Using data to manage environmental impact of livestock farming

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Publication date	Monday, 16 May, 2022
Keywords	animal husbandry environmentally friendly farming beef cattle goat sheep decision support system (DSS) precision farming sensor

A digital application has been developed in France which uses specific data collected on-farm to provide cattle, goat and sheep farmers recommendations to reduce environmental impact. Benoît Gavaland, beef farmer is enthusiastic about using the application: “Environmentally friendly and economically viable animal husbandry techniques go hand in hand, by contributing to environmental protection, we also improve the economics of animal husbandry.”

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