Advances in Ruminant Feeding and Nutrition in the Digital Era
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 3240
Special Issue Editors
Interests: infrared; NIR; chemometrics; multivariate analysis; discriminant analysis; infrared spectroscopy; linear regression; forage; instruments; principal component analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The digital transformation in agriculture is helping farmers to make better decisions through an increased connection between crop farming, livestock, and manure management. Sustainable feeding requires that the animals' supply of necessary nutrients coexists with maintaining a wide diversity of organisms, including cropping species. The new digital approaches include machines, sensors, models, and data analysis to support sustainable feed management decisions. These will increase the feed efficiency and, consequently, the economic and environmental performances, helping livestock production to become greener. With these premises, advances in ruminant feeding may concern the use of new applications that guarantee more sustainable, automatic, and effortless management of the feeding system.
Dr. Lorenzo Serva
Dr. Luisa Magrin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ruminant production systems
- feeding strategies
- digitalization
- sustainable feeding
- biodiversity
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