GLA
Well-known member
Red Robin,
Hate to disappoint you but the vision camera has been in use in the Excel plants for nearly two years now. Excel and Cargill have completely changed how they do their own company business because of what the vision cam is doing for them in the plant. Whether or not you believe the vision cam is accurate, makes no difference, because Excel is using it and if you sell to those plants, your cattle will be evaluated by the camera. Use of the camera will only get larger as more plants adopt it's use........right or wrong, that's the cold hard facts of life.
Now about ultrasound. Sounds to me like you may be a believer in the Designer Genes program. Fine, but there is another system out there that has run over a million cattle or more thru it's system and is in constant use in the all the Cargill Feedyards. It is NOT the ECM system. All cattle are scanned and sorted for optimum outdates. They are constantly doing more than 2 to 3 cattle a minute.
The person here who said they scanned cattle going to PM Beef plants was probably using one of our licensed technicians to scan and sort his cattle.
The real important fact to visualize in all these discussion is the ability to compare ultrasound data with vision camera results.......thereby having the ability to fine tune sorting parameters as they compare to vision camera grading numbers. It's coming and should be here sooner than you think.
I don't think a 2 minute per animal ultrasounding is acceptable in today's fast paced feedyards. Our system is calibrated against packing house data on a daily basis.......not against some guru who thinks they know the business of evaluating carcasses better than govt graders or a certified vision camera......and we do it alot faster than 2 a minute.
Really appreciate all the comments regarding this subject......I have acquired some valuable information.........
Thanks,
GLA
Hate to disappoint you but the vision camera has been in use in the Excel plants for nearly two years now. Excel and Cargill have completely changed how they do their own company business because of what the vision cam is doing for them in the plant. Whether or not you believe the vision cam is accurate, makes no difference, because Excel is using it and if you sell to those plants, your cattle will be evaluated by the camera. Use of the camera will only get larger as more plants adopt it's use........right or wrong, that's the cold hard facts of life.
Now about ultrasound. Sounds to me like you may be a believer in the Designer Genes program. Fine, but there is another system out there that has run over a million cattle or more thru it's system and is in constant use in the all the Cargill Feedyards. It is NOT the ECM system. All cattle are scanned and sorted for optimum outdates. They are constantly doing more than 2 to 3 cattle a minute.
The person here who said they scanned cattle going to PM Beef plants was probably using one of our licensed technicians to scan and sort his cattle.
The real important fact to visualize in all these discussion is the ability to compare ultrasound data with vision camera results.......thereby having the ability to fine tune sorting parameters as they compare to vision camera grading numbers. It's coming and should be here sooner than you think.
I don't think a 2 minute per animal ultrasounding is acceptable in today's fast paced feedyards. Our system is calibrated against packing house data on a daily basis.......not against some guru who thinks they know the business of evaluating carcasses better than govt graders or a certified vision camera......and we do it alot faster than 2 a minute.
Really appreciate all the comments regarding this subject......I have acquired some valuable information.........
Thanks,
GLA