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How it works

Pasture productivity was always the intention of virtual fencing; with Halter you can unlock this next level of pasture harvest for your herd.

The collar

Collars are on a subscription, and maintained and updated by us. New updates are delivered to your collars over the air.

The app

The app gives you the power to optimise pasture, monitor heat and health, and schedule your herd’s movements.

What does getting started look like?

Our dedicated Customer Success team are here to help you prep, plan, and get the most out of your Halter system.

We get started with details of your farm and keep you informed every step of the way.

  1. We drone map your farm

4. Your personalised prep & plan session

2. Your tower plan & install

5. Receive your Halter collars

3. Get set up in the app

6. Collar and train your herd

Support when it matters most

  • "Your customer service is second to none, I had a call from customer support at 4am asking if everything was okay. I didn't even know the power was out"

    Daniel, Makowhai, Manawatu

  • "The support team are unreal, their response times and fix times to issues we raise are unreal, please make sure the feedback gets passed on to the team."

    Simon, Tasmania

  • "I could have never taken on a second farm without Halter."

    Matt, North Otago

Photo-capture residual assessment

Understand if you’ve met your target post-grazing residuals.

Assess and record your post-grazing residuals with a simple photo from your mobile phone. The photo is run through a model trained with 10,000 images of residuals across a range of dairy farms.

Understand your post-grazing residuals per paddock, track your utilisation & growth, and have the insights to make adaptations.

Automated pasture cover estimates

A live picture of your pasture supply and growth across the farm and in each individual paddock.

Using imagery of your farm, your grazing data, and our advanced biophysical growth models built on hundreds of thousands of data points, you’ll have a daily view of your pasture cover.

*Accuracy will improve as the system learns your farm

Know your leaf emergence rate

Adapt your round lengths to meet your target grazing intervals to maximise grazing at the third leaf.

Using temperature and moisture data specific to your farm each day, and equations developed over years of research with Pasture scientists, Halter provides daily estimates of your leaf emergence rate.

Total diet management

Set feed allocation targets and record supplements.

Have visibility of each mob’s daily diet. Stable allocation that meets your animal’s requirements helps you maintain strong production through the season.

Record the different types of supplement to easily track your herd’s diet over time.

Advanced heat detection & health monitoring

Using 27 different behavioural trends from rumination to walking speed, and comparing against herd and individual cow benchmarks, Halter alerts to specific heat and health events

Use your optimal AI window

Know when your optimal AI window is to have the highest chance of conception.

Understand herd cycling

Visibility of pre-mating cycles and the number of cycles since calving. You can also identify non-cyclers early and intervene with treatment.

Mark cows as mated

You can track your submission rate through the season, and light up the LEDs on your cow collars to draft them when they come in to the shed.

Grow your farm, season on season

A birds-eye-view of your farm & herd

Solar-powered and GPS enabled

Our collar enables you to have a real-time view of your herd, and shift your cows from break to break. Our solar-powered collar means you don’t have to rely on battery swaps.

Advanced heat detection

With individual cow-health visibility, you can run multiple mobs, and get alerted to your cow’s on-heat period with consistent monitoring of their health. Tailor your mobs to body condition, cow needs, and for optimal herd management.

Care for every animal

With Halter’s health model, you can monitor grazing habits and herd behaviours, and benchmark this against the rest of the herd. Proactively know when a cow’s health declines with individualised health alerts.

Pasture insights

Optimise your farm performance. With your historical and current data in the app, you can see your performance and make decisions and informed trade-offs.

Daily allocation tracking

Action your insights and give visibility to your entire farm on the daily allocation targets. Set targets and track how you do against them.

Live farm map

This map shows the location of your animals and grazings, any shifts in progress or scheduled shifts, and of course, your pasture.

Schedule multiple shifts per mob

See your shifts on the live map, and see what’s scheduled in the future or happening now. You can also schedule shifts for multiple breaks in the same paddock.

Shift paddock to paddock

When you drop a break or schedule a shift, you have the option to select another paddock. Shift cows back to a paddock from a feed pad mapped with Halter. You’ll still need to manage your gates.

Paddock overview

Tap a paddock from the map to see and manage your active and planned breaks, review historic grazing events, manage animals in that paddock, and assess your pasture metrics and covers.

Talk to our team to learn more