Pitstop^PLUS, our system for precision supplementation of transition dairy cows is launched on the market, and is in that connection presented at EuroTier 2022. Pitstop^PLUS is a smart livestock farming system, which means practical and economic use of feed additives and mineral feed supplements, including microminerals, which especially has an effect on dairy cows in the critical period of the lactation from approx. 3 weeks before calving and until approx. 3 months after calving.

Pitstop^PLUS is based on a need for rethinking dairy cow supplementation. Results of practical tests within the framework of the IoF2020 mega-project very clearly demonstrated the justification of the technology, which, among other things, resulted in 23% fewer disease incidences requiring the involvement of a veterinarian, and 19% lower somatic cell counts.

MicroFeeder was on 12 March 2019 converted to a private shareholding company, and has in this connection got new company registration and VAT number, DK40340793 and new bank account. The conversion was made as part of a development strategy of the company. MicroFeeder was earlier a private statutary company.

After being named enAgro for 10 years, the company changed its name back to MicroFeeder on 1 July 2018. Various activities were simultaneously transferred to Organe Institute ApS. MicroFeeder thus appears as a B4B development and production company, which with its name can better profile the MicroFeeder brand of mineral feeders.

MicroFeeder got furthermore its warehouse facilities upgraded by end of 2018, so that all raw materials now are stored indoors.

MicroFeeder Pitstop^BASIS is launched in Denmark after a 2-years development period, taking basis on a survey of dairy farmers' practices concerning mineral supplementation of their cows.

The Pitstop feeder meets the growing challenge of keeping high perforances of dairy cows in the critical period that starts 2-3 weeks before calving and lasts until the cow again is in energy balance, when the feed intake matches the feed demand, typically around 100 days after calving.

Danish Innobooster co-financing made it possible to make the final development in a more professional way, to monitor the feeder performance in a number of dairy herds, to develop add-on facilities with RFID-based dosing to enhance the function of the feeder and to initiate the testing of prototypes of these, as well as carrying out a freedom-to-operate analysis.

The amount of goods in and out of our store has increased since the introduction of BasisFeeder. We have therefore in autumn 2013 completed the improvement and expansion of our storage facilities in Hornslet.

MicroFeeder could on 11 May 2008 celebrate its 10 years jubilee.

We can look back on a true success history, where we have introduced a method for supplementation of grazing livestock and livestock kept in free housing systems and in runyards, a method which in all aspects is production economically optimal and which were almost unknown before we entered the scene.

We have simultaneously with the jubilee taken our new store facilities on the address Holmagervej 1F, DK8543 Hornslet, into use, and we are now taking care of the store, for assembly and shipping ourselves.

The MicroFeeder company changed per 4 September 2008 its name to enAgro. MicroFeeder continues as a trademark of enAgro.

The new model in plastic was introduced on the market in 2000, and Vitfoss became official dealer in Denmark already in the first sales year. Vitfoss made a nationwide sales campaign where they offered a concept-package consisting of a mineral feeder and an amount of free choice mineral supplements.

Vitfoss' campaign became a tremendous success, and there were in two months sold no less than 1,100 concept-packages. Farmers had now a good concept for mineral supplementation and Vitfoss' sale of mineral supplements increased - a win-win situation!

The price of the new mineral feeder in plastic was only half of the price of its predecessor in glass fibre, and the production in plastic made it possible to staple parts on pallets and transport them relatively cheap, wherefore export became a realistic opportunity.

The sale abroad started already in year 2000 where we exported to Germany, Holland and Sweden.

The mineral feeder is today sold in about 15 European countries - the Danish market is still very important and around 80% of the production goes to export. Supplementation after free choice in a MicroFeeder mineral feeder has become an acknowledged method in many European countries and many mineral producers are now marketing so-called free choice mineral supplements, which among other via the content of salt are designed so that the livestock's intake of it is pre-determined quite precisely.

The mineral feeder was developed with grazing cattle in mind and it has turned out that it also suits horses and sheep, and that it also functions well in runyards and free housing systems.

There has been developed a special model for sheep, and there have been made several adaptations and improvements of the design of the bottom part.

A mineral feeder in glass fibre was introduced by the company HETHO I/S after inspiration from USA.

This picture shows the previous model, which was produced in glass fibre and sold in Denmark. There were sold around 2,500 units of it, corresponding to no less than around 10% of Danish cattle herds with grazing animals, despite low marketing efforts and a higher price than the present model made of plastic.

The mineral feeder was design protected by the Danish patent authorities.