Mastitis costs Kiwi farmers at least $200 million every year. With increasing incentives to reduce somatic cell counts and new regulations on antibiotic use, farmers need a better solution to identify cows with mastitis so they can treat it with greater accuracy and speed. Current mastitis detection products are either slow or complex.

Bovonic has developed novel milk sensor technology which will enable farmers to improve the impact, health, and profits of their animals. It will soon release Quadsense, an inline, automated detector which screens for mastitis in real-time. Its design is purposefully robust and streamlined, allowing farmers to install it themselves into any milking cups around the world. This will revolutionise how farmers test for this costly disease, which will not only boost production and profits, but also improve animal health and reduce antibiotic use, emissions, and farmer stress.

This Tauranga company was founded in early 2021 by Liam Kampshof on his return from London, where he worked for four years in medical device product development. Liam was raised on dairy farms in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty, so has used this experience in product development and background in dairy to develop Quadsense.