Farms.com Home   News

Cameras: another option for pork producers’ technology tool kits

Cameras are all around us. Phones, iPads, computers, Ring doorbells, all have become a part of our everyday lives and it’s difficult to imagine life without them. One Iowa State University faculty member is looking at how cameras in hog barns can help producers recognize sickness and behavior changes.

Joshua Peschel, associate professor in agricultural and biosystems engineering, is conducting research on cyber-agricultural systems that could assist farmers. He said consistent, reliable, accurate, and cost-effective health and behavior understanding of pigs is one of the biggest challenges faced by the swine industry today.

“My research emerges from the critical need for new and innovative tools that expand precision livestock farming for production-scale swine operations,” he said. “My students and I create new technologies, data sets, and computational models for sensing and sensemaking. In other words, we come up with new data sets, using only video, to better manage pigs.”

Click here to see more...

Trending Video

BUILDING A NEW SHEEP BARN?? ~ our current sheep barn design (the good, the bad & would we do AGAIN?)

Video: BUILDING A NEW SHEEP BARN?? ~ our current sheep barn design (the good, the bad & would we do AGAIN?)

A highly requested UPDATE on our SHEEP BARN... Why we went with this design. Dimensions of barn and penning. Ventilation and handling system. AND... what would I do different?? Also in this vlog, we are still battling winter getting some lambs weighed and shipped. Mark's busy with finishing trim and floor in the new shop. I'm back in the warehouse up to more fun with making some wool dryer balls out of some waste wool!