https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/non-clinical-questions/21620/texting-cows-this-is-definitely-the-future From The Guardian, and it is not even first of April: They have now designed devices - &quot;Moocall&quot; - which you attach to a cow and when activated they send a text message to the farmer&#39;s phone saying for example: COME QUICK I AM HAVING BABIES! Iten-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/130317?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:48:03 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:cf2e5c16-58e5-443f-93fc-b56f1605ae5cAlan Tevendale<p>I was at a farm a couple of weeks ago that have started to use ear tags that monitor body temperature.&nbsp; I think the long term plan with these was eventually to have them texting (or some form of message) the client to tell them they are pyrexic.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/130286?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:03:35 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:fa69cc77-bdec-4d1f-bad9-8676c1beeb25Hannah Wynne Richards<p>&nbsp;Restore farm gate prices to the real level they were 50 years ago, and the herd sizes/ratio of stockmen to cows could fall to a level where the farmer/stockman would have the time to actually look at /know individual cows.</p> <p>Wynne</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>