Weather Stations for Feedlots

Environdata has been supplying weather stations to Lot Feeders for over 30 years.  We make the weather monitoring simple, straightforward, reliable and stress free.  We do our job, so you can focus on yours.

Environdata’s Feedlot Weather Stations are tougher, more accurate, more reliable, and better at surviving Feedlot conditions than any other weather station on the market.

Feedlots are significantly affected by the weather. Environdata offers a feedlot weather station package including weather monitoring, data retrieval, onsite servicing and integrating your data into your 3^rd party analysis tools.  This is specifically designed for Feedlots, to help you to boost profits and minimise your time and effort.

Specialised Firmware will be built in to your weather station specifically for monitoring heat load. These calculations include:

• • HLI: Heat Load Index

  • AHLU: Accumulated Heat Load Units. 5 different AHLU can be set up to manage your different cattle breeds across your feedlot.

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Heat Load Index (HLI) and Accumulated Heat Load Units (AHLU) – are extremely important measures of animal comfort. As the cattle start to experience even mild heat stress their feed uptake drops, weight gain slows, fertility rates drop, and in dairy cows the milk production also drops. As the heat stress worsens the cattle can die.

Monitoring the heat stress conditions on site with your own weather station, gives you the ability to implement management plans to avoid the worst effects of heat stress. Even one heat event managed correctly can pay for the cost of the weather station.

In times when heat stress isn’t an issue you can use the information to link animal comfort to feed consumption & live-weight gain

Environdata’s feedlot weather stations are exceptional at monitoring your feedlot for heat stress. However your feedlot can benefit greatly by monitoring more of the weather than just heat stress.

Rainfall

Rainfall is required as part of your NFAS feedlot accreditation.  Add a tipping bucket rain gauge to your weather station to automate your rainfall data collection.  Automate alerts and tasks based on rainfall to better manage feedlot operations, pen clean outs and more.

Dust or Odour Drift

Monitor your dust or odour drift, with the addition of a wind direction sensor and air movement firmware to respond to dust or odour drift issues raised by neighbours, or to defend yourself from complaints to the EPA.

With built in Wind Rose reporting and alerts based on your wind direction, your weather station becomes a frontline tool in managing odour complaints.

Upgrade to our 10 metre mast to mount the wind sensors to meet Australian Standards if you have a Development Application or EPA License issue.  A DA will often need years of historic wind data meeting the Australian Standards - add the 10m Mast now and save years of waiting in the future. 

Distributed Sensors

You can also add remote sensors to your Weather Maestro Feedlot Weather Station.  LoRa connection up to 7km line of sight.  This could be rainfall or soil moisture on your adjacent cropping operations for example.  Whatever you can dream of doing we will work with you to find a solution.

Automate and manage your weather data collection, storage and distribution with our WeatherMation LIVE service.  Access your data from anywhere via any device with an internet connection.  WeatherMation Live brings your feedlot’s weather data to you live and secure into the palm of your hand. 

Receive SMS or Email alerts based on your on-site weather – including HLI or AHLU values.  Automatically upload your weather station's hourly records to your chosen 3^rd party weather forecasting service, such as KiteFeedlot by Katestone or to mistEO.

• 30+ years’ experience in supply, operation & maintenance of weather stations to the lot feeding industry.
• Weather station selection & siting advice by the people with experience to get it right.
• A full weather station installation & maintenance service, ensuring siting is appropriate and meets NFAS & Australian standards when required.
• Australian Made Weather Stations for Australian Conditions
• On-site servicing throughout Australia
• Australian based customer support &
• Our commitment to look after you, our customer.