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Allflex Livestock Intelligence
SenseHub cow monitoring where the collar, the software and the reader come as one per-animal monthly fee
As of 1 September 2026, Allflex Livestock Intelligence starts at 3.83/month. MSD Animal Health's livestock monitoring line, sold as SenseHub. Softwr lists it under Agriculture. Allflex Livestock Intelligence is made by Allflex Livestock Intelligence, part of MSD Animal Health, available on Web, iOS, Android, Windows.
Overview
What Allflex Livestock Intelligence does
Allflex Livestock Intelligence is the monitoring arm of MSD Animal Health, selling SenseHub dairy, beef and feedlot systems alongside the visual and electronic identification tags Allflex has made for decades. Neck or ear-mounted sensors report rumination, activity, eating time and inactivity; the SenseHub software turns that into heat detection alerts, health deviation lists and group-level nutrition reporting, delivered to a barn PC and a phone. The commercially decisive detail is SenseHub GO, the subscription version, which folds equipment, installation, tags and application licence into a single monthly fee calculated from the number of tags or collars and the plan tier. Where the New Zealand operation publishes rates, a collar-based Starter plan for heat detection sits around 3.83 New Zealand dollars per cow per month and the Premium plan covering heat, health and rumination around 4.73, both excluding GST and both varying with herd size. On a 400-cow herd that is roughly 22,700 New Zealand dollars a year in perpetuity, and drafting gates, if you want automated sorting, are separate capital items published there at 38,200 to 53,500 dollars. Buyers are dairy and beef operations that want heat detection without a vet-led synchronisation programme, plus feedlots using the pen-level version. The trade-off is that the software has no life outside Allflex hardware and the hardware has no useful function without the subscription, so this is a decade-long commitment dressed as a monthly fee.
What people use it for
- A 400-cow dairy replacing tail paint and a synchronisation programme with automated heat detection
- A herd manager who wants fresh cow problems flagged on day two rather than found on day five
- A feedlot monitoring pen-level rumination to spot a ration problem before intakes drop
- A farm installing a drafting gate so flagged cows are separated automatically at exit rather than by hand
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Where it falls short
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- The subscription version never ends: at published New Zealand rates a 400-cow herd on the Premium plan pays roughly 22,700 dollars a year indefinitely, which over a ten-year collar life exceeds what an outright purchase would have cost.
- The software only works with Allflex sensors, so a farm that wants to change monitoring supplier replaces every collar or tag on every animal, which is the switching cost that keeps herds in place.
- Automated sorting requires a drafting gate that is a separate capital purchase, published in New Zealand at 38,200 to 53,500 dollars plus GST, so the alerts are only as useful as your willingness to fetch cows by hand until you buy one.
- Pricing is published in only a few markets and varies with herd size and distributor, so a buyer in North America or Europe cannot benchmark a quote without doing the cross-market conversion themselves.
- Integration into herd management packages is partner-dependent rather than universal, and a farm running an uncommon local herd recording system may find data has to be exported and reconciled rather than flowing across.
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Pricing
What Allflex Livestock Intelligence costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
SenseHub Collar Starter
$3.83 /mo
- Heat detection only
- Per cow per month, excluding GST
- Collar, shed setup and NFC stick reader included
- Rate shown for a 500 to 999 cow herd
- Ongoing subscription with no end date
SenseHub Collar Premium
$4.73 /mo
- Heat, health and rumination monitoring
- Per cow per month, excluding GST
- Collar, shed setup and NFC stick reader included
- Rate shown for a 500 to 999 cow herd
- Ongoing subscription with no end date
SenseHub purchased system
On request
- Capital purchase of tags, controller and licence
- Starter, Advanced and Premium application tiers
- Quoted regionally through distributors
Capabilities
Features
Heat detection
Activity and rumination deviation flags cows in oestrus with a suggested insemination window
Health monitoring
Rumination and eating-time drops surface metritis, ketosis and displaced abomasum candidates early
SenseHub Beef and Feedlot
Pen-level monitoring for animals not individually managed daily
Transition cow monitoring
Focused reporting on the fresh cow period where most losses occur
Group nutrition reporting
Rumination and eating time by feed group to evaluate ration changes
Sorting gate control
Drives drafting gates to separate flagged animals automatically
Electronic identification
EID and visual tag range that underpins traceability schemes as well as monitoring
Herd management integration
Data pushed into common dairy herd management packages rather than kept in a silo
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Does the software work without Allflex tags?
No. SenseHub reads Allflex sensors only, so the software and hardware are a single purchase decision.
What does SenseHub cost per cow?
Where published, a collar Starter plan is around 3.83 New Zealand dollars per cow per month and Premium around 4.73, both excluding GST and both varying with herd size and region.
Is there a way to buy it outright instead of subscribing?
Yes, the purchased system remains available with Starter, Advanced and Premium licence tiers, quoted through distributors. SenseHub GO is the subscription alternative.
Do I need a drafting gate?
Not to receive alerts, but without one you fetch flagged cows manually. Gates are a separate five-figure capital purchase.
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