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New PLF publication by Instituto de Investigación en Señales (Argentina). A pattern recognition approach for detecting and classifying jaw movements in grazing cattle JO Chelotti, SR Vanrell, JR Galli, LL Giovanini… – Computers and Electronics …, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2017.12.013 Highlights ·         An intelligent algorithm for monitoring the livestock grazing behavior is presented. ·         The three basic grazing events are detected and classified from acoustic signals. ·         Several combinations of signal processing and machine learning methods are evaluated. ·         Different adaptive filters are considered in order to remove trends in noisy signals. ·         It achieves an improvement of 10% over existing methods at a low computational cost. Keith Hernandez Jersey

USDA are buy developing Precision Livestock Farming solutions: http://www.agupdate.com/iowafarmertoday/news/livestock/precision-ag-tools-help-livestock-producers/article_cb653ac6-f639-11e7-9c02-cbbddc630574.html Wayne Ellington Womens Jersey

New PLF publication by Teagasc (www.teagasc.ie) The effect of dairy cow breed on milk production, cow traffic and milking characteristics in a pasture-based automatic milking system. J Shortall, C Foley, RD Sleator, B O’Brien – Livestock Science, 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2018.01.002 Highlights ·         No differences observed between breeds for milking frequency or interval. ·         Norwegian Red x HF (NRX) had the shortest return time from pasture. ·         NRX recorded the shortest time waiting in the pre-milking yard. ·         Holstein Friesian (HF) and NRX cows trafficked to the yard in anticipation of the allocation of fresh pasture. ·         AM optimisation may be best achieved by a mixed breed herd rather than a single breed herd. Doug Flutie Jersey