Thunder Bay, Ontario, Great White North | S Frisch - 1/11/2026 20:12 If the feeder wants to cheat the system he'll still find a way. Talking with my neighbor who uses EZ Feed, when the feeder was a bit short on silage and didn't want to get more from the pit, he would push down on the mixer with the loader bucket to get the right weight. Or just add a different ingredient. It all comes down to integrity.
Agreed, not going to be able to stop someone who is malicious.
But sometimes people get sloppy, or in a rush and think they can get away with cutting a few corners here and there.
The Milc software provides a graph of the load weight over time.
If the ingredient switches from say corn silage to barley silage as it hits the programmed weight, and there is no delay of a half a minute or more before the barley silage goes in it is quite obvious the feeder didn't drive back to the bag and dump the extra corn, drive to the barley bag, load the bucket, and drive back to the mixer to dump the barley in.
They pretended the corn silage magically turned to barley silage in a few seconds inside the loader bucket.
The cows don't like this type of magical sorcery.
Sometimes people get rushed and think they can cheat a little. The software data makes it quite obvious if a proper mix was not loaded. And if the feeder knows the boss can figure this out, there is more likelihood that proper protocols will be followed.
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