Consumption of animal products such as meat, milk, and eggs in first-world countries has
leveled off, but it is rising precipitously in develo** countries. Agriculture will have to …

There has been an increasing demand for animal protein due to several factors such as
global population growth, rising incomes, etc. However, farming productivity is stagnating …

Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing, and Digital Image Analysis can be viewed as an
amalgam of terms that very often are used to describe similar processes. Most of this …

Livestock production to provide food for a growing world population, with increasing demand
for meat and milk products, has led to a rapid growth in the scale of cattle and pig …

Simple Summary The welfare of farm animals is a growing concern in the EU and across the
world. In milk production, there is a strong need to assess the welfare of dairy cows. One of …

Simple Summary Machine learning (ML) offers new approaches for analyzing data and is
particularly interesting for large datasets. Dairy farmers implement a wide range of sensors …

This scientific opinion focuses on the welfare of pigs on farm, and is based on literature and
expert opinion. All pig categories were assessed: gilts and dry sows, farrowing and lactating …

Attention has shifted to the development of villages in Europe and other parts of the world
with the goal of combating rural–urban migration, and moving toward self-sufficiency in rural …

Body condition scoring (BCS) is a farm-management tool for estimating dairy cows' energy
reserves. Today, BCS is performed manually by experts. This paper presents a 3 …

Abstract BCS (“Body Condition Score”) is a method used to estimate body fat reserves and
accumulated energy balance of cows. BCS heavily influences milk production, reproduction …