Cow COMM Benefits

• Increase profit through individual animal management
• Work at your level of automation
• Collect data and sort cattle easily and accurately
• Instant access to all animal history provides accuracy in processing cattle
• Enhance speed and reliability through automated data collection
• Apply strategic animal management instantly
• Replaces the need for scale download software

Unique Cow COMM Features

• Record animal weights manually or automatically
• Record or look up animals by visual ID tag or use Electronic ID (EID) reader
• Collect and use data in fields you create
• Record individual treatment and health data
• Calculate maximum calf birth weights based upon pelvic area of replacement heifer candidates
• Sort in up to 5 ways (or groups)
• Multiple sort criteria let you decide the parameters
• Audible data collection cues prevent errors
• Direct download capability allows seamless data transfer from scale to Cow Sense
• Compatible with many electronic scales and EID readers
• Optional lighted sign displays sort calls
• Optional electronic tape for frame measurements

Who should use Cow COMM?

• Cow Calf producers
• Stockers
• Backgrounders
• Feeders
• Veterinarians

Use Cow COMM to…

• Record weaning, yearling or other performance data
• Record or access synchronized breeding and AI information chute-side
• Administer herd health treatments based upon predetermined criteria
• Record results of pregnancy examination chute side
• Record bull test information, including ultrasound measures
• Record and monitor individual animal performance measures for steer trials or progeny tests
• Sort, group and cull replacement heifers by frame, pelvic area, reproductive tract score, or other criteria
• Cull cows at pregnancy check by multiple criteria including udder score, structural soundness, MPPA, condition score, mouth and more
• Objectively sort feeder cattle into groups that will reach market uniformly
  Sort stocker cattle and monitor individual performance

Cow COMM's Auto Sort Function

Cow COMM uses data collected to also help you sort cattle into any type of groups chute-side. This allows you to make sounder management decisions based upon objective measures - uniformly applied. Cow COMM provides you the flexibility of two types of sorts.

Custom Sort. This feature uses data to help you define and instantly sort cattle into any type of groups… chute-side. This allows you to make more sound management decisions based upon objective measures - uniformly applied. The same type of flexibility with which you have grown accustom to with Cow Sense, you find in Cow COMM. Each custom sort category has "specs," or specifications, that you define, whether for cows, bulls, or calves. Custom sorts may consist of single criteria or multiple (up to 5) different criteria.

Micro Beef Technologies' ECM™ Sort. Midwest MicroSystems has licensed the patented technology utilized by MBT in the feedlot sector for application in the cow-calf, stocker or backgrounder phases. This patented ECM sorting method sorts feeder cattle into uniform groups that have similar projected finish dates. Prefeedlot sorting to these criteria has demonstrated an additional return of at least 10 dollars per head over non-sorted (by Cow COMM) contemporaries.

That's true value added!!

Included with Cow COMM are 200 auto sort licenses. Additional sort licenses are available. Contact Midwest MicroSystems for pricing.