Identifying best sensor technologies to deliver verifiable health & welfare, environment and processing quality benefits for dairy production.

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Title
Identifying best sensor technologies to deliver verifiable health & welfare, environment and processing quality benefits for dairy production.

CoPED ID
1ba59265-be72-48d9-9482-ebe193a483c0

Status
Active


Value
£344,600

Start Date
Sept. 30, 2020

End Date
Sept. 29, 2022

Description

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Dairy production and processing are key industries for many rural areas in western Britain, converting human inedible feeds into valuable components of healthy varied diets and contributing to the sustainability of rural communities. Dairy production has the lowest carbon footprint of all of the ruminant production systems that can utilise the UK's grasslands for food production and so we focus on improving technical efficiency in dairy production and processing. The project addresses some of the key concerns of consumers and retailers of milk and dairy products, who need to be reassured about the environmental footprint and animal welfare standards of dairy production systems. It will develop new tools to provide consumers, retailers and processors with verifiable information about the environmental footprint and animal welfare standards in dairy production systems. We will use monitoring technologies, including environmental sensors, animal-mounted sensors and camera technologies that are already being used by farmers to manage technical aspects of their systems, such as feeding and fertility. We will avoid prejudging the potential of different technologies and start out by working with any equipment that is already being used commercially, or is about to be commercialised. By relating this information to manually recorded information, using advanced machine learning techniques, we will be able to develop new algorithms to provide indexes of environmental emissions and cow welfare in ways that are both easier, cheaper and more reliable. Our objective is to identify predictors of a few key common indicators for both environment and welfare aspects that can contribute to accepted farm assurance standards and reassure consumers. We will work with progressive dairy farms across the main UK dairying regions to ensure that relationships are robust and to provide a platform for demonstration and extension to other farmers. After BREXIT, the UK may have new opportunities to export or replace imports of high-value dairy products; development of such products is built on a solid foundation of verifiable quality in aspects such as environmental footprint and cow welfare.

SRUC LEAD_ORG
First Milk Limited PARTICIPANT_ORG
Nestle UK Ltd. PARTICIPANT_ORG
Mcqueens Dairies Ltd PARTICIPANT_ORG
University of Strathclyde PARTICIPANT_ORG
SRUC PARTICIPANT_ORG

Subjects by relevance
  1. Milk production
  2. Food production
  3. Sustainable development
  4. Quality
  5. Well-being
  6. Environmental effects
  7. Countryside
  8. Milk (cow's milk)
  9. Dairy products
  10. Milk products
  11. Farms
  12. Dairy industry
  13. Western-style diet
  14. Foodstuffs
  15. Dairy cattle
  16. Industrial communities
  17. Production
  18. Machine learning

Extracted key phrases
  1. Dairy production system
  2. Good sensor technology
  3. Ruminant production system
  4. Animal welfare standard
  5. Value dairy product
  6. Environmental sensor
  7. Progressive dairy farm
  8. Dairy production
  9. Food production
  10. Welfare aspect
  11. Verifiable health
  12. Verifiable quality
  13. Environmental footprint
  14. Camera technology
  15. Monitoring technology

Related Pages

UKRI project entry

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