pens• Setup % Tolerance and Delay on Scale Indicator• Setup Actual Weight Tolerance on the PC • Auto vs. Manual Advance• Duration Time before advance, expl:

Auto advance on Ingredients – Manual advance on Pens

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Recipe Add/Edit

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Pen Add/Edit

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Edit Pen

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Send Data – Feeding Order

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Mixer Add/Edit

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Ingredient Delivery (Inventory)

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EZ3600VAdvanced Batching

IndicatorProgram with PC or at

IndicatorUSB Drive Data TransferDatalink (wireless) Data

TransferChange Pen Call Wt and

Head Count Reuse Feeding, day after

day

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Inventory Receipt Record

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Reports

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Reports Daily/Weekly/Monthly• Daily Reports

Load Report DMI Report Recipe Delivery Report Pen Delivery Report

• Weekly Reports DMI Trend Report Group Delivery Time Operator Accuracy

• Monthly Ingredient Usage Ingredient Usage by Pen Projected Inventory Requirements

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Load Report Record

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Load Detail Report

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DMI Report

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Ingredient Usage

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Who benefits from TMR Tracker? • Incentives to the operator

What % error is acceptable? Paycheck Bonus for acceptable error %

• Reporting Reports for the Producer Reports for the Nutritionist/Consultant Reports for the Bank

• TMR Tracker Online Access reports and data online Automatically email reports to anyone

• Cows

Consistent recipe, consistent feeding time

Healthy cows make more milk, make you more money!

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Producers can view their data from any PC Nutritionist can easily view all their clients Auto email reports to any email address Edit data online and update PC at farm View on smart phones – Android, i phone

TMR Tracker Online(Online Remote Access)

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Why TMR Tracker?Easy to use PC Feed Management SoftwareOne Company provides both the scale and softwareMultiple LanguagesRemote On-line AccessCompatible with Dairy Herd Management ProgramsValMetal Help Desk - Certified to Support TMR Tracker

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Questions?

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Thank You!