This tickled my funny bone!!!

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“The livestock industry is a critical component to the overall success of our province, contributing billions of dollars to our economy,” said Don Morgan, minister for Sasktel.

I can't get reasonable cell phone service and they actually think they will be able to put tags in cows.

Jingle jingle ...he is lining his pockets

And what support have they shown the livestock industry in this province if its worth billions of dollars.

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SaskTel combining efforts with Smart Paddock to bring Australian agtech to Canada’s livestock industry

Is the headline.

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“Data collection and analytics are just as important in the livestock industry as any other. With the data captured by our ear tags, livestock farmers can track the location of all members of their herd and monitor for biometric anomalies that may indicate if a cow is sick or calving,” said Darren Wolchyn, Smart Paddock Founder and CEO. “We’re looking forward to working with SaskTel to deploy our smart GPS ear tag solution across the Canadian Prairies to improve livestock producers’ daily lives as well as the care and wellbeing of their animals.”

[burnt]

What will the fine be for having unregistered, unchipped (unjabbed) livestock in your possession, Hhmmm?

[WiltonRanch]

My fricking god. Fix the goddamned antiquated phone lines and improve cell service first. Local Reserve got sucked in by a kiwi huckster for some computer program for millions. Reminds me of this.

[Tucker]

If this parasite company is looking for a host to suck money from they would do much better looking anywhere other than a cattleman. They are a 'penny-pinching' bunch.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

If this parasite company is looking for a host to suck money from they would do much better looking anywhere other than a cattleman. They are a 'penny-pinching' bunch.

Lets say for arguments sake that you lose 1% of your cows each year to preventable problems. Layed in a hole and got upside down, stuck her head between two trees, calving at an unexpected time or place, escaped into alflafa and bloated, or disease that needs to be caught and treated immediately. The type of issues that you would literally have to live with the cows 24/7 to catch and prevent every one of them.

If you could save that 1% per year, and assume the cow saved is worth $2000, that is $20 per year per cow that one could afford to spend to break even.
Then if you could also free up some time not having to check constantly to make sure no one is sick/calving/escaped/ in distress, Not hard to save an hour a day throughout the year, what value do you put on your time?

[GDR]

Telus is doing a big push into the "lucrative ag secter" also. I feel the same way, phone service and internet suck yet you got resources for a whole new market???

[4GFarms]

How many of these over priced tags will end up caught in a fence or bale twine. Seems like other areas to look at first before this. Maybe they can go tag the cows that guys had to sell from the drought.

[Blaithin]

They probably only work in LTE service range.

Good for the companies, they’ll quickly find out how shitty they are when their products don’t work in the majority of marketed areas.

(I bought a device for cattle that relies on cell service. The company is based in the UK where service isn’t generally an issue. When they started going international they quickly developed a version that didn’t require such good service and functions fine on low bar 3G. They also replaced the versions that wouldn’t work with that version free of charge.)

[Rareearth]

It a gps - location ear tag, omg it wont tell you if its sick or stuck, even dead.

For more info you would need to strap a apple watch to its shaved ear 😊

It will happen in the future though, not sure if its 2 years or 10. Data and AI (artificial inteligence) will be what makes the ear tag company the money.