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June 2016

Border agents train for mounted patrol

By | Cowboys, Trainers

By Lauren Villagran Appeared in the  Albuquerque Journal The four Border Patrol agents who made it through week one of horse patrol training trotted their charges around and around an arena under a hot sun, stirring dust clouds from the dirt track. They, at least, could say they had made…

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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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