Precision livestock farming applications (PLF) for grazing animals

C Tzanidakis, O Tzamaloukas, P Simitzis, P Panagakis - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Over the past four decades the dietary needs of the global population have been elevated,
with increased consumption of animal products predominately due to the advancing …

Virtual fencing technology for cattle management in the pasture feeding system—a review

P Goliński, P Sobolewska, B Stefańska, B Golińska - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Maximizing annual pasture consumption without negatively impacting individual cow
performance is of great importance in grass-based dairy and beef systems due to pasture …

[HTML][HTML] Is virtual fencing an effective way of enclosing cattle? Personality, herd behaviour and welfare

MF Aaser, SK Staahltoft, AH Korsgaard… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Virtual fences provide boundaries without physical barriers. Virtual fencing
systems utilise a collar and GPS technology for tracking animals and delivering audio …

[HTML][HTML] Heifers don't care: no evidence of negative impact on animal welfare of growing heifers when using virtual fences compared to physical fences for grazing

D Hamidi, NA Grinnell, M Komainda, F Riesch, J Horn… - animal, 2022 - Elsevier
Virtual fencing (VF) represents a way to simplify traditional pasture management with its high
labour and cost requirements for fencing and to make better use of the 'beneficial'agronomic …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual fencing effectively excludes cattle from burned sagebrush steppe

CS Boyd, R O'Connor, J Ranches, DW Bohnert… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
On public lands grazing allotments in the western US sagebrush steppe, cattle are generally
excluded from burned pastures for 2 yr post fire. If only a portion of a pasture burns, the …

Opportunities to apply precision livestock management on rangelands

DW Bailey, MG Trotter, C Tobin… - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Precision livestock management has become a new field of study as the result of recent
advancements in real-time global positioning system (GPS) tracking, accelerometer and …

[HTML][HTML] Application of Virtual Fencing for the management of Limousin cows at pasture

A Confessore, C Aquilani, L Nannucci, MC Fabbri… - Livestock Science, 2022 - Elsevier
A potential use of pasture-based systems requires an efficient grazing management
strategy. Thanks to the Virtual Fencing (VF) physical fences are replaced by virtual ones …

Current and future approaches to mitigate conflict between humans and Asian elephants: the potential use of aversive geofencing devices

SJ Cabral de Mel, S Seneweera, RK de Mel… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Conflict between humans and Asian elephants is a major conservation
issue. Here we discuss common tools used to manage human-elephant conflict (HEC) in …

A multi-disciplinary approach to assess the welfare impacts of a new virtual fencing technology

C Lee, DLM Campbell - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Virtual fencing involving the application of audio cues and electrical stimuli is being
commercially developed for cattle. Virtual fencing has the potential to improve productivity …

[HTML][HTML] Using virtual fencing to create fuel breaks in the sagebrush steppe

CS Boyd, RC O'Connor, J Ranches, DW Bohnert… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wildfires are increasingly impacting ecosystem processes and ecological services provided
by sagebrush rangelands in the western United States. Mitigating this problem involves …