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Award-winning solutions for on-farm tracking and monitoring

The AgTech Breakthrough Awards is an annual event held by AgTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organisation. The awards programme claims to conduct the industry's most "comprehensive analysis and evaluation of agricultural and food technology categories, including Internet-of-Things (IoT)- and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based agricultural technologies, farm management, indoor farming, food quality, data analytics and many more".

There are 19 categories, including farm management solutions, automation and robotics, in-door farming solutions and livestock innovation, among others. This week, we take a look at the winners in the farm-management solutions category.

HALTER

Halter, based in Auckland, New Zealand, received the Herd Management Solution of the Year 2022 award for their smart collar system for dairy cows.

According to the company, the platform was designed to combat labour shortages, increase pasture harvested, redistribute nutrient loading, and improve health and reproductive performance. The Halter system automates

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