Dairy and grazing livestock
The outlying block, checked every morning
Daily head counts, fence line inspection and flagged animals, without the drive to every outlying block.
Grazing platforms of 20 to 300 hectares, docks placed by battery range.
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What actually goes wrong
The blocks furthest from the yard get checked least, and they are the ones where a fence going down matters most. A daily round of outlying grazing is an hour of driving that finds nothing on most days. On the days it would have found something, the delay between the event and the check is the whole cost: an animal through a fence onto a road, or a cow down in a corner since the previous evening.
How we set it up
A scheduled patrol per block, flown from a dock rather than driven to. Head count against expected, fence line imagery, and thermal signatures that separate an animal lying and ruminating from an animal lying and not. Anything ambiguous goes to a person before it becomes an alert.
The flight calendar across a season
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Fence line survey of every block before stock go out.
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Daily patrols with head counts and flagged animal reports.
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Grass cover mapping for the grazing rotation.
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Poaching and damage mapping for the reseeding plan.
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Fence and water point condition survey for the winter works list.
Capabilities in play, in order of how much they carry
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Livestock and fence checks
The daily round without the drive
Drones walk the fence line, count the herd and flag animals that are injured, missing or lying unusually still.
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Wildlife detection before mowing
Find the fawn before the mower does
Thermal drones search grassland ahead of the mower for fawns, hares and ground nesting birds, and mark every find.
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Automated field mapping
The base layer everything else sits on
One flight produces a high resolution 3D model of the field: elevation, drainage lines, headlands and problem ground.
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Autonomous drone network
Docked, charged, and out again at first light
Drones launch from charging stations on their own schedule, cover the fields and dock again without a driver.
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Drone seeding
Sow where the drill cannot go
Drones broadcast seed and seed pods onto ground that is too steep, too wet or too awkward for a machine.
What you end up with
Recorded on your fields, flight by flight. Not a projection.
- Head count per block recorded daily against expected
- Fence faults reported the morning they appear
- Flagged animals delivered with imagery for a human decision
- Grazing rotation planned from mapped cover
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