CH MODERN D (ASX: 01117) has successfully implemented two key technological innovations designed to address operational bottlenecks in dairy farming. As summer approaches, high temperatures exacerbate issues such as damp, compacted cow bedding that breeds bacteria, increasing the risk of mastitis and reducing milk yield. Concurrently, the continuous operation of tasks like feed transport, supply delivery, and safety inspections creates complex vehicle scheduling challenges. These issues strain staff, increase labor costs, and reduce overall farm efficiency.

The company's technology innovation team, guided by the group's strategy of "creating value through full-chain collaboration and leading through digital intelligence," has tackled these problems head-on. Led by Zhang Xue, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, the team has developed patented solutions to transform operational headaches into streamlined processes, helping stabilize farm operations and secure annual profitability.

Bedding Maintenance Breakthrough

A new integrated machine for bedding loosening, disinfection, and tilling consolidates three separate processes into one. Traditional methods required multiple pieces of equipment and personnel, a costly and inefficient approach magnified during summer. The new equipment thoroughly breaks up compacted bedding, removes moisture, and precisely eliminates harmful microbes like E. coli and heat-resistant spores, creating a dry, comfortable resting environment for cows.

Practical application on farms has demonstrated direct benefits: a single farm can improve labor efficiency by the equivalent of one full-time employee and reduce investment in tractor-mounted equipment by approximately 50,000 yuan. This achieves the goals of cost reduction, efficiency gain, and quality improvement. The equipment is now being deployed across all company farms.

This advancement represents a new stage in bedding maintenance equipment, setting an industry benchmark. It provides a mature, replicable, and scalable solution for the national dairy farming sector, promoting high-quality development towards greater efficiency, energy savings, and intelligent modernization.

Intelligent Vehicle Management System

To solve complex scheduling challenges during the high-frequency summer operations of feed delivery, milk transport, and supply logistics, the company has introduced a vehicle operation management system and method for farms. This system acts as an "intelligent scheduling brain," using precise data calculations to create digital representations of the operational status of different vehicle types.

The system processes abnormal operational data to generate multi-dimensional indicators, significantly enhancing the comprehensiveness and timeliness of vehicle anomaly monitoring. By analyzing the impact of operational exceptions, it enables adaptive and dynamic management for different operational centers, greatly improving management precision and reliability. It also features flexible data export functions for self-inspection and overall resource optimization by management.

Latest data shows that by deploying smart data collection terminals on over 1,200 farm vehicles, the system has enabled precise data calculation and digital modeling of operational status across all vehicle types and scenarios. With an industry-leading vehicle utilization rate of 94.1%, it has built a comprehensive data foundation covering work trajectories, duration, and energy consumption. This provides reliable support for predicting vehicle wear and optimizing intelligent scheduling, establishing a new benchmark for digital vehicle management in large-scale dairy farming in China.

Zhang Xue emphasized that in the development of modern dairy farming, competition is no longer about manpower or sheer investment, but about the "hard power" to solve practical problems. Technological innovation is not an abstract concept; it is reflected in every simplified workflow and every piece of visualized data.

Looking ahead, the company will continue to delve into frontline challenges, using digital and intelligent means to refine them into precise innovation targets. The goal is to ensure scientific and technological achievements move from the laboratory to real-world applications, transforming into "new quality productive forces" that drive high-quality development. By establishing a closed-loop process of "identifying pain points, research and development, application, and iteration," the company aims to continuously empower the industry's quality upgrade and reshape a resilient industrial ecosystem.