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Saves on time and fuel by only travelling to the yard should an animal require assistance during birth. Let’s say, this week, you have ten cows that are due to give birth,” Neil told me, “or ten that are due to cycle… The app, through the lists, prioritises them and lets the farmer know which cows to focus on. Vodafone's IoT platform supports the Narrowband Internet of Things (Nb-IoT) standard which provides "extended coverage - rural and deep indoors" along with higher spectrum efficiency and better battery life. He believed that this could have been prevented if he had been there to assist and began looking for a solution.

With calving and lambing usually taking place on most farms from January until mid-April, it can be difficult to source labour to manage workload evenly across the farm unit. In practice, this means attaching a tracker to a vasectomised bull in a field, full of female cows ready to breed, and seeing when the bull tries to have sex with the female cows.

This will give you a further year of unlimited usage, unlimited SMS messages, support and software updates. With understaffing, employees consistently working off-farm, and farmers often having little extra labour to help out, this is one industry that could really use new tools and technology to lend a hand.

The Farm Cyborg section of the exhibition explores how over the last decade we have begun outfitting plants, landscapes and animals with sensors, actuators and wearable computers. The Green Transition Weekly analysis of the shift to a new economy from the New Statesman's Spotlight on Policy team. Almost 20% of all heifers will have complications the first time they calf, even more experienced cows can have trouble with up to 8% having complications during birth.