IMPLEMENTING ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE AS A PART OF PRECISION DAIRY FARMING FOR ENABLING SUSTAINABLE DAIRY FARMING

Viktor Radun; Dragan Dokić; Vesna Gantner

doi:10.5937/ekoPolj2104869R

Authors

Viktor Radun Belgrade Metropolitan University, Faculty of Applied Ecology, Belgrade https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5392-6665
Dragan Dokić Erdut Municipality, Croatia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6321-0716
Vesna Gantner Faculty of Agro-biotechnology, Osijek https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1962-3131

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5937/ekoPolj2104869R

Keywords:

artificial intelligence (AI), precision agriculture, precision dairy farming, sustainable dairy farm, animal production, ammonium pollution

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to consider implementation of Artificial Intelligence as a part of Precision Dairy Farming, as a way of processing, analysing and managing Big data, in order to enable sustainable dairy cattle farm. Increasing the volume of livestock production in the future and measuring the level of environmental impact becomes one of the most pressing concerns. The aim is to evaluate the impact of animal’s production level on the ammonium pollution from dairy cattle farm using precision dairy farming technologies. The results indicate significant variability in estimated ammonium pollution from dairy cattle farms due to the animal’s production indicating positive correlation between daily milk production and ammonium pollution. The test day records, as Artificial Intelligence application in precision dairy farming could be used both for assessing the ammonium pollution from farms and timely prevention and correction of inadequate management towards sustainable dairy production systems.

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