Cattle performance data-gathering goes hi-tech
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation, O2 Ireland and Sord Data Systems have linked up for the new and innovative approach to gathering the data on Irish cattle.
Inspectors can travel to farms equipped with an O2 xda, a data device with an in-built PC and mobile phone that was launched in the market earlier this year. It will contain a list of the cattle to be examined. Once on the farms, the inspectors can easily record results for each animal and immediately communicate them to the ICBF database using the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) features of the xda.
