Welsh Small Grant Efficiency scheme

The Welsh Small Grant Efficiency Scheme is specifically aimed at supporting farmers to produce food in a sustainable way, whilst taking proactive action to respond to the climate emergency and to help reverse the decline in biodiversity.

It focuses on providing capital funding to help farmers in Wales to improve the technical, financial and environmental performance of their farm businesses.

The objectives are to:

  • increase on-farm investment
  • increase technical performance
  • increase on-farm production efficiencies
  • increase on-farm resource efficiencies
  • enhance the use of technology to improve management decisions.

For qualifying products and solutions, the scheme supports capital investments in equipment and technology that have been pre-identified as offering clear and quantifiable benefits to your farm business.

Datamars Livestock, and its associated local UK business KiwiKit Roxan, firmly believe in the value that technology can deliver on farm – in fact, we make it the core of our business to ensure our solutions work better, together.

As such we are 100% behind the Welsh Small Grant Efficiency scheme, making sure that our team are fully informed about the benefits it can offer you and your farm business.

To help identify which Datamars Livestock products are eligible, and what exact benefit is available to you we have produced the below product/solution overview, along with a referenced value available from the grant.

Automated system for the heat detection in cows - Grant value £42
The Tru-Test Active Collars deliver world-class precision in heat detection to optimise mating and insemination, and health monitoring to provide early warning on looming health issues. Timely and reliable data alerts in the dairy, or via any mobile device, giving you accurate heat and health detection for peace of mind from this Cloud based system.
Pasture Plate Meter Handheld - Grant value £231

EC20 KiwiKit supply the EC10 and EC20 Platemeters both accurate and robust for measuring pasture cover in grass paddocks. The unique folding handle design and removable plate also make them easily transportable.

EID hand held device - Grant value £446
The XRS2 can be used for individual reading and recording of animals, the ability to record individual weights, treatments, births, movements, capable of exporting data to a computer based software package or cloud based application for the active monitoring of livestock.
Electric Fencing Energiser - Grant value £134

The PEL range provide two excellent solar powered units. The S500 & S1000 Solar energizers push out 0.5J and 1.0J of output power. They are simple and intuitive plug and play with the solar panel and battery integrated in one convenient robust case. Fence leads can be stored internally when not in use next to the easily accessible and replaceable battery. A single flashing LED indicates fence pulse. Mount to existing steel or wooden posts.The XRS2 can be used for individual reading and recording of animals, the ability to record individual weights, treatments, births, movements, capable of exporting data to a computer based software package or cloud based application for the active monitoring of livestock.

Electric fencing equipment bundle - Grant value £162
The Pel range features a number of grant applicable products. So whether strip grazing forage crops, controlled rotational grazing, or just providing backup on an existing fence line, some fencing stakes, reels, insulators and wire or poly all are invaluable for stock management purposes. Just ask any of the team for advice.
Automatic Cattle Weighing Equipment - Grant value £2,515
Placed near a water source or using an attractant, livestock quickly adjust to weighing themselves daily by walking over, or on, the Walk Over Weighing (WOW) structure. Delivering accurate, real-time insights and data based on individual animal weights and group averages, the system is a combination of sophisticated, yet practical algorithms and robust hardware. Tru-Test Dairy WOW 4000 Tru-Test Flexi Mobile WOW 4000C Just ask any of the team for advice.
Heat Detection System - Base Unit - Grant value £950
880 0004-609 Tru-Test Edge gateway with LTE 880 0004-658 Tru-Test Edge gateway w/o LTE
Heat Detection System - Ear Tag - Grant value £42 / Tag
700 2100-746 Active Ear Tag/M2Z yellow, bag of 20, box 100
Heat Detection System - Neck Collar - Grant value £42 / Collar
986 0000-507 Tru-Test Active Collar tag, belt with weight and tag assembled, box of 25

 

Naturally there are eligibility criteria, along with aspects like maximum grant rate and maximum grant threshold, to consider when making your decision. But do not worry, contact one of our friendly, knowledgeable team members today and we can talk you through all the details – in plain English.

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Let us know what products you are interested in and one of our sales team will be in touch to discuss the details!