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Halter has revealed what founder Craig Piggott calls its “biggest ever updates” – a new partnership with SpaceX and new fertility management features for beef cattle.
Up until now, Halter has used radio masts that allow farmers to communicate with the firm’s smart collars for cows, which use stimuli to
Now, Halter is giving farmers the option of collars that can connect via SpaceX’s Starlink system of low-Earth orbiting satellites. It’s described as a world-first.
Piggott says the Starlink option will open up a new market in New Zealand: the 20% (or around 3000) of beef farms that are in areas with no cellular coverage or occupy land too mountainous for masts – particularly for regions like Central Otago, Gisborne and Southland’s high country.
