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 …

There is an increasing demand for health and welfare monitoring in modern dairy farming.
The development of various innovative techniques aims at improving animal behaviour …

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 …

Handling and stunning at slaughter plants has greatly improved through the use of
numerical scoring. The purpose of this paper is to encourage the use of numerical scoring …

Simple Summary Scoring cattle for lameness based on changes in locomotion or behavior is
essential for farmers to find and treat their lame animals. This review discusses the normal …

Simple Summary As lame cows produce less milk and tendto have other health problems,
finding and treating lame cows is very importantfor farmers. Sensors that measure behaviors …

Lameness assessments are commonly conducted at a single point in time, but such
assessments are subject to multiple sources of error. We conducted a longitudinal study …

Simple Summary Benchmarking is an assessment process that compares an individual
entity to their peer group and the 'best in class'. The goal is to motivate for improvement, eg …

Introduction Lameness is a major welfare challenge facing the dairy industry worldwide.
Monitoring herd lameness prevalence, and early detection and therapeutic intervention are …

The objective of this study was to evaluate the system performance of a 3D vision system for
automatic locomotion monitoring implemented in a commercial dairy farm. Data were …