DataConnect is a multi-year project that explores ways the industry can work, precompetitively and collaboratively, to tackle the challenges farmers experience when exchanging and integrating data. This is the next step towards the vision of enabling farmers to make data-driven decisions with a pipeline that allows single data entry; multiple uses.

DataGene has been working with a variety of milking equipment manufacturers, on-farm software providers and a corporate dairy company to identify the best mechanisms to connect their data to the CDR and to provide customised solutions as needed. Proof-of-concept connections were showcased at the AGM in November 2023 and DataGene has continued to add connections through the year.
DataConnect has demonstrated the potential to feed large volumes of historical and daily data, including new types of data, into the CDR. A significant amount of work has been completed to automate the connections and work through the variety of challenges encountered when merging various data sets.

In parallel, DataGene continues to progress its work with the International Dairy Data Exchange Network (iDDEN) that is building better pipelines with overseas equipment manufacturers.