Federal State

North Rhine-Westfalia

Project Title

Detection of new animal health indices based on automated carcass survey and integration of agricultural production characteristics

Project description

Optimal animal health in pig fattening is a prerequisite for sustainable, resource-saving meat production. Carcass findings and operational production indicators (daily increases, fattening days, veterinary costs, therapy index, etc.) serve as objective indicators of pig health. The more automated this data is collected, evaluated and available to the farmer as a decision-making aid, the more effective and faster can also be traded in the sense of a preventive animal health and animal welfare management.
By means of digitally supported findings data acquisition and intelligent algorithms (artificial intelligence (AI)) for the determination of meaningful indices, which are fed into an information system as needed, the decision-making processes of the farmers can be competently and purposefully supported.
The focus of this project is a highly automated, objective data collection in the slaughtering process and their intelligent linkage with information of the animal husbandry locations as well as a high usability of the information systems in the sense of a meaningful, highly available management aid. Thus, the involved partners in the production chain are able to me

Final report

Results and the Final report will be found here, as soon as the project is completed.

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

499,899

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NUTS3 CODE

DEA5C