Application of Precision Farming in Pig Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Precision livestock farming tools are crucial for enhancing efficiency in animal production systems while ensuring compliance with animal welfare requirements. In pig farming, precision livestock farming tools can be applied for disease detection, monitoring animal behavior, efficient feed control, and assessing the animals' productive performance. Sensors and technological tools such as cameras, microphones, accelerometers, and other sensors can be used to collect individual data on pigs and to characterize the rearing environment.

This Special Issue aims to bring together the latest findings concerning the analysis of data collected by these sensors and the presentation of insights for early disease detection, optimized feeding, improved environmental control, and automated systems. Original research papers, as well as literature reviews from different research areas, such as automated systems, precision technologies, animal health, animal welfare, and animal behavior with a link to precision livestock farming for pigs, are invited to this Special Issue. Additional topics and interdisciplinary studies regarding the environmental, economic, and social impacts of precision livestock farming technologies applied to pigs will also be considered.

Prof. Dr. Sheila Tavares Nascimento
Guest Editor

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