Advances in Intelligent Animal Husbandry Engineering Technology
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 654
Editors
Interests: artificial intelligence; machine learning; precision livestock farming; sensor-based animal health monitoring; food quality analytics; poultry processing; small-ruminant health; digital agriculture; bioimpedance and RF sensing; explainable AI
Interests: small-ruminant health; animal science; parasite control; integrated livestock systems; sustainable animal production; precision livestock management; animal welfare; forage-based livestock systems; disease monitoring; smart animal husbandry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence, automation, sensing, robotics, and digital decision-support are transforming animal husbandry from labor-intensive to intelligent, data-driven production. Livestock face increasing pressure to improve productivity, welfare, disease prevention, environmental sustainability, labor efficiency, and traceability while adapting to climate stress, resource limits, and rising demand for safe animal-source foods. Intelligent engineering technologies offer an opportunity to integrate real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, precision feeding, automated housing, behavior recognition, early disease detection, reproductive management, and farm-level decision support.
This Special Issue aims to present recent advances in intelligent animal husbandry technology, emphasizing AI-enabled sensing, automation, smart livestock facilities, precision health monitoring, and engineering solutions for sustainable animal production. We welcome original research articles, reviews, methods papers, case studies, and system-development studies addressing intelligent technologies for animal production, health, welfare, behavior, reproduction, housing, feeding, and farm management.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning for health, welfare, behavior, and productivity monitoring;
- Sensor-based systems, including wearable, RFID, imaging, thermal, acoustic, bioelectrical, and environmental sensors;
- Precision livestock farming, digital twins, decision-support, and farm management analytics;
- Robotics, automation, intelligent feeding, milking, housing, ventilation, and manure management;
- Computer vision and deep learning for behavior, disease detection, body condition, and welfare assessment;
- Smart disease surveillance, early-warning systems, biosecurity technologies, and antimicrobial-stewardship tools;
- Multimodal data fusion, explainable AI, edge computing, IoT, and cloud-based monitoring platforms;
- Technologies for sustainable animal production, climate resilience, and resource-use efficiency.
Dr. Aftab Siddique
Prof. Dr. Thomas Terrill
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intelligent animal husbandry
- precision livestock farming
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- sensor technology
- animal health monitoring
- animal welfare engineering
- automation
- digital agriculture
- decision-support systems
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