Since the 1980s, efforts have been made to develop sensors that measure a parameter from
an individual cow. The development started with individual cow recognition and was …

Lameness is one of the most costly dairy cow diseases, yet adoption of lameness prevention
strategies remains low. Low lameness prevention adoption might be attributable to a lack of …

ABSTRACT A farm-level stochastic model was used to estimate costs of 7 common clinical
diseases in the United States: mastitis, lameness, metritis, retained placenta, left-displaced …

Dairy cows are high value farm animals requiring careful management to achieve the best
results. Since the advent of robotic and high throughput milking, the traditional few minutes …

The technical performance of activity meters for automated detection of estrus in dairy
farming has been studied, and such meters are already used in practice. However …

ABSTRACT A farm-level stochastic simulation model was modified to estimate the cost per
case of 3 foot disorders (digital dermatitis, sole ulcer, and white line disease) by parity group …

Background The economic viability of hydrodeoxygenation process using Camelina,
Carinata and Jatropha feedstocks for aviation biofuel production was evaluated for two …

Antimicrobials are used in animal agriculture to cure bacterial infectious diseases. However,
antimicrobial use (AMU) inevitably leads to the selection of resistant bacteria, potentially …

The objective of this review paper is to describe the development and application of a suite
of more than 40 computerized dairy farm decision support tools contained at the University …

Purpose–Automated body condition scoring (BCS) through extraction of information from
digital images has been demonstrated to be feasible; and commercial technologies are …