Tijdens ons jaarlijks event HAS Expo hebben wij in 2020 de HAS Talkshow geïntroduceerd. Tijdens de HAS Talkshow 2020 praten 3 lectoren van HAS Hogeschool je in deze interactieve talkshow bij over de impact van Covid-19 op de sector agrofood en leefomgeving. De presentatie is in handen van alumna Froukje …

Lector Precision Livestock Farming, Lenny van Erp, neemt je in deze rondleiding mee langs een aantal onderzoeken die het lectoraat in studiejaar 2019/2020 heeft uitgevoerd met onze afstuderende studenten. Je wandelt digitaal langs onder meer de onderzoekslijnen melkvee, pluimvee, varkens en gezelschapsdieren …

Animal welfare is a multidimensional phenomenon and currently its on-farm assessment requires complex, multidimensional frameworks involving farm audits which are time-consuming, infrequent and expensive. The core principle of precision agriculture is to use sensor technologies to improve the efficiency …

Cows housed indoors with cubicles are probably more restricted in their choice of lying posture and orientation compared with cows housed on pasture. We therefore studied lying postures on pasture in Uruguay and the Netherlands, and in cubicles in the Netherlands, also recording orientation on pasture …

When the daily routine of a cow is disturbed, it may have a detrimental effect on the performance of activity meters to detect estrus. It is possible that during the pasture period, the daily routine of cows is disturbed, adversely affecting the performance of activity meters to detect estrus which does …

Inaugurele rede als Lector Precision Livestock Farming bij HAS hogeschool op 14 oktober 2016. PLF, in het Nederlands Precisielandbouw in de veehouderij, maakt gebruik van technologieën om diergedrag, diergezondheid, productie en milieubelasting continu te monitoren.

Inaugural lecture as Lector Precision Livestock Farming at HAS University of Applied Sciences on October 14, 2016. PLF, Precision Livestock Farming, uses technologies to continuously monitor animal behaviour, animal health, production and environmental impact.

Good reproduction is key for successful dairyfarming. Detection of estrus is the first step in getting acow pregnant. Visual detection of estrus is a challengingjob, to aid the farmer, estrus detection tools (EDT), suchas pedometers, neck mounted collars to measure activityand pressure sensing devices …

In this study, we recorded sound and behaviour from dairy cows by audio and video recordings. Four cameras and microphones were placed in a modern dairy farm in Herwijnen, The Netherlands. Three cameras and microphones recorded dairy cows, one camera and microphone recorded heifers between four and ten …