One of the challenges in scaling up meat production are issues of disease for the animals. This contagious infection is responsible for nearly half of all feedlot deaths for cattle every year in North America. The initial pitch for the Tag-Ag team was the use of AI & Big Data to help producers keep animals healthy. As the Tag-Ag team began its research and development process on Saturday, one clear challenge was the scope of potential animal health issues, as well as a potentially intense labor process in collecting useful information. They settled on cattle because, McCaffrey says, big ranchers are already electronically collecting data on cattle, and because BRD by itself makes a huge impact on the industry.

Source: Forbes October 06, 2020 18:33 UTC