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If I recall correctly, Cambridge City are using off the shelf grazing tech to help with a one off problem. These digicowbells have a more common application of
by gorgoiler 1y ago
If I recall correctly, Cambridge City are using off the shelf grazing tech to help with a one off problem.
These digicowbells have a more common application of managing grazing herds in order to rotate them evenly through pastures without having to go out and redeploy fencing every week. If you want Daisy et al to let the north half of the field regrow you just draw a line around it in the app and it’ll get left ungrazed. Popular in large commonland projects too where you want to dynamically leave parts of the land fallow.
It’s also just handy to give your cattle a mobile device. You can monitor their health and breeding status. In the spirit of the dad joke about asking if iPhones “can also make phone calls!?”, it wouldn’t be crazy if these things shipped one day with some kind of two way communications. If Gertrude gets stuck ten miles up the valley it could be handy, perhaps, to see what the problem is before you fire up the brummy quattro (Land Rover.)
- meigwilym 1y agoThis is a great idea. A drone would also work, but would need favourable weather.