How Much Is Your Transition Programme Costing You?
The Benefits Of Using TMS
| Monthly farm visit | Independent transition cow assessment. Identifies issues. Monthly report to farm and nutritionist. |
| Financial model | Shows actual cost of metabolic issues & transition. Identifies hidden costs to help management decisions. |
| Fertility risk protector | Accurately predicts each cow’s chance of getting in calf by 100 and 150 days. Target treatment to individual cows, reducing medicine usage. |
| Cow comfort model | Assessment of cow comfort & where to make improvements. Tracking to see impact of changes made on farm. |
Transition Management System, Engineered By Premier Nutrition
The transition period is widely known to be them most stressful in a cow’s lactation cycle and successful transition can be the difference between a profitable, sustainable and a failing, unsustainable one.
Premier Nutrition’s Transition Management System (TMS) has been developed to help you analyse your farm’s transition cows, providing detailed data on dry and fresh cows, enabling you to make informed decisions and management changes to deal with issues around this vital period.
If you want to increase the profitability of your business through the reduction of transition costs, you should be using TMS – speak to us today for more information.
Did You Know?
These are the average costs per case for transition problems that could be occurring on your farm:
| LDA | £388 |
| Milk fever | £355 |
| RFM | £456 |
| Apparent Ketosis | £200 |
| True Ketosis | £572 |
| Acidosis | £30 |
| Mastitis | £343 |
| Fatality | £2592 |
| Planned cull | £1520 |
| Digital dermatitis | £301 |
| Sole ulcer | £498 |
What Happens If I Sign Up?
Firstly, it’s free to join – we just need to know your farm details and your nutritionist adviser.
Our TMS assessor will visit your farm every month and record the data shown in the table below.
The data is entered and each parameter is assigned a score, based on percentage maximum, which in turn gives the farm a total score. The data is split down into fresh cow, dry cow and milk data scores allowing you to really drill down into which part of the process is affecting you the most.
You will receive your monthly TMS score/report via email, with a copy to your nutritionist, to enable you to review results and plan any nutrition and management changes as required. The financial model, fertility risk protector and cow comfort model built into TMS is really helping farmers make a difference to their transition programme.
Monthly TMS Reviews
Fresh cows
Body condition score
Rumen fill
Hock hygiene
Lameness
Metabolic issues
Dry cows
Body condition score
Rumen fill
Lameness
Farm Data
Number of cows leaving the herd before 100 days
Milk records for individual cows to predict potential metabolic issues
