The NZ innovator trying to transform mastitis detection

The NZ innovator trying to transform mastitis detection
Bovonic chair Bridgit Hawkins and founder Liam Kampshof open the company’s new premises in Tauranga. (Image: Supplied)
Riley Kennedy
A Bunnings pipe, a breadboard and a Sistema lunchbox. That’s what the prototype for Liam Kampshof’s mastitis detection technology started as. Now, 1,000 units are installed in cow sheds around the country.Despite growing up on a Waikato dairy farm, Kampshof never thought he was destined to be a farmer. “I was probably a bit too nerdy, potentially.”Instead, he went to Auckland to obtain a biomedical engineering degree. From there, he went straight to the UK for four years doing medical device development, particularl...

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