Ceres Trace Pasture Feed Intake
Ceres Trace Pasture Feed Intake
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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.
Shipping & Returns
Shipping & Returns
Dispatch timeframe: Up to 14 business days
Dimensions
Dimensions
Dimensions of each tag:
36mm x 62mm x 37mm (W x L x D)
Weight: 35 grams














How many tags do i need?
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?
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CERES RANCHFrom $1,399 USD |
CERES TRACEFrom $1,399 USD |
CERES WILDFrom $3,299 USD |
Pasture Feed intake |
Pasture Feed Intake |
Advanced Activity |
Reusable tag |
Single-use tag |
Single-use tag |
On-farm data |
Transferable data |
Transferable data |
Up to 4 data packets per day |
Up to 4 data packets per day |
Up to 24 data packets per day |
3 years of direct-to-satellite connectivity |
3 years of direct-to-satellite connectivity |
3 years of direct-to-satellite connectivity |
Solar powered battery life |
Solar powered battery life |
Solar powered battery life |
-20°C to +60° C Operating temperature |
-20°C to +60° C Operating temperature |
-20°C to +60° C Operating temperature |
High Activity Alerts |
High Activity Alerts |
High Activity Alerts |
Mortality Alerts |
Mortality Alerts |
Mortality Alerts |
Ambient Temperate |
Ambient Temperate |
Ambient Temperate |
GPS Coordinates |
GPS Coordinates |
GPS Coordinates |
Activity Monitoring |
Activity Monitoring |
Activity Monitoring |
SHOP CERES RANCH | SHOP CERES TRACE | SHOP CERES WILD |
Features | Ceres Ranch | Ceres Trace | Ceres Wild |
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Price ($USD) | From $1,399 USD | From $1,399 USD | From $3,299 USD |
Pasture Feed Intake | Pasture Feed Intake | Advanced Activity | |
Re-usable | 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 | 10 years | 10 years | 8 years |
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.
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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