Cows In Space

America's Heartland aired a compelling story this morning on PBS. One of their segments was about Cows in Space.

What's that you ask? Cows in space are cows wearing collars with GIS devices instead of bells. Now farmers can track patterns and migrations about the field as well as geothermal conditions of the field to help understand why cattle behave the way they do. All of this helps the farmer to raise better cattle and improve our environment or impact on it all at the same time.

Wow, cattle farming has really changed in the last twenty years. For more interesting information on this topic, check out this article at NewScientist.com.