Abstract Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) is spreading worldwide for its applications on
livestock farms, in both intensive and extensive systems. PLF has started being adopted only …

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

In precision livestock farming, computer vision based approaches have been widely used to
obtain individual cattle health and welfare information such as body condition score, live …

Large-scale phenotyping of animal behaviour traits is time consuming and has led to
increased demand for technologies that can automate these procedures. Automated …

Remote monitoring, modern data collection through sensors, rapid data transfer, and vast
data storage through the Internet of Things (IoT) have advanced precision livestock farming …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In this study, two different computer vision techniques to automatically measure the back
posture in dairy cows were tested and evaluated. A two-dimensional and a three …

Highlights•Three regression models used with four consecutive measurements of 186
cows.•Independent cow-observation analysis resulted in 53.0% correct classification.•Binary …