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Your Milk May Soon Come From Cows That Can Text - 1984hasarrived - 11-15-2016 This is udderly ridiculous - sorry, i had to do that! This is just scary stuff - and look at where they are targetting, a cow near you soon. Quote:Cows across 350 farms in nearly two dozen countries around the world are now embedded with hot-dog-sized wireless sensors in their stomachs. It may sound a bit Orwellian to some, but the idea is to help larger farms better manage their herds—by catching major health changes early and then texting and emailing that info to farmers and their vets. Developed by Austrian startup SmaXtec, the sensor tracks various health metrics continuously, including stomach pH, movement, activity, and temperature, and can predict with 95% accuracy when a cow will give birth, reports Bloomberg. They can also detect when a cow is about to go into heat. "The crux of any dairy farm is fertility," one farmer says. "We are trying to have a calf per cow every year. Everything we do on the farm comes back to that." http://www.newser.com/story/233695/your-milk-may-soon-come-from-cows-with-embedded-sensors.html RE: Your Milk May Soon Come From Cows That Can Text - Daitengu - 11-15-2016 Will stick with old-fashion way an get milk from cute girls boobs ...... RE: Your Milk May Soon Come From Cows That Can Text - Grace - 11-15-2016 That's really cool.. awesome tech.. the problem though is the cost, at 600 for the start up and 10.00 per cow per month, that's really high.. a dairy farm with 500 head of cattle would be 60,000 dollars a year. I personally can't see it saving that much cost through early detection.. I do see it raising milk prices substantially, if farmers actually buy into it. |