Farmers have also been turning to connected sensors to monitor both crops and cattle, in the hopes of boosting production, efficiency and tracking the health of their herds.
There were no herds of goats forcing us to break abruptly, no mangled pye dogs, no villagers drying red chillies in the left-hand lane.
In 63 years he had never spotted a puma, though tracks and attacks on lama herds reveal the big cat's presence.
The extra draw down, coupled with drought, made it impossible for local ranchers to feed and water their herds, said Buck Owens.
We walked on, through herds of leaping lambs, to a seafood café by the water.
Marmots squeaked and hid as we ran through countless deserted alpine valleys; we saw herds of wild horses on the slopes above and mountain goats clinging to impossibly steep terrain.
Given this environment – herds of itinerant otaku wandering the streets – the continued survival of games arcades in Japan makes sense.
Along with the grasslands and herds of livestock, livelihoods have all but dried up.
At Corleggy Farmhouse, on the River Erne in County Cavan, cheese maker Silke Cropp will show you how she takes raw milk from local herds of goats, cows and sheep to make her award-winning cheeses.
Ranchers dumped most of their herds.
Herds in the southern end of Yellowstone head for the Jackson Hole Elk Refuge, where the state of Wyoming feeds each of them 3.5kg of hay a day.
