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 …

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 …

Timely lameness detection is one of the major and costliest health problems in dairy cattle
that farmers and practitioners haven't yet solved adequately. The primary reason behind this …

Welfare assessment has traditionally been performed by direct observation by humans,
providing information at only selected points in time. Recently, this assessment method has …

Simple Summary The welfare of farm animals is a growing concern in the EU and across the
world. In milk production, there is a strong need to assess the welfare of dairy cows. One of …

Locomotion scoring is time consuming and is not commonly completed on farms. Farmers
also underestimate their herds' lameness prevalence, a knowledge gap that impedes …

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 …

Animal activity recognition is an important topic that facilitates understanding of animal
behavior that is useful for analyzing and classifying their wellbeing. Research studies have …

On-farm scoring of behavioural indicators of animal welfare is challenging but the increasing
availability of low cost technology now makes automated monitoring of animal behaviour …

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