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Smart Feedlot brings the future of smart monitoring to HREC

Sue Roesler
Mar 7, 2025
Mar 7, 2025

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Rachel Gibbs, NDSU livestock systems specialist, has already been utilizing high tech equipment that gives sheep breeders/producers new information about their sheep and rams at North Dakota State University’s (NDSU) Hettinger Research Extension Center (HREC) Smart Feedlot.

Rams utilize the Smart Feed intake monitoring equipment at Hettinger Research Extension Center. Photo by NDSU/Rachel Gibbs.

Rams gather at the North Dakota State University Hettinger Research Extension Center for the Dakota Ram Test.

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Sue Roesler

HETTINGER, N.D. – It may be her first research position after receiving her doctorate in animal science, but Rachel Gibbs, NDSU livestock systems specialist, has already been utilizing high tech equipment that gives sheep breeders/producers new information about their sheep and rams at North Dakota State University’s (NDSU) Hettinger Research Extension Center (HREC) Smart Feedlot.

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