Adoption of automated livestock production systems in Northern Europe

TY - GEN

T1 - Adoption of automated livestock production systems in Northern Europe

AU - Pedersen, Søren Marcus

AU - Lind, Kim Martin Hjorth

N1 - Conference code: 16

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - In the last decades the development of automated systems in livestock production has gained increasing interest among farmers. A combined use of computers and sensor systems has lead the development into new research areas with automated milking systems, grain drying systems and automated feeding systems. The aim of this paper is to present the results of a farm survey and cluster analysis that have been made among 4 countries in Europe. This study is based on replies from 413 respondents in Germany (eastern part), Greece, Finland and Denmark, respectively, and the study comments on the relationship and adoption patterns among these countries. The paper presents the results of the surveyed population, demography, farm structure with livestock production characteristics and farmers use of selected automated systems in livestock production.

AB - In the last decades the development of automated systems in livestock production has gained increasing interest among farmers. A combined use of computers and sensor systems has lead the development into new research areas with automated milking systems, grain drying systems and automated feeding systems. The aim of this paper is to present the results of a farm survey and cluster analysis that have been made among 4 countries in Europe. This study is based on replies from 413 respondents in Germany (eastern part), Greece, Finland and Denmark, respectively, and the study comments on the relationship and adoption patterns among these countries. The paper presents the results of the surveyed population, demography, farm structure with livestock production characteristics and farmers use of selected automated systems in livestock production.

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-602-8475-87-7

SP - 1106

EP - 1109

BT - Sustainable livestock production in the perspective of food security, policy, genetic resources and climate change

A2 - Subandriyo et al, null

PB - Indonesian Society of Animal Sciences

T2 - The AAAP Animal Science Congress 2014

Y2 - 10 November 2014 through 14 November 2014

ER -