Improve the Nutrient Cycling Efficiency of a Dairy Farm

OVERVIEW

La Mocherita, the Seeker for this Wazoku Crowd Challenge, is seeking a sustainable farming machine and technology partner to streamline material management across their production processes, focusing on nutrient cycling, herd health and manure management.

The current process results in the inability to make use of 6,000 tons of fresh feed every year, and involves the costly disposal of 2,600 m³ effluents every month.

This challenge aims to identify a machinery and technology stack that improves material management throughout the operation.

This is a Scouting Challenge seeking a partner or supplier to provide systems and expertise to solve La Mocherita’s business challenge; the Solver is invited to submit a written proposal to be evaluated by La Mocherita with the goal of establishing a collaborative partnership.

Submissions to this Challenge must be received by 11:59 PM (US Eastern Time) on May 26th, 2025.

- Login or register your interest to access attachments with more problem details and to start collaborating!

ABOUT THE SEEKER & ELIGIBILITY

La Mocherita, is a leader in circular dairy farming in Peru, and part of the Danper Group. Danper produces and exports top quality foods to customers in five continents.

Please review the later Participation Guidance section before submitting a proposal.

Register your interest to see also the Participation Requirements and Eligibility section in the attachment Proposals Guidelines.

THE CHALLENGE

Background

La Mocherita as a dairy farm was founded with a sustainable feed model, where the diet of over 1,500 dairy cows is supplemented with trimmings, prunings, peel and other cellulosic waste from local fruit and produce businesses. This approach to their diet has been developed over the years to generate high quality milk production on a par with the top farms in the country, and critically setting La Mocherita apart as a partner for these local growers, to fill the gap towards their own fully sustainable production.

The Challenge
There are three sub-topics to the challenge, register your interest in the challenge to gain access to the Problem Details attachment, which details each of the three sub-topics.

You are welcome to submit for one or all of the sub-topics.

La Mocherita seeks to identify a partner to provide commercially available machinery capable of handling 2,000 tons of artichoke bracts a month in order to reduce its moisture content from 90% to 75%.

The machinery must be powered by biomethane produced from anaerobic fermentation of milking parlor effluents.

A wholistic management support system is required to monitor successful material management for feed, herd health and waste management, delivering real time information through the implementation of sensing and monitoring applications throughout the farm operations.

The partner must be capable of providing the engineering design, machinery manufacturing and digitalized control of the operations spanning from feed management, animal monitoring and milking, manure management and fermentation processes.

If commercial options are unavailable, particularly for the control and monitoring integration, suppliers are welcome to subcontract or present an integrated proposal as a consortium.

SOLUTION REQUIREMENTS

You are welcome to submit to one or all of the sub-topics 1-3.

For more detail about the solution requirements for each of the three sub-topics to the challenge, register your interest in the challenge and gain access to the Problem Details attachment.

In summary, La Mocherita is interested in applications from machinery and technology partners that can meet one or all of the following must have requirements:

1. Drying process suitable to handle 2,000 ton/month artichoke bracts and feed them into silage machinery.
2. Second generation fermentation machinery for milking parlor effluents; capable of handling 2,600 m3 of effluent per month.
3. Integration of herd data management information with material and energy flows throughout the farm.
4. Cost/benefit that is feasible in the emerging, mixed economy of Peru.

Nice to have requirements;

• The feed drying component
  • could be powered by solar energy
  • does not have to depend on thermal processes

Consortium and/or new component considerations;

• La Mocherita is totally open to a consortia proposal that integrates solutions from different suppliers and/or developers
• La Mocherita is open to proposals where some of the components or elements are in development or would require adaptation; please provide extra details as appropriate

Register your interest to see also the attachment Proposals Guidelines, which has more details about the evaluation phases and evaluation criteria.

Solutions with Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) 7-9 are invited.

This Scouting Challenge has the following features:

1. Register your interest to see also the attachment Proposals Guidelines, which has more details about the evaluation phases and evaluation criteria.
2. La Mocherita and its evaluation team will evaluate your submission to determine their interest to contact you for further business and collaboration discussions.
3. You will then have scope to negotiate the terms of any contract (including the scope of supply) directly with La Mocherita.
4. The monetary value of any contract will vary depending on the amount of machinery and technology to be delivered and the agreed-upon time frame.

YOUR SUBMISSION

Please login and register your interest, to complete the submission form.

Register your interest to see also the attachment Proposals Guidelines, which has more details about your Expected Proposal Structure.

 The submitted proposals must be written in English and can include:

1. Participation Type – you will first be asked to inform us how you are participating in this challenge, as a Solver (Individual), or Solver (Organization).
2. Solution Stage - the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of your proposal.
3. Problem & Opportunity - highlight the innovation in your approach to the Problem, its point of difference, and the specific advantages/benefits this brings (up to 500 words).
4. Solution Overview - detail the features of your proposal and how they address the SOLUTION REQUIREMENTS (500 words, there is space to add more in the summary field, and attach supporting data, diagrams, etc).
5. Experience - Expertise, use cases and skills you or your organization have in relation to your proposal (up to 500 words).
6. Solution Risks - any risks you see with your solution and how you would plan for this (up to 500 words).
7. Timeline, capability and costs - describe what you think is required to deliver the solution, estimated time and cost (up to 500 words).
8. Online References - provide links to any websites, publications, articles or press releases of relevance (up to 500 words).

PARTICIPATION GUIDANCE

1. Submission Close Date: Submissions to this Challenge must be received by 11:59 PM (US Eastern Time) on May 26th, 2025.
2. Late submissions: Late submissions will not be considered.
3. Multiple submissions, 3 Maximum: In case of multiple submissions by the same Solver, only 3 submissions – the final 3 submitted – will be considered. Any other submissions will be deleted prior to evaluation.
4. Submission form and attachments: Your submission will be evaluated by the evaluation team first reviewing the information and content you have submitted at the submission form, with attachments used as additional context to your form submission. Submissions relying solely on attachments will receive less attention.
5. Evaluation notification steps: After the Challenge submission close date, La Mocherita's evaluation team will review all proposals and select winning proposals according to the timeline in the Challenge header. All who submit a proposal will be notified about the status of their submission. Register your interest to see also the attachment Proposals Guidelines, which has more details about the evaluation phases and evaluation criteria.
6. Use of AI: Please note that any submissions produced solely with generative AI are not of interest.
7. Learn more: Find out more about participation in Wazoku Crowd Challenges.