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Designing precision livestock farming to support a future of sustainable pig production
Posted in: Pork Insight Articles, Production by admin on May 9, 2017
A key question now is how farmers can can manage their ever growing production systems to achieve high quality, sustainable and safe meat production that can meet this demand. Recent studies have indicated that achieving scale dependent benefits in agriculture requires new production technologies. A key challenge facing farmers is how monitoring the health and well being of the animals changes with increasing farm size. Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) is a modern approach to farm livestock production using technologies for automatic monitoring and control of processes typically done manually in the past. Continuous, fully automated monitoring and improvement of animal health, welfare, productivity and the environmental impact become a reality by applying this technology.
Designing precision livestock farming to support a future of sustainable pig production