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Manitoba Co-operator: AI made me eat it

July 23, 2025 — 

Artificial intelligence will help make livestock production more efficient, said Qiang Zhang, a professor of biosystems engineering at the University of Manitoba.

In swine production, for example, farmers have to deal with environmental controls, nutrition and animal body condition, markets and feed costs — all of which contribute to overall profitability.

“It’s difficult for individual farmers to track everything,” Zhang said. “With AI, we can actually put all the information together, so not just looking at the growth of my pigs … I can grab the market information and the prediction of the market in the future.”

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