Precision livestock farming: an overview on the application in extensive systems

Italian Journal of Animal Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 24(1), P. 859 - 884

Published: March 24, 2025

Language: Английский

May the Extensive Farming System of Small Ruminants Be Smart?

Agriculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(9), P. 929 - 929

Published: April 24, 2025

Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) applies a complex of sensor technology, algorithms, and multiple tools for individual, real-time livestock monitoring. In intensive systems, PLF is now quite widespread, allowing the optimisation management, thanks to early recognition diseases possibility monitoring animals’ feeding reproductive behaviour, with an overall improvement their welfare. Similarly, systems represent opportunity improve profitability sustainability extensive farming including those small ruminants, rationalising use pastures by avoiding overgrazing controlling animals. Despite distribution in several parts world, low profit relatively high cost devices cause delays implementing ruminants compared dairy cows. Applying these animals requires customisation systems. many cases, unit prices sensors are higher than developed large due miniaturisation production costs associated lower numbers. Sheep goat farms often mountainous remote areas poor technological infrastructure ineffective electricity, telephone, internet services. Moreover, ruminant usually advanced age farmers, contributing local initiatives implementation. A targeted literature analysis was carried out identify technologies already applied or at stage development management grazing animals, particularly sheep goats, effects on nutrition, production, animal The current developments include wearable, non-wearable, network technologies. review involved main fields application can help most suitable managing goats contribute selecting more sustainable efficient solutions line environmental welfare concerns.

Language: Английский

Future of sustainable farming: exploring opportunities and overcoming barriers in drone-IoT integration

Discover Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 5(1)

Published: Dec. 18, 2024

Language: Английский