Sheep scanning gains interest

FOUR cameras capture different angles of a sheep during development and testing of the facial recognition technology, expected by neXtgen Agri co-founder, Doctor Mark Ferguson to be on farms “within the next three years”. Photo: SUPPLIED.
Mark Rabich

WITH the recent Australian record of 59,487 sheep tags scanned on sheep sold in one day last December at the Hamilton Regional Livestock Exchange, it may be of interest to many local graziers to learn that the National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) concept has a significant potential technological augmentation on the horizon.

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