Please excuse my intrusion, but I want to get your thoughts on an unusual question. The USDA does not allow the distribution of wold pig meat unless the pigs were live captured and then inspected by a USDA inspector to see if there are any diseased pigs. I am trying to get this meat to the hungry via Food Banks in Texas. There are about 2 million wild pigs in Texas and they are destroying crops and ranch lands.
Currently ranchers and farmers are killing them and just leaving them to rot. So, it occurred to me that quadcopters could do two things. Herd the pigs into pens or traps and then live feed video of the captured pigs back to USDA inspectors. There are already programs in place that will take it from this point and getting them processed and into the Food Banks.
Please do not think this will be easy. These creatures are super smart. But I thought it might be an interesting challenge. Almost a kind of video game. The ranches have game fences. For now, I guess the effort would be limited to ranches and farms smaller than 600 acres because of the current range of quadcopters.
Anyway, I would certainly appreciate your thoughts.
Currently ranchers and farmers are killing them and just leaving them to rot. So, it occurred to me that quadcopters could do two things. Herd the pigs into pens or traps and then live feed video of the captured pigs back to USDA inspectors. There are already programs in place that will take it from this point and getting them processed and into the Food Banks.
Please do not think this will be easy. These creatures are super smart. But I thought it might be an interesting challenge. Almost a kind of video game. The ranches have game fences. For now, I guess the effort would be limited to ranches and farms smaller than 600 acres because of the current range of quadcopters.
Anyway, I would certainly appreciate your thoughts.