The Next Revolution in Animal Agriculture
Technology has made factory farming the predominant form of animal agriculture worldwide. The global meat and dairy supply has never, in human history, been bigger. Agricultural advancements keep animal feed cheap and abundant. Antibiotics enable animals to be kept in close quarters and poor conditions. Modern supply chain infrastructure and logistics systems deliver animal products widely and cheaply. Next up: AI. These days, the talk of the agtech world is precision livestock farming. PLF is a suite of sensor technologies that collect farmed animal data to be processed through machine learning algorithms. The results help automate operations on the farm — think GPS trackers, collars that monitor feeding and resting, microphones to measure your cow’s coughs, thermal teat sensors, and recognition algorithms for everything from the faces of individual pigs to the lameness in dairy cows. This technology is in the early stages of adoption across the United States. But we don’t yet know wh
Technology has made factory farming the predominant form of animal agriculture worldwide. The global meat and dairy supply has never, in human history, been bigger. Agricultural advancements keep animal feed cheap and abundant. Antibiotics enable animals to be kept in close quarters and poor conditions. Modern supply chain infrastructure and logistics systems deliver animal products widely and cheaply. Next up: AI. These days, the talk of the agtech world is precision livestock farming. PLF is a suite of sensor technologies that collect farmed animal data to be processed through machine…
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