NCDX

NCDX Aps – a Nordic company for the benefit of the farmer

NCDX is established to be part of the “international Dairy Data Exchange”, iDDEN

Background
The milk recording organizations in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark decided in 2014 to start a common development of a generic system to exchange data between the central database for milk re-cording in each country and the on-farm equipment e.g. milking equipment. The system was named NCDX, Nordic Cattle Data Exchange and the first version was released in 2016. Over the years the NCDX system has been used by more than 800 farmers in the Nordic countries, with successful dynamic exchange of data regarding movement of animals and milk recording. Technical development and maintenance of the system has been in the hands of Mtech in Finland.

The challenge regarding standardization of data exchange is well known in high technologic milk production, and therefore an issue that has been discussed in many milk recording organizations. In 2018 discussion were started among the bigger players in 5 Countries like Germany, USA, Australia, the Nordic countries and Canada to cooperate on a common data exchange. They formed a cooperation called iDDEN – international Dairy Data Exchange Network and agreed to establish a common solution for data exchange. As iDDEN discussions progressed they started to look for potential solutions on the market and found that NCDX and another solution could fulfil the requirement. After different technical analysis iDDEN decided that the NCDX solution was the best to meet iDDENs requirements

iDDEN and the organizations behind NCDX, decided after negotiations to transfer the NCDX system IPR to iDDEN for a reasonable market price. The NCDX organizations has formed a company, NCDX Aps, to join the bigger company iDDEN GmbH. See attached media release from iDDEN and more information on id-den.org

iDDEN is the largest international dairy data partnership, bringing together milk recording organizations and national databases across thirteen countries representing approximately 200,000 dairy herds, 20 million dairy cows in total and 13 million milk recorded dairy cows, was launched in November 2020. The International Dairy Data Exchange (iDDEN) is aimed at streamlining data exchange between dairy herds, milk recording organizations and dairy equipment manufacturers as well as other dairy related organizations.

Behind NCDX Aps are the following organization, which can be contacted via the mentioned boardmembers: