Powering your mastitis decisions

With Mastatest you'll make confident decisions on if, and how to best manage each mastitis case in the herd. You'll reduce antibiotic use, and reduce milk discard, leading to savings from day one.

What Mastatest customers say

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Is mastitis costing your dairy?

Mastitis is one of the costliest herd health conditions on dairy farms, with reported costs of more than $400USD per case.

Not every mastitis case requires antibiotic treatment, and a selective treatment approach using an on-farm rapid diagnostic testing system can save you time and money.

Mastatest customers report major savings, as well as increased milk volumes through fewer with-holding periods, and reduced bulk milk cell counts.

Mastatest is helping dairy farms, large or small, achieve their goals.

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Why choose Mastatest?

Mastatest is designed for dairy farmers looking to reduce antibiotic use, increase milk volumes, and decrease bulk milk cell count. Here's how:

Easy to use

The Mastatest system takes away the hassle of diagnostics by automating sample analysis and interpretation.

Better informed decisions

Mastatest returns fully interpreted results showing bacterial species, its antibiotic sensitivity, and a veterinarian-recommended treatment plan

Increased profitability

Use your farm's saved mastitis data to inform mastitis planning, optimize overall herd health, improve milk quality, reduce costs for better farm profitability

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How Mastatest works

A mastitis diagnostic test can be started in seconds, using our easy-to-use cartridges and intuitive Lapbox. Each sample is then automatically analysed and results interpreted using a cloud-based AI algorithm.

Results - showing the pathogen, antibiotic sensitivity - and a treatment recommendation are returned to you in under 24hrs.

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Improve Profitability

Our data shows that farms using Mastatest are able to manage mastitis without antibiotics in as many as 20-50% of mild-moderate cases.

On farm, this means big reductions in the direct costs of mastitis treatment, and in the amount of milk discarded due to withholding periods.

Find out the Annual Savings possible on your farm using Mastatest.

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The mastitis tool you can trust

Over

3,250

customers

use the Mastatest system

Over

400,000

samples

analyzed and interpreted

Over

650,000

cows

in the Mastatest data management system.

The system paid for itself five times over in the first season from the reduced milk withholding and by not buying as many drugs

Andrew Dairy Farmer | New Zealand
We have halved the number if mastitis cases treated with antibiotics

Toby Herd Manager | UK
The Mastatest Lapbox is easy to use and starting a Mastatest is straight forward. I like this system because I don’t have to do any culture plate interpretation.

Luis Assistant Manager Animal Health Team | USA
In the two years of running Mastatest, we have seen a drop in the use of antibiotics. The results we get from Mastatest provide us with targeted information on bacteria and antibiotics. And by using the right antibiotics, we get really good cure rates.

Arjan Farm owner and Sharemilker | New Zealand
No more guesswork. Using Mastatest we know if a cow needs treatment and what drug to use. We’ve reduced our antibiotic usage by 25%.

Lisa Farmer | New Zealand
Ease of use and speed of turn-around time within the clinic means that sampling becomes a more attractive option for clients and easier for veterinary staff.

Dr Andrew Bates Senior Dairy Veterinarian and Dairy Science Director | New Zealand
It gives every person in our milking teams the best opportunity to identify mastitis. If they’re relying on visual cow clues, they may not see it, either because it’s not obvious or because people’s skills vary.

Angela Veterinarian | New Zealand
We were going up to six treatments with the previous treatment regime, then needing to change drug with a high number of quarters dried off and cows in the pennos for a month. With Mastatest, the cows are in the pens for a much shorter period, which has been so good.

Claire Farmer | New Zealand
We’ve got to a stage where we are managing cell count well, an average of 86,000. The Mastatest system seemed to be the most simplistic, easy culture system to use.

Dave Farm owner | New Zealand
It is good to actually see the types of mastitis coming through, build some understanding on where it’s coming from, and actually feel more confident about the dollars we are inserting into those cows.

Paul Contract milker | New Zealand