A NEW phase of work has commenced in the Northern Breed Information Nucleus (BIN) genetics project based at Warraka station, near Taroom in Central Queensland, with the deployment of Ceres smart ear tags on 122 Spyglass station Brahman steers.
Ceres tags are equipped with accelerometer and GPS positioning technology and communicate with a series of low-level satellites to upload data on animal location, behaviour, and movement.
Ceres has a license from CSIRO to use the eGrazor software technology which interprets the accelerometer data into animal behaviour characteristics, time…
