– Cattle Counting Contest! –  Stop by Booth #1943 to enter the first-ever Cattle Counting Contest! Challenge yourself to guess the number of cattle in a pasture or feedyard pen. The entry with the closest guess will win a free cattle inspection*!  *Feedyard limited to 50,000 head capacity; ranch limited to 500 acres. Feedyard or ranch must be located within the contiguous United States and outside of restricted airspace. CattleQuantsTM … Read more

The CattleQuants Team is excited to announce the award of nearly $1 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation through the Small Business Innovation Research program.  These funds will be used to further develop the CattleQuantsTM technology and will empower us to provide our customers with more insight into cattle inventories, livestock weight, and cattle health in real-time. The key objectives for this project are: 1. Develop methods for … Read more

In addition to counting cattle on feedyards, we also verify cattle lot numbers and measure stockpile volumes. Feedyard Inventory Reports Our drones acquire photos of every single pen, and our AI models automatically count the cattle in each pen. You can now get a snapshot and headcount of every single pen–regardless of feedyard size–all in one day. Cattle Lot Number Matching Need to verify cattle presence down to the lot … Read more

Livestock inspections are now being performed remotely–and not just due to COVID-19. Until recently, livestock appraisers would visit feedlots and ranches to perform their appraisals, which involves visual assessment to estimate cattle inventories.  At large feedlots where an exhaustive appraisal is next to impossible without unlimited time, only a fraction of feedlot pens would be sampled for inspection.  All that changed when the pandemic hit and many lenders deferred their … Read more