Avery Weigh-Tronix is pleased to announce its new partnership with Nestle as the preferred partner in weighing technology for their prestigious Dairy Farming Institute (DFI) in Shuangcheng, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China. The partnership with Nestle will see Avery Weigh-Tronix offer their expertise and advise on accurate weighing equipment for the three progressive farms of varying size located at the DFI in addition to supplying the weighing equipment.

The Institute has been created to act as a national centre of excellence to support the rapidly expanding Chinese dairy farming sector which is predicted to overtake the US as the largest dairy market by 2017. Nestle’s DFI will run training courses specifically for dairy farm staff, managers and associates which will focus on new technologies in modern dairy farm production. The centre will also be running a variety of conferences and events which have been designed to support the dairy industry.

Avery Weigh-Tronix is one of the largest and most established suppliers of weighing equipment worldwide. The company boasts a specialist Agricultural division that provides weighing solutions for hundreds of thousands of farms around the world. “With a long established manufacturing, technical support and R&D facility based in Suzhou, China, Avery Weigh-Tronix is delighted to be offering their expertise to such a respected brand in the global dairy industry” John O’Connell, General Manager, Suzhou.

The weighing support from Avery Weigh-Tronix at the DFI will focus primarily on TMR diets, in which accurate weighing plays a crucial role. “It is essential to ensure the feed mixer is being loaded with the correct weight of each ingredient that has been established by the nutritionist for optimum milk production.” The management of ingredients and diets is increasingly being handled by sophisticated software to ensure the highest of accuracies. Avery Weigh-Tronix uses Feed Watch software, supplied by Alta-Agricorps, to make the task of managing and monitoring feed considerably easier and more accurate.

Avery Weigh-Tronix has a wide range of weighing solutions for livestock and vehicle weighing for farms of any size or type and are happy to advise how best to install weighing for a variety of farming applications.