Automated feeding frees farmers from manual work so they can devote their time to farm management and optimizing their feeding strategy. They can target feeding by group, record and reference mixing times and feed intake, and make changes to feeding plans based on analysis of milk performance, animal health and costs, to name a few examples. Assisted with process controls and software, feeding can become not only more automatic, but also more systematic. Farmers can test, analyze and reproduce the most healthy, effective and sustainable feeding strategies. They can optimize rations down to the gram and improve feed intake through frequent feeding with less work and less waste.