13 Breakthrough Technologies Support Sustainable, Efficient Livestock Industry

By: Laurie Bedord

As consumers continue to demand better animal welfare and improved sustainability across the livestock sector, new innovations are emerging that enable producers to monitor herd health in real time, prevent disease outbreaks, and optimize nutrition. Thirteen of these breakthrough technologies will be spotlighted at the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit in San Francisco on March 16, 2020. Solutions range from a nonantibiotic treatment for bovine mastitis to autonomous livestock monitoring.

Armenta (Israel). This company has developed the first nonantibiotic treatment for bovine mastitis using acoustic pulse technology (APT). Mastitis causes annual losses of over $6 billion in the U.S. and Europe. Infected cows treated with APT have shown 70% cure rates and consequently 10% increase in milk yield.