Royal Easter Show: Electronic monitoring on the farm has all the right mooves

By Julie Power
April 17 2014 - 3:00am
Keeping track: Cameron Clark and Anna model an electronic band used to feed information about the cow to the farmer. Photo: James Brickwood
Keeping track: Cameron Clark and Anna model an electronic band used to feed information about the cow to the farmer. Photo: James Brickwood

Meet Anna. This 2½-year-old Ayrshire cow is a pin-up girl for modern dairying. Rather than wearing a bell around her neck, she is wearing a rumination and activity sensor that will tell the farmer when she is ovulating, when she is about to calve, when she is eating and when she is sick.

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