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Precision Dairy Opportunities and Challenges

Jeffrey Bewley
INTRODUCTION Across the globe, the trend toward fewer, larger dairy operations continues.  Dairy operations today are characterized by narrower profit margins than in the past, largely because of reduced governmental involvement in regulating agricultural commodity prices.  Consequently...
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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics-Driven Digital Agriculture

Kyeong-Hwan Lee
ABSTRACT The global agriculture and food industry are facing four main challenges: increased global population, constrained natural resources, climate change reducing productivity, and food waste causing market inefficiency and environment threat. Digital agriculture system (DAS), which uses the...
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Measurement of Reticuloruminal Function in Cattle Using a Bolus-Type Wireless Sensor

Shozo Arai, L. Mattias Andersson
ABSTRACT The reticuloruminal function is central to digestive efficiency in cattle. Monitoring the rumen condition in cattle is important because a dysfunctional rumen system may cause death. Subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) is a typical disease in cattle, characterized by repeated periods of...
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Reproductive Management by the Continuous Body Temperature Measurement in Cattle: Focusing on the Reproductive Hormonal Change

Miki Sakatani
ABSTRACT Proper reproductive management, breeding and calving is essential for the good farm management. Recently the conception rate of cattle is decreasing. One reason is the weak estrous behavior which makes difficult to breed at the appropriate time. Therefore, the efficient detection system...
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Current Trends and Perspective of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) with Relation to IoT and Data Science Tools

Ilan Halachmi, Harel Levit, Victor Bloch
ABSTRACT The number of animals per a farm worker tends to be larger as animal husbandry is shifting from small-holder family farms to corporate-owned large-scale farms in Japan, Asia-Pacific and Western countries. Emerging technologies are necessary to manage a large number of animas by a small...
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