Grazing and Paddock ManagementPurpose
1.2. Prevent pasture degradation and optimize feed utilization by automating responses to stock levels, forage cover, or grazing duration.
1.3. Enable timely management decisions, compliance with lease terms, and improve reporting for stakeholders/clients.
1.4. Minimize manual monitoring labor; promote data-driven, sustainable rotational grazing practices.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Livestock tracking (RFID, GPS tags) reports excessive grazing or absence in paddocks for pre-set periods.
2.3. Scheduler reminders triggered (e.g., grazing rotation due, lease expiry).
2.4. Drone or satellite imagery analysis exceeds custom grazing index or utilization score.
Platform Variants
3.1. AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service)
• Feature/Setting: Set up SNS topic for paddock alerts; subscribe users to receive SMS, email, or push when a Lambda function receives overgrazing signal.
3.2. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Use Programmable Messaging API to send SMS when IoT platform webhook posts threshold breach event.
3.3. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Trigger a flow from SharePoint/Forms sensor data; send Teams alert or push notification via Power Automate Mobile.
3.4. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Deploy Incoming Webhook; send overgrazing notification to #grazing-alerts channel.
3.5. Cisco Webex Teams
• Feature/Setting: Use Bots API to post proactive paddock status alerts into grazing management space.
3.6. Google Cloud Pub/Sub
• Feature/Setting: Publish alert messages to Pub/Sub topics; subscribers (email/SMS service) act on overgrazed paddock data.
3.7. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Trigger an incident via REST API from monitoring tool integrating paddock sensor data.
3.8. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Use Transactional Templates API; automate structured email alerts sent on paddock status change.
3.9. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Create Zaps linking incoming paddock data via Webhooks to multiple alert channels.
3.10. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Automate messages in Teams using Graph API or connectors on overgrazing events.
3.11. Pushover
• Feature/Setting: Use Pushover API for real-time mobile alerts; configure device group and priorities per grazing area.
3.12. Discord
• Feature/Setting: Create a Bot with webhook integration to send detailed paddock alerts to server channels.
3.13. IFTTT
• Feature/Setting: Applet setup triggering mobile notifications or emails based on a webhook call from paddock sensors.
3.14. Google Chat
• Feature/Setting: Configure incoming webhook; bot alerts for agricultural team when thresholds reached.
3.15. Mailgun
• Feature/Setting: Send automated email warnings using Email API when pasture utilization data is received.
3.16. Mattermost
• Feature/Setting: Use Webhook Integration or REST API to push alerts to grazing operations channel.
3.17. VictorOps (Splunk On-Call)
• Feature/Setting: Open on-call incident via REST endpoint from agri-IoT/analytics feeds.
3.18. Telegram
• Feature/Setting: Configure Bot API to broadcast paddock overuse/underuse alerts to farm managers.
3.19. AWS Lambda
• Feature/Setting: Process sensor data; if criteria match, trigger notification workflow using Lambda event.
3.20. Webpush (Push API/Service Worker)
• Feature/Setting: Send browser push notification to users subscribed to paddock alert topics.
3.21. HubSpot
• Feature/Setting: Automate ticket or email alert to relevant contact/owner via Workflows API with paddock event data.
3.22. Freshdesk
• Feature/Setting: Create ticket for manual follow-up; triggers from Webhook or integration API.
Benefits
4.2. Greater operational transparency for agistment clients, stakeholders, and managers.
4.3. Consistent compliance with best practice and lease agreement requirements.
4.4. Maintenance of pasture health and livestock productivity by systematic management interventions.
4.5. Reduced manual oversight costs and higher confidence in data-driven decisions.