LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — A study will begin this summer in Michigan related to new technology aimed to improve efficiency in livestock farming in the state.
An M.S.U. research team has been awarded a million dollars by the U.S.D.A. to study precision farming in the swine industry. Work begins this summer to determine how new tech useful in selecting and breeding pigs can be put to use by retailers and consumers and how it can be helpful to animals.
Researcher Janice Siegford says precision livestock farming tracks individual animals, collecting data to determine how best to care for them. She says she hopes the study will find out the cost of doing this and what it will mean for the industry’s bottom line as well as consumers.
