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 vibrati... 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 c... 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.... 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 gastroint... 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 be... 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 m... 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 n... 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 appro... 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 thei... Read more
