Precision livestock farming '09: papers presented at the 4th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming, Wageningen, the Netherlands, 6-8 July 2009

Precision livestock farming is becoming ever more relevant as the agricultural industry struggles to come to terms with aspects such as animal welfare, animal disease, the environment, economics, traceability, robots and livestock management. Whilst some benefits have proved elusive, others contribu...

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Corporate Author: Joint International Agricultural Conference <2009, Wageningen, Netherlands> (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wageningen, The Netherlands Wageningen Academic Publishers 2009
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:Precision livestock farming is becoming ever more relevant as the agricultural industry struggles to come to terms with aspects such as animal welfare, animal disease, the environment, economics, traceability, robots and livestock management. Whilst some benefits have proved elusive, others contribute positively to today's agriculture. Research continues to be necessary and needs to be reported and disseminated to a wide audience. These proceedings contain the reviewed papers from the 4th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming. The papers reflect the wide range of disciplines that impinge upon precision livestock farming including feeding dairy, data quality, poultry and pig applications, livestock environment, wireless sensing, dairy fertility and calving management, animal identification, mastitis detection and locomotion. The broad range of research topics reported are a valuable resource for researchers, adv
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Section 1. Feeding dairy -- section 2. Data quality and poultry applications -- section 3. Livestock environment -- section 4. Wireless sensing -- section 5. Fencing -- section 6. Dairy fertility and calving management -- section 7. Animal identification -- section 8. Pigs -- section 9. Mastitis detection -- section 10. Locomotion
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (368 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9789086866632
9086866638
DOI:10.3920/978-90-8686-663-2

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