New Technology on the pastures ?!?!
Ever seen a cow with a helmet? Well a project involving the USDA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the government's Jornada Experimental Range in southern New Mexico, you will find cows with GPS tracking devices attached to their heads. What can these GPS devices do for the farmers? This devices can help the humans track where the cattle is on the pastures and track their movement. These devices can even create a sound, signaling to the cow its time for feeding. This technology has been in the works for over 30 years and will enable the farms to do less manual herding of the animals and will allow them to keep track of them from a computer versus running after them. This site: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/aug02/cattle0802.htm
This site states how farmers are using this technology to study the grazing behavior in order to disperse the cattle more efficiently.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/05/remote.herding.ap/index.html
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