AI Feed Bunk Monitoring From the Trail Cam You Already Own
Your trail cam already knows what's happening. Now you will too.
FeedBunk AI turns the trail-camera images you're already collecting into real feed bunk analytics. Upload your photos, get a report on empty-bunk time, feed delivery patterns, and pushup activity — benchmarked against Penn State and Wisconsin Extension research. No new hardware. No new sensors. No hours of manual photo review.
Join the Beta — Get Early AccessYou Have the Camera. You're Missing the Insights.
Most dairy farms already have a trail camera pointed at the feed bunk. But what actually happens with those images?
Usually one of two things: someone spends hours scrolling through photos marking events by hand, or nobody looks at them at all.
That's what manual review can cost. And it's still prone to mistakes and fatigue.
Meanwhile, empty bunks go unnoticed at night. Late deliveries don't get flagged. Pushup schedules drift. You're sitting on data that could improve production — and getting nothing from it.
FeedBunk AI changes that. Same cameras, same images — just actual insights this time.
How Feed Bunk Monitoring Works: Upload. Analyze. Report.
Three steps from trail cam to actionable intelligence.
Upload Your Images
Pull the SD card from your trail camera and drag the files into our upload tool. No apps to configure on the camera, no WiFi setup, no new equipment to buy.
AI Analyzes Every Frame
Our ML engine goes through every image — identifying feed levels, deliveries, pushups, and empty bunk periods. Each detection comes with a timestamp, confidence score, and the source photo.
Get Your Report
A full analytics report generates automatically — metrics, charts, benchmarks, event-by-event detail. Download the PDF for your nutritionist meeting or dig into it online.
The Metrics That Actually Drive Milk Production
Every number is benchmarked against peer-reviewed dairy research — not arbitrary thresholds.
Empty Bunk Time
Total hours empty, percentage of time, longest stretch, overnight averages from 8 PM to 6 AM. Every empty hour is intake your cows aren't getting.
Feed Delivery Analysis
Deliveries per day, how fast bunks get refilled after going empty, whether your schedule is consistent day to day. You'll see patterns you never noticed before.
Pushup Activity
Pushups per day, how they're spaced, how long after first delivery. Research says 8+ pushups/day adds 8 lbs milk/cow/day. Are you hitting that?
36 Hours of Review, Replaced by a Drag and Drop.
Here's what changes when you stop doing this by hand.
Manual Review
FeedBunk AI
From Raw Images to a Report You Can Act On
FeedBunk AI doesn't just count events — it finds patterns. You'll see feeding windows, schedule consistency, and event-level detail with the actual photos attached. Export a PDF for your next meeting, or explore the data online.
The Math Is Pretty Straightforward
Penn State research: 2x/day delivery adds +4.4 lbs milk/cow/day over 1x delivery.
Wisconsin Extension: 8+ pushups/day adds +8 lbs milk/cow/day.
On a 1,000-cow dairy, even a 4 lbs/cow/day response — less than half of what the research above measured — is 4,000 lbs of milk. At $20/cwt, that’s:
Read the underlying research and the operational levers: Feed Bunk Management for Modern Dairies.
Be First to Feed Smarter
We're onboarding early access farms now. Here's what you get by joining early:
No new equipment to buy. No cost to join the beta.
Common Questions About AI Feed Bunk Monitoring
If your question isn't here, email [email protected] and we'll get back to you.
What is AI feed bunk monitoring?
AI feed bunk monitoring is automated analysis of camera footage at the feed bunk to detect deliveries, pushups, and empty-bunk periods. FeedBunk AI specifically analyzes the trail-camera images dairy farms already collect — no new cameras or sensors required.
Do I need a new feed bunk camera to use FeedBunk AI?
No. FeedBunk AI works with the trail cameras most dairies already have pointed at the bunk. Pull the SD card, upload the images, and the system detects every delivery, pushup, and empty-bunk transition automatically. No dedicated streaming cameras, sensors, or new hardware of any kind.
How accurate is automated bunk reading?
FeedBunk AI is consistent across all hours and observers because the same model scores every image. Manual bunk scoring varies operator-to-operator and gives you a single daily snapshot. AI gives 24-hour resolution, including overnight when nobody is watching.
What is a feed bunk score?
A feed bunk score is a 0–5 visual rating of how much feed remains in the bunk before the next delivery. The Penn State scale is the industry standard. Most dairies aim for 0.5–1 daily — empty enough that cows did not go without feed, full enough that wastage is minimal.
What does FeedBunk AI detect from trail-camera images?
Empty-bunk hours per day (including overnight), feed delivery events with timestamps, pushup activity and spacing, slug-feeding patterns, and sorting indicators. All metrics are benchmarked against Penn State and Wisconsin Extension research.
How much does feed bunk monitoring software cost?
FeedBunk AI is currently in beta and pricing has not been announced yet. Joining the beta is free, and beta farms will hear the details first.
What does feed bunk management actually involve on a dairy?
Feed bunk management is the operational discipline of keeping feed available, fresh, and accessible to cows — delivery cadence, pushup frequency, refusal targets, bunk scoring, and slug-feeding prevention. For the full workflow and how AI fits in, see the Aurox guide on feed bunk management.
More on bunk operations, scoring, and ration consistency: the Aurox feed bunk management guide.
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