Editorial: Precision livestock farming: a ‘per animal’ approach using advanced monitoring technologies

Halachmi, I.; Guarino, Marcella

doi:10.1017/s1751731116001142

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“…Secondly, when it comes to the monitoring of the health, activity and welfare of chickens, currently available methods and systems cannot meet the increasing technical, administrative, and organisational requirements of ever-growing farms, which limits the possibility and feasibility of monitoring their livestock (Halachmi and Guarino, 2016). Thirdly, when targeting health and disease monitoring, clinical signs such as nasal discharge and diarrhoea are non-specific and cannot be used as evidence in diagnosis (Rahimian et al, 2012); and advanced diagnostic methods including ELISA and real-time RT-PCR are only useful when daily monitoring shows the necessity, because of their requirements for expert personnel, expensive equipment, and time-consuming and costly processes (Soltan et al, 2016).…”

Section: Biosensors For Animal Diseasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Advancement in Biosensors Technology for Animal and Livestock Health Management

Neethirajan

Huang

Tuteja

et al. 2017

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Section: Biosensors For Animal Diseasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Advancement in Biosensors Technology for Animal and Livestock Health Management

Neethirajan

Huang

Tuteja

et al. 2017

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“…Crop and horticultural production have for the last number of years witnessed an explosion of new software systems, monitoring devices and machines that exploit the latest capabilities in sensing, communication, processing and power management (van Evert et al, 2017). Since the early 1990s, livestock production has also started to see more research into ICT-supported management of livestock farming systems (Halachmi and Guarino, 2016). Much of the initial developments focused on decision support systems, that is, to simulate many scenarios that affect the economic or sustainability indicators of production.…”

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Review: Precision livestock farming: building ‘digital representations’ to bring the animals closer to the farmer

Norton

Chen

Larsen

et al. 2019

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Economic pressures continue to mount on modern-day livestock farmers, forcing them to increase herds sizes in order to be commercially viable. The natural consequence of this is to drive the farmer and the animal further apart. However, closer attention to the animal not only positively impacts animal welfare and health but can also increase the capacity of the farmer to achieve a more sustainable production. State-of-the-art precision livestock farming (PLF) technology is one such means of bringing the animals closer to the farmer in the facing of expanding systems. Contrary to some current opinions, it can offer an alternative philosophy to 'farming by numbers'. This review addresses the key technology-oriented approaches to monitor animals and demonstrates how image and sound analyses can be used to build 'digital representations' of animals by giving an overview of some of the core concepts of PLF tool development and value discovery during PLF implementation. The key to developing such a representation is by measuring important behaviours and events in the livestock buildings. The application of image and sound can realise more advanced applications and has enormous potential in the industry. In the end, the importance lies in the accuracy of the developed PLF applications in the commercial farming system as this will also make the farmer embrace the technological development and ensure progress within the PLF field in favour of the livestock animals and their well-being. ImplicationsThis work address the main approaches utilised in developing precision livestock farming tools. Precision livestock farming is an approach that enables the farmer with more objective information about the animal to make better choices about the sustainability of their production system. This paper demonstrates some of the key solutions and the approaches taken to develop technologies with sound and image analyses. †

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“…In these terms, the use of a milk analysis system in real time for each individual cow will be a useful way to monitor modern dairy farms [8] . This is part of the management system known as Precision Livestock Farming (PLF), which aims to do the right thing at the right time [9] and outlines a new approach to the application of advanced technologies in the livestock sector [10] .…”

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Evaluation of automated in-line precision dairy farming technology implementation in three dairy farms in Italy

Caria

Todde

Pazzona

2019

Front. Agr. Sci. Eng.

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In recent decades, dairy farms have been exposed to wide variation in profit levels due to a considerable variability of milk price, and energy and feed costs. Consequently, it is necessary for the dairy industry to improve efficiency and productivity by adopting innovative technologies. The automated inparlour milk analysis and separation is mainly useful to produce low or high quality milk and to monitor the animal health status. Milk with high levels of protein and fat contents may reduce the intensity of standardization during cheesemaking process, reducing production costs. The study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of real-time milk separation during milking and the performance of the milking machine after implementation of AfiMilk MCS. In addition, the economic aspects were assessed. The separation of milk required the existing milking parlors to be equipped with an additional milkline to allow channeling milk with low and high coagulation properties into two different cooling tanks. The results showed that the high coagulation milk fraction, compared to the bulk milk, increased in fat (from 18% to 43%) and protein (from 3% to 7%) concentration. The technology tested has given promising results showing reliability and efficiency in milk separation in real time with affordable implementation costs.

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Editorial: Precision livestock farming: a ‘per animal’ approach using advanced monitoring technologies

Cited by 80 publications

References 14 publications

Recent Advancement in Biosensors Technology for Animal and Livestock Health Management

Recent Advancement in Biosensors Technology for Animal and Livestock Health Management

Review: Precision livestock farming: building ‘digital representations’ to bring the animals closer to the farmer

Evaluation of automated in-line precision dairy farming technology implementation in three dairy farms in Italy

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