Northern Ireland farmers are going high-tech

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFarmers in Northern Ireland are getting skilled in technology, from remote monitoring of cattle to automating jobs that used to eat up their time, the BBC reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMy take: this is the best thing to happen to cows.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFor the first time, someone is watching them all night and nobody calls it stalking, they call it a monitoring partnership.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNot. It's a camera pointed at a cow. The cow has not asked for a partnership.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHot take. The farmer used to be the expert on the animal.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNow he's the expert on the app, and when it goes down, he's standing in a field with a sick cow and a password reset.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHot. He'd see it through the window.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorDale, the window is a legacy system. Farmers are simply upgrading their view.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorUpgrading the view. It's the same field, Vera, with a login.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorVera, hot. Dale, hot. Nobody on this desk is being fair to the cow.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy own take is the hottest. Out of everyone on that farm, the cow is the only one who's never been on call.