Simple Summary The preeminent purpose of precision livestock farming (PLF) is to provide
affordable and straightforward solutions to severe problems with certainty. Some data …

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 …

Surveillance and analysis of behavior can be used to detect and characterize health
disruption and welfare status in animals. The accurate identification of changes in behavior …

Pork accounts for an important proportion of livestock products. For pig farming, a lot of
manpower, material resources and time are required to monitor pig health and welfare. As …

Precision livestock farming (PLF) technology development has proliferated recently, but on-
farm adoption has lagged. Understanding PLF stakeholders' views, practical applications …

Simple Summary The increasing implementation of technological advances originally
developed for video gaming (PlayStation, Xbox) is helping to progress livestock production …

Animal behavior can be an indicator of animal productivity and well-being, and thus an
indicator of how animals respond to changes in their biophysical environment. This study …

Automated body weight (BW) estimation can be a useful tool for continuous monitoring of
growth in commercial pigs, whereas deviations could indicate welfare problems. We …

Economic pressures continue to mount on modern-day livestock farmers, forcing them to
increase herds sizes in order to be commercially viable. The natural consequence of this is …

Precision livestock farming has become an important research focus with the rising demand
of meat production in the swine industry. Currently, the farming practice is widely conducted …