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Even cowboy jobs may not be safe from robots

By | Cattle

By Matt McFarland From the Washington Post   An Australian professor is developing a robot to monitor the health of grazing livestock, a development that could bring big changes to a profession that’s relied largely on a low-tech approach for decades but is facing a labor shortage. Salah Sukkarieh, a robotics professor at…

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On the Edge of Common Sense – by Baxter Black

By | Cowboys

This first appeared in the June 2016 issue of the excellent magazine Progressive Cattleman: Wanted:  Cowboy.  No TV, No phone.  If you don’t like dogs and can’t tough it in the mountains, don’t apply.  Alamo, Nevada   I’d like to meet the ol’ boy that wrote that ad. You can almost…

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