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Zeyu Lu, Lingtian Zhang, Qing Mu, Junyang Liu, Yu Chen, Haoyuan Wang, Yanjun Zhang, Rui Su, Ruijun Wang, Zhiying Wang, Qi Lv, Zhihong Liu, Jiasen Liu, Yunhua Li and Yanhong Zhao
Due to recent innovations in gene editing technology, great progress has been made in livestock breeding, with researchers rearing gene-edited pigs, cattle, sheep, and other livestock. Gene-editing technology involves knocking in, knocking out, deleting,...
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Weihong Ma, Xiangyu Qi, Yi Sun, Ronghua Gao, Luyu Ding, Rong Wang, Cheng Peng, Jun Zhang, Jianwei Wu, Zhankang Xu, Mingyu Li, Hongyan Zhao, Shudong Huang and Qifeng Li
Acquiring phenotypic data from livestock constitutes a crucial yet cumbersome phase in the breeding process. Traditionally, obtaining livestock phenotypic data primarily involves manual, on-body measurement methods. This approach not only requires extens...
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Roberto Besteiro, Tamara Arango, Manuel R. Rodríguez and María D. Fernández
This study characterizes the growth of weaned Large White × Landrace hybrid piglets from 6 to 20 kg live body weight (BW) under real farm conditions. Batches of 50 castrated male pigs and 50 gilts were weighed repeatedly over two 6-week breeding cycles. ...
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Gerardo José Ginovart-Panisello, Ignasi Iriondo, Tesa Panisello Monjo, Silvia Riva, Jordi Casadó Cancer and Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès
Acoustic studies on poultry show that chicken vocalizations can be a real-time indicator of the health conditions of the birds and can improve animal welfare and farm management. In this study, hens vaccinated against infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) w...
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Anastasios Michailidis, Chrysanthi Charatsari, Thomas Bournaris, Efstratios Loizou, Aikaterini Paltaki, Dimitra Lazaridou and Evagelos D. Lioutas
The penetration of precision agriculture technologies in agrifood systems generates the need for efficient upskilling programs targeted at farmers and other actors. A critical first step in this direction is to uncover the training needs of the actors in...
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Carlos Alejandro Perez Garcia, Marco Bovo, Daniele Torreggiani, Patrizia Tassinari and Stefano Benni
The escalating global population and climate change necessitate sustainable livestock production methods to meet rising food demand. Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) integrates information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve farming efficien...
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Shadi Atalla, Saed Tarapiah, Amjad Gawanmeh, Mohammad Daradkeh, Husameldin Mukhtar, Yassine Himeur, Wathiq Mansoor, Kamarul Faizal Bin Hashim and Motaz Daadoo
The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to revolutionize agriculture by providing real-time data on crop and livestock conditions. This study aims to evaluate the performance scalability of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in agriculture, specifica...
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Piotr Golinski, Patrycja Sobolewska, Barbara Stefanska and Barbara Golinska
Maximizing annual pasture consumption without negatively impacting individual cow performance is of great importance in grass-based dairy and beef systems due to pasture being the most cost-effective nutrient source. However, the disadvantages of convent...
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Munir Ahmad, Sagheer Abbas, Areej Fatima, Ghassan F. Issa, Taher M. Ghazal and Muhammad Adnan Khan
The importance of accurate livestock identification for the success of modern livestock industries cannot be overstated as it is essential for a variety of purposes, including the traceability of animals for food safety, disease control, the prevention o...
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Xiaowu Li, Kun Sun, Hongbo Fan and Zihan He
Accurate cattle pose estimation is essential for Precision Livestock Farming (PLF). Computer vision-based, non-contact cattle pose estimation technology can be applied for behaviour recognition and lameness detection. Existing methods still face challeng...
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