The increasing demand for sustainable livestock products also demands new
considerations in animal breeding. Breeding programs are now seeking to integrate animal …

In order to base welfare assessment of dairy cattle on real-time measurement, integration of
valid and reliable precision livestock farming (PLF) technologies is needed. The aim of this …

Background Food safety has garnered much worldwide attention recently for reasons that
are, unfortunately, not always positive. Traceability system (TS) is designed to assure safe …

The identification of individual dairy cows is an important prerequisite for dairy cow
behaviour analysis and disease detection. Computer vision-based cow recognition is a …

Highlights•Top head image is used as Region of Interest for dairy cow individual
identification.•Dairy cows are classified in the feeder zone as standing or feeding.•Cow is …

Abstract Precision Livestock Farming relies on several technological approaches to acquire
in the most efficient way precise and up-to-date data concerning individual animals. In dairy …

Simple Summary As the importance of farming continues to grow, innovative technology and
sensors play an increasingly important role. Automation and robots in agriculture have the …

Holstein-Friesian cattle exhibit individually-characteristic black and white coat patterns
visually akin to those arising from Turing's reaction-diffusion systems. This work takes …

Body condition score (BCS) is a common tool for indirectly estimating the mobilization of
energy reserves in the fat and muscle of cattle that meets the requirements of animal welfare …

Increased biosecurity and food safety requirements may increase demand for efficient
traceability and identification systems of livestock in the supply chain. The advanced …