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Ceres Trace Pasture Feed Intake

Ceres Trace Pasture Feed Intake

Regular price $1,399.00 USD $279.80/tag (excludes duties and taxes)
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Ceres Trace is a smart ear tag with direct to satellite capability, allowing you to monitor your animals anytime, anywhere with no towers or infrastructure required. With up to 4 data packets per day, receive insights and alerts including unusual behaviour, mortality and geofence boundary alerts, and GPS activity monitoring insights. 

Ceres Trace includes a daily Pasture Feed Intake summary packet that includes information on walking to the nearest minute, grazing to the nearest 30 seconds, Ruminating and resting to the nearest minute and drinking and other to the nearest minute. The Pasture Feed Intake packet also gives a calculation on pasture intake in kilograms an methane output in grams. 

 With Pasture Feed Intake customers can see metrics on both an individual animal level and at a herd level. They can view this data as reflection of the last 24hrs and also a reflection of the previous week. When using the data to impact your business performance Pasture Feed Intake data can help identify trends of animal behaviour over time. Learn more about Pasture feed intake here. 

Ceres Trace and Ceres Wild have been designed for "one tag, one life" application and are not able to be removed nor reapplied to another animal to ensure traceability and reduce biosecurity and theft risks.

Shop Ceres Trace, available in boxes of 5, 10 and 24 tags. 

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Dispatch timeframe: Up to 14 business days

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Dimensions

Dimensions of each tag:

36mm x 62mm x 37mm (W x L x D)

Weight: 35 grams

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ABOUT CERES TAG

Ceres Trace is the world’s first animal monitoring information platform with direct to satellite capability through a proprietary smart ear tag. Ceres Trace uses data collection, on-tag and off - tag analytics to provide animal-specific geospatial location data in addition to animal behaviour monitoring. Integrating with your choice of software partner platforms, the Ceres Tag platform offers opportunities to improve productivity across the livestock industry and provide a richer range of information to guide effective decision making.

Ceres Trace tags must be applied with the Smart Applicator to activate the tag.

CHOOSE YOUR SOFTWARE

Ceres Trace integrates with several software solutions to, allowing you to choose the best for your needs. See below the software available for this product.

If you are not familiar with software and would like some guidance on where to start get in contact with our team at info@cerestag.com.

Which tag is right for you?

Ceres Ranch Tag Ceres Trace Tag Ceres Trace Tag

CERES RANCH

From $1,399 USD

CERES TRACE

From $1,399 USD

CERES WILD

From $3,299 USD


Pasture Feed intake


Pasture Feed Intake


Advanced Activity


Reusable tag


Single-use tag


Single-use tag


On-farm data


Transferable data


Transferable data


Up to 4 data packets per day


Up to 4 data packets per day


Up to 24 data packets per day


3 years of direct-to-satellite connectivity


3 years of direct-to-satellite connectivity


3 years of direct-to-satellite connectivity


Solar powered battery


Solar powered battery


Solar powered battery


-20°C to +60° C Operating temperature


-20°C to +60° C Operating temperature


-20°C to +60° C Operating temperature


High Activity Alerts


High Activity Alerts


High Activity Alerts


Mortality Alerts


Mortality Alerts


Mortality Alerts


Ambient Temperature


Ambient Temperature


Ambient Temperature


GPS Coordinates


GPS Coordinates


GPS Coordinates


Activity Monitoring


Activity Monitoring


Activity Monitoring

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Features Ceres Ranch Ceres Trace Ceres Wild
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Pasture Feed Intake Pasture Feed Intake Advanced Activity
Reusable Single-use Single-use
Data transfer
Data packets per day Up to 4 Up to 4 Up to 24
Satellite Connectivity 3 years 3 years 3 years
Battery Life Solar Powered Solar Powered Solar Powered
Operating Temp -20°C to +60° C -20°C to +60° C -40°C to +60° C
High Activity Alerts
Mortality Alerts
Ambient Temperature
GPS Coordinates
Activity Metric
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How do I access PFI Data?

All Ceres Trace & Ranch Tags sold after the 19th of April 2023 will have PFI as a standard Capability. You will be able to access this data through your fully integrated software partner.

Do I have to tag every animal?

You don't need to tag every animalto get the insights you need! You can tag strategically and benchmark the herd or mobto receive location, behaviour, and welfare insights for all animals. We typically suggest tagging 10% of your animals and scaling this up as you need from there.

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Can I remove a Ceres Trace tag?

Ceres Trace and Ceres Wild have been designed for "one tag, one life" application and are not able to be removed nor reapplied to another animal to ensure traceability and reduce biosecurity and theft risks.

Ceres Ranch includes all the features and benefits of a Ceres Trace Tag in a reusable casing. This is the only reusable product from Ceres Tag.

Can I use a different applicator?

Ceres Tag has been designed to only be applied with the Ceres Tag Smart Applicator. Failure to use a Ceres Tag Smart Applicator, will result in the tag not functioning as expected and will void the warranty.

What happens after 3 years?

Ceres Trace products are unable to be extended beyond 3 years satellite connectivity. To continue gaining insights repurchase a Ceres Trace Pack. 

How do I view the data?

Ceres Tag does not provide end user software but rather integrates with other software platforms. You can view software options on our software partner page here. After purchase of the tags you are required to link your chosen software to our system. Once linked the data automatically flows through to the software partner.

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Book in a complimentary 15 minute call with our team of experts to discuss how Ceres Tag can help you.

SPEAK TO AN EXPERT
  • Macka's Angus

    "Integrating with our Aglive app, the Ceres Tag platform offers opportunities to improve productivity and provide a richer range of information to guide descision-making. This innovative technology is essential in; monitoring biosecurity, health, welfare, performance, traceability & theft detection."

    - Robert M.

  • Giraffe with Ceres Tag

    Giraffe Conservation Foundation

    "We have been impressed so far and do hope that the initial results will continue as it has the potential to have significant value for our ongoing wildlife conservation efforts. As we support monitoring all four giraffe species across their range in Africa, including individuals translocated to new areas or other regions of political unrest, being able to track giraffe greatly aids the conservation management we can undertake."

    -Julian F., PhD

    Director

  • 406 Ranch Owners

    406 Cattle Ranch

    "I am able to track the movement of my herd on a daily basis by simply logging into my Mapipedia account on my smart phone.  I can do this from anywhere I please and love to share this experience with my friends who ask to see the latest movement patterns of my herd.  I especially like the feature that allows me to place the boundaries of the ranch onto the Mapipedia website. "

    - Joe S.

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