Managing total grazing pressure on extensive sheep stations is just one of the benefits of the soon to be commercialised animal recognition technology. The technology uses machine vision instruments to identify animals and control their movements through automated gates to allow or deny them access to watering or feeding points. It can also be used to count stock numbers passing through the gate. Rural Pacific Marketing has obtained the licence to commercialise the technology, which has been developed during the past five years by Neal Finch, research officer in wildlife biology from Queensland University's School of Animal Studies, and Mark Dunn from the University of Southern Queensland.
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