By Ben Allen – CEO, BinSentry
Aviagen. Maple Leaf Foods. HANOR.
They’re all poultry and swine industry leaders with one big thing in common: They trust BinSentry to provide 100% coverage for their animal feed supply chains.
By choosing BinSentry’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered feed inventory management platform, they’re cutting costs and increasing profits while improving workplace safety, growing healthier animals and improving efficiency throughout their operations.
They’ve joined other leaders like Wayne-Sanderson Farms and Cargill in recognizing a simple truth: one of the biggest problems facing feed mills, feed manufacturers and bulk commodity handlers is that people have to climb ladders and peer into dark, dusty bins to estimate what’s inside.
It’s a dangerous, inefficient way to get terrible data. But for decades, it was all we had.
Even at the farm level, there’s no real visibility into feed management costs — and feed is by far the biggest cost center for poultry and swine producers.
There’s just no reason to operate that way in 2025.
With advances in AI technology and cloud-based analytics, there is a better alternative.
The BinSentry platform delivers precise, real-time inventory monitoring, so operators always know precisely what is in their bins and silos at any moment in time. High-definition 3D sensors, designed to see past dust and debris, are paired with proprietary, AI-enhanced software to provide real-time data to identify and resolve issues like feed outages and efficiently schedule deliveries.
In today’s market, where margins are extremely tight, embracing AI technology is giving companies like Aviagen, Maple Leaf and HANOR a huge operational advantage over their competitors. Here’s how:
- Lower feed costs: Improved slide management prevents costly out-of-feed events and lowers feed conversion ratios.
- Accurate feed budgets: Precision tools reduce allow feed suppliers and producers to reduce waste and time spent handling leftover feed at the end of every cycle.
- Supply chain visibility: Real-time data provides actionable insights that allow operators to improve underperforming sites, identify and resolve issues before they become expensive problems.
- Lower transportation costs: Accurate, efficient ordering means fewer, fuller trucks on the road.
- Enhanced workplace safety: no more falls from ladders during manual inventory checks
The fact is, AI is not some “nice to have” technology of the future. It’s already here.
Companies in a wide range of industries are deploying AI-driven, predictive tools to optimize their supply chains and drive efficiency and growth.
So why not the animal protein sector?
The goal isn’t to turn farm and mill workers into data experts – it’s to provide easy-to-use tools that allow them to engage with the data and make their lives better by eliminating mundane tasks so they can focus on more important problems.
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Ben Allen is CEO of BinSentry and an expert on how A.I., data analytics and agtech are transforming the animal feed supply chain.