Rethinking Animal Production through Precision Livestock Farming
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal System and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 10261
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last decade, engineering advances and decreasing costs of the new electronic technologies have allowed the development of many sensor-based solutions for the livestock industry. These sensors are able to collect data automatically and in real time, enabling the early detection of specific problems. This technological approach is currently known as precision livestock farming (PLF) which consists of ‘measuring variables, modelling the data to select information, and then using these models in real-time for monitoring and controlling the animals’. There is general agreement that PLF systems are an opportunity to improve the profitability and sustainability of livestock farms.
This technology has tried to adapt to existing farming systems which attempt to improve the ability to intervene. However, it is necessary to record a dramatic change in the approach of the animal supply chain caused by the climate emergency and the ecological transition that is happening very rapidly simultaneously with the pandemic emergency. This new perspective changes the needs and demands in the animal supply chain, with further effort in the fields of environmental sustainability, animal welfare, and consumer acceptance.
Original manuscripts that address developments of this new perspective bring out new problems or themes and propose new solutions in the application of the PLF in the animal supply chain are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Mario Baratta
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- PLF
- animal welfare
- sustainability
- consumer acceptance
- biosensors
- ecological transition
- carbon footprint
- food safety
- food quality
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