FLEXI FREESTALL & FLOATING NECK RAIL

The stall divider system is the structural framework that either supports or suppresses the natural resting behaviour on which dairy production depends. A cow that moves confidently into a stall, lies down without restriction, rests without pressure or entrapment, and rises without injury or pain is a cow that returns to rest sooner, lies down longer, and produces more milk across every lactation. Conventional rigid steel systems — with their fixed neck rails, low horizontal bars, and inflexible geometries — actively work against those behaviours. The Torenna Free Stall System is engineered to work with them.

The Design Philosophy
Torenna’s engineering begins with a precise understanding of bovine biomechanics during the lying and rising cycle. A cow does not step neatly into a stall and lower herself vertically. She lunges forward on rising and requires unobstructed head and neck space during both transitions. Conventional steel neck rails — positioned to limit forward advance in the stall — become painful collision points during the rising lunge, creating a behavioural deterrent that cows learn to associate with the stall environment. Over time, that aversion reduces lying time, increases standing duration, and generates the cascade of welfare, health, and production consequences that follow extended time on concrete. The Torenna system eliminates that deterrent at its source. Every component — divider geometry, neck rail behaviour, rail height and positioning — is designed around the full natural range of bovine motion rather than around the convenience of a fixed structural grid.

The Patented Floating Neck Rail
The Floating Neck Rail is the system’s defining innovation and its most significant welfare contribution. Engineered to yield on contact as the cow enters, lies, and rises, it removes the rigid obstacle that conventional steel rails present at the most biomechanically vulnerable moment of the movement cycle. Larger cows — which conventional systems penalise most severely through forced contact with fixed rails — are fully accommodated. The neck rail guides without punishing, limits forward advance without causing trauma, and returns to position without mechanical complexity. The result is a stall environment that cows enter willingly, use fully, and return to consistently — the behavioural foundation of maximum lying time and the production gains it drives.

Flexible Polymer Dividers: Conforming to the Cow
Torenna divider rails are manufactured from rigid, heavy-duty, non-conductive polymer piping engineered to flex under bovine weight. This flexibility serves two functions simultaneously. First, it allows the divider to yield subtly under lateral pressure from a resting cow, distributing contact force across the rail rather than concentrating it at a rigid point — reducing the discomfort that prevents full relaxation and extended rest. Second, it allows adjacent stalls to interact without transmitting rigid lateral forces between neighbouring animals, reducing the disturbance that causes cows to cut rest periods short. The non-conductive material eliminates the stray voltage risk associated with metal divider systems — a welfare and production factor that is frequently underestimated in conventional barn design. Polymer construction also eliminates the surface cold and condensation that metal rails carry in low-temperature barn environments, removing a further source of contact aversion.

Full Adjustability and Sustainable Investment
The Torenna Free Stall System is fully adjustable across all critical cubicle dimensions — width, length, and neck rail positioning — allowing the system to be configured precisely for the herd weight category and breed specification of each operation, and reconfigured as herd composition changes over time. This adjustability transforms the stall system from a fixed capital commitment into an adaptable infrastructure asset that follows the operation’s requirements rather than constraining them. Assembly is designed for on-farm installation using standard concrete screws and basic equipment, removing contractor dependency and the scheduling and cost pressures it creates. The system arrives with the dimensional flexibility and mechanical simplicity that DIY installation requires — without compromising the structural integrity or adjustment precision that professional freestall management demands.

Structural Longevity in Corrosive Environments
Barn environments are among the most aggressively corrosive operational environments that agricultural infrastructure encounters — continuous exposure to ammonia, moisture, urine, and organic acids challenges even high-specification materials across extended service lives. Torenna addresses this through hot-dip galvanised steel posts — a corrosion protection standard that penetrates the steel surface rather than coating it, providing structural protection that persists across decades of exposure rather than degrading from the surface inward. Posts are anchored to concrete using standard concrete screws, eliminating the complexity and cost of specialist fixings while maintaining the structural rigidity the system requires for consistent stall geometry and reliable long-term performance.

Product Range and System Integration
The Torenna range includes head-to-head and wall-mounted configurations, providing compatibility with both new barn construction and existing infrastructure modification. The Torenna Penning System integrates directly with the Free Stall System, reducing installation time and cost by eliminating the interface complexity between separate product systems. The penning system is specifically designed for compatibility with milking robots and automated dairy equipment — making the Torenna system the logical specification choice for operations investing in automation alongside stall infrastructure. For operations where herd welfare, production performance, infrastructure adaptability, and long-term capital value are managed as unified priorities, the Torenna Free Stall System is the stall divider specification those priorities converge on.