A smartphone switches its orientation from portrait to landscape depending on how it’s tilted. A car’s airbags inflate when it senses collision forces. By detecting earth’s vibrations, a com... Read more
The analysis of large volumes of data collected from fields, warehouses, trucks – and even animals’ stomachs – may be key to preventing widespread hunger in the coming deca... Read more
Robots could be used in the future to round up cows on dairy farms, according to researchers. A four-wheeled device, known as Rover, has been tested by a team at Sydney University. It was us... Read more
Vaccinating cattle against the E. coli O157 bacterium could cut the number of human cases of the disease by 85%, according to scientists. The bacteria, which cause severe gastrointestinal il... Read more
Dairy cows never take a day off. That means dairy farmers had to keep a similar work schedule — until robotic milking came along. Although robotic milking technology has been around... Read more
A scientist describes his unconventional approach to food safety A cow’s rumen has an incredibly thick population of microbes, somewhere between 10 billion and 100 billion microbes pe... Read more
A new approach to vaccinating cattle could help farmers worldwide, research suggests. Scientists have developed a technique using a harmless parasite, which lives in cows but has no effect o... Read more
Image via Wikipedia This is the first in our new category of “Innovation Needed”. The areas we will cover in this section all require a radical rethinking of our approach and re... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Hey diddle diddle. Guess what the cow has done this time? America’s dairy farmers could soon find themselves in the computer business, with the manure from their cows pos... Read more
