Precision Livestock Farming : Suppliers e-course

Livestock farming is facing tremendous challenges today:

• Increasing production: over the next 15 years, global demand for meat is expected to increase by 40% triggered by a growing number of people adopting protein-richer diets. According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), technology solutions in agricultural and livestock production systems will play a key role to address this challenge and ensure an adequate food supply for an expected population of 9.7 billion by 2050

• Promoting sustainability & animal welfare: with increasing production it becomes important to find ways to minimize the environmental footprint of livestock farming and ensure high levels of animal welfare, health and efficiency of production.

• Alleviating farmers' workload and ensuring economic viability of farm operations: it will be important find solutions that will enable farmers to manage large number of animals in an adequate and profitable manner but at the same time be available for an individual animal that needs attention.

Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) systems aim to offer solutions to all of the above challenges.