Many large farms across the world use personal computers to manage their herd. To help limit of livestock disease outbreaks those are contagious, a federal plan makes it manadtory to implement a cattle tracking system by 2009. This would surely benefit farms of all sizes, making them more technologically advanced.
To help small local farmers accept and go through the transition, the Tennessee Tech University’s School of Agriculture plans with such a technology.
Tags are been placed on the ears of TTU’s cattles. These are no just identification tags with numbers. The individual electronic identification numbers on these tags can be scanned in the field. The users have to use a wand for this scanning, using a wireless Bluetooth technology. This transmits specific information about each animal to a personal computer. And, it is here the information can be read and updated.
Via: Science Daily
