The old-fashioned Swiss cow bell is getting a high-tech upgrade courtesy of Australian developed ear tag technology…Read More
beefcentral, March 18, 2022
A GPS-enabled cattle ear tag providing accurate and timely information about livestock location and movement has been commercially released for the first time…Read More
beefcentral, March 17, 2020
While there was a bewildering array of promising technologies on show at the EvokeAg tech event in Melbourne last week, many remain in start-up, development or pre-commercial stage. Harder to find were products or services that could be described as being in full-blown commercial use…Read More
Jon Condon, February 26, 2020
A livestock counting system using artificial intelligence will be ready for the live export industry this year and for use in sheep saleyards by April 2020…Read More
beefcentral, November 4, 2019
GPS tracking devices aren’t just revolutionising livestock monitoring and offering up a solution to cattle theft – they’re also delivering guaranteed best practice certifications for consumers. Farming technology company IDS Australasia’s ‘GFARM’ tracker, which works hand-in-hand with livestock management tools to draw on real-time information, is now commercially available to producers…Read More
beefcentral, August 12, 2019
An automated livestock management system developed by Central Queensland University has had its first international deployment, with two Argentinean research stations installing the system this week…Read More
beefcentral, July 31, 2019
A new smartphone accessory developed in Europe claims to be able to help farmers calculate the weight of cattle from meteres away in a paddock or feedlot with 95 percent accuracy, without having to run them over a set of scales…Read More
A livestock tracking system initially developed for the African rangelands is being adapted for application in the vast pastoral livestock spreads of Australia…Read More
Neil Lyon, November 23, 2018
CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and agtech startup Ceres Tag have created a new type of ‘fit bit’ to help farmers to keep track of where their livestock are and what they are doing…Read More
beefcentral, November 21, 2018
About 10,000 cattle on properties and feedlots in NSW will be fitted with commercially-available eartag monitoring devices as part of the largest real-time cattle health pilot ever conducted in Australia…Read More
beefcentral, September 10, 2018
‘Green light’ tag for animal health monitoring | $14m investment in farm management software developer | $500,000 fund to stimulate WA’s agtech | Great ag ideas abound in agrifood pitch session
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AgTech startup Ceres Tag Pty Ltd and the Caason Group will partner to conduct a trial of the Ceres Tag smart ear tag at Caason’s Aileron Pastoral Holdings near Alice Springs next year.
beefcentral, August 12, 2018