Many bulls are bought early in the year when most bull sales are held from February to April. For earlier sales, those occurring in December or January, purebred producers usually have semen evaluations carried out before bulls are delivered or picked up at the farm. When is the gap too big between when a semen […] Read more
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Bias could be history in dairy cow assessment
An Edmonton start-up’s experimentation with artificial intelligence-based evaluation could replace the human factor
An Edmonton-based start-up company says results from its artificial intelligence-based classification of dairy cows comes within two percent of human results. Animal science specialist Ghader Manafiazar, one of three co-founders of iClassifier, says an analysis of approximately 30,000 images collected from Canadian dairy farms shows an accuracy rate of 98 percent from the company’s machine […] Read more
