What your feed is actually costing you per animal — not per herd.
Two cows on the same ration convert it differently. On a herd average they look identical, and you keep paying for both.
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Individual Animal Insights Built Around Increasing Profitability.
C-Lock Inc. builds precision measurement equipment for both cattle and dairy producers. Our systems record what each animal eats, what it weighs, and how efficiently it converts feed — in the barns, feedlots and handling facilities you already have.
That data tells you which animals convert feed cheaply, which ones are costing you, and what to do about it. Built in Rapid City, South Dakota; running on farms and research stations worldwide.
SMARTFEED
Individual feed intake
SMARTSCALE
Daily body weight
QUICKFLUX
Rapid animal phenotyping
10–13 November 2026, Hanover. Find us at
HALLE 11
STAND C03
We Identify Your Top & Bottom Performers.
C-Lock scores every animal in the group it actually runs with — cows on income over feed, bulls and feeders on cost of gain — then ranks them top to bottom.
DAIRY · MEI Metabolic Efficiency Index
Two cows can eat the same ration, milk in the same parlor, and look the same in the alley — yet turn that feed into very different amounts of milk. Bulk-tank averages hide it. A per-cow number doesn't.
Top Performer
COW ID · 1042
+$610 Income over feed / year
MEI Score
- Daily Milk
- 92 lb
- Daily Feed (DMI)
- 54 lb
- Feed Efficiency
- 1.70
Bottom Performer
COW ID · 1387
−$746 Income over feed / year
MEI Score
- Daily Milk
- 78 lb
- Daily Feed (DMI)
- 58 lb
- Feed Efficiency
- 1.34
Nearly the same feed bunk. Very different milk out of it. $1,725-per-year swing between these two cows — and you can't see it from the alley.
BEEF · CGI Cost of Gain Index
Two bulls can eat the same ration, stand in the same test pen, and look the same over the rail, yet convert feed into gain at very different rates. That difference is heritable, and it rides straight into their calves.
Top Performer
Animal ID · 430
$0.74 Cost per lb of gain
Cost of gain — lower is better
- Daily intake
- 22.4 lb
- Daily gain
- 3.41 lb
- Lifetime feed-efficiency value
- $10,768
Bottom Performer
Animal ID · 627
$1.39 Cost per lb of gain
Cost of gain — lower is better
- Daily Milk
- 24.8 lb
- Daily Feed (DMI)
- 3.18 lb
- Feed Efficiency
- $2,575
Same intake range. Nearly identical daily gain on the scale. Almost twice the cost per pound. $456 per head separates the top and bottom quartile across a 180-day test.
Rank Your Herd with C-Lock.
Come to the stand and we'll walk you through what indexing your own herd would look like: every animal scored on efficiency, ranked top to bottom, and what that ranking changes about your breeding, culling and day-to-day management. It is the same conversation whether you milk cows or feed cattle.
QUICKFLUX
Rapid Phenotyping System
3–5 MIN PER ANIMAL
MEI SCORE · RANKED IN GROUP
QuickFlux scores individual animals on metabolic efficiency in 3 to 5 minutes, in the handling facilities you already have. The Metabolic Efficiency Index ranks your herd top to bottom, giving you measured data behind every breeding, culling and replacement decision.
Ranked top to bottom
Every animal scored against the group it ran with — not a sample.
No intake trial
No individual feed intake equipment and no test period to run.
Uses your current facilities
Headlocks, chutes, palpation rails, tie stalls. No installation, no site prep.
Better Data. Better Decisions.
Better Profits.
Running on farms, feedlots and research stations in more than 50 countries. Built in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Live Demonstrations, Four Times a Day.
Every day of the show, Tue 10 to Fri 13 November. Just turn up — or book a private demonstration below.
09:00 11:00 13:00 15:00
What We'd Like to Talk About.
Ranking your herd from your cheapest converters to your most expensive.
Measured intake and measured gain give every animal a cost of gain, ranked against the group it ran with. The bottom of that ranking is where your money goes.
Managing animals individually instead of by pen average.
Daily intake and daily body weight flag the animal that goes off feed before the pen average moves. Earlier action, fewer losses, less feed wasted.
Keeping and breeding the genetics that convert cheaply.
Feed efficiency is heritable, and it rides into the next calf crop. Breeding values need measured phenotypes in volume. We'd like to talk about what that takes.
Every Pound of Ration. Every Pound of Weight.
Two pieces of hardware sit in the pen and do the counting for you. No chute work, no scheduled weigh days, no added labor.
SMARTFEED.
Individual feed intake
Animals walk up and eat on their own schedule. The RFID reader identifies the animal, the bunk weighs the visit, and intake is logged to the animal — not the pen. Every meal, every day, automatically.
View product page →
SMARTSCALE.
Daily body weight
Mounted in front of the water tank, SmartScale weighs every animal every time they drink. Daily body weight, captured without ever moving the animal — no chute, no shrink, no scheduled weigh day.
View product page →Two Films From Working Operations.
Australian Producer Story
A producer in Australia on what individual-animal measurement changed in the way he runs cattle.
C-Lock Inc. Innovation Story
How the equipment is built in Rapid City, South Dakota, and what it does on farms and research stations.
Who You'll Meet.
Three of us are on the stand for all four days. Ask for any of them by name.
We're Speaking on the DLG Expert Stage.
The Expert Stage is in Halle 12 — we'll walk you back to our stand in Halle 11 afterwards.
- Topic
- New Product Launch: QuickFlux - Worlds First Rapid Phenotyping System
- Speaker
- Brandon Peterson
- When
- [DAY, TIME PENDING]
- Where
- DLG Expert Stage Cattle, Halle 12
Guest Speakers at Our Stand. - (Coming Soon)
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Finding Us.
HALLE 11
STAND C03
Halle 11 is the cattle breeding and genetics hall, home of TopTierTreff.
Free Ticket to EuroTier 2026.
Entry to EuroTier normally costs €78 for a four-day pass. We have free tickets for international visitors — tell us where to send yours.
We’re happy to provide your complimentary EuroTier 2026 ticket! All we ask in return is that you make time to visit the C-Lock stand, meet our team, and consider taking a photo with us to share on social media. Don’t forget to tag C-Lock!
