USDA ERS reports that wearable livestock technology was used on 1% of small farms and 12% of large-scale livestock farms in 2023. In the same window, FDA reported that sales of medically important antimicrobials for food-producing animals rose 16% in 2024 versus 2023. Monitoring is still the exception. Group treatment is still the expensive default.
Illness caught on a walk is already late. A custom stack for this is a baseline per animal for movement, feeding, and rest — wired into the records a crew already keeps — so an alert fires when the pattern breaks, not when the animal is down.
We instrument medicine events against animals flagged off-pattern on your operation, and compare them to the season you started with.
Source: USDA ERS, America’s Farms and Ranches at a Glance, 2024; FDA CVM antimicrobial sales summary, 2024.