Livestock
Efficient Livestock Handling
How Portable Corrals Can Streamline Your Operations
By Steve Sniff
Many people remember the day when rotary dial phones gave way to touch-tone phones, but even with this major improvement, the phone was still tethered to the wall. The cordless phone helped a bit, but you still couldn’ t go over 30 feet without losing the signal. If a businessman needed to make a call, he would either have to spend a quarter on a pay phone or head back to use the office phone. Then came the groundbreaking day in the early‘ 90s when the first cell phones were introduced.
“ The Brick” was bulky and unsightly, but it got the job done. Now that same businessman— or anyone else for that matter— could make calls from hundreds of miles away from the office and was only restricted by the distance to a nearby cell tower.
Over the years, vast improvements were made in the telecommunications field, and now we have candy-bar-sized phones that do 100 different things— including making phone calls. With the improvements in power, coverage and capabilities, we sometimes find ourselves thinking out loud,“ I wonder what we ever did without them?” This example of forward-moving innovations is used to illustrate the huge impact that advancements in portable everything technology has had on modern life.
This impact is felt even on seemingly unlikely industries like homesteading and cattle ranching.
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