Season 1 Episode 3: Management systems for precision feeding

During the Feed-a-Gene stakeholder meeting held at the EAAP annual meeting in Tallinn (August 2017), a series of 10 interviews of researchers associated with the project was filmed. In this third episode, Ludovic Brossard presents the approach of Feed-a-Gene's fourth Work Package. In episodes 4-9 (to be released in the following weeks), work package leaders and researchers will present the other Work Packages and the results obtained so far. In the season finale, Jaap van Milgen will talk about the importance of stakeholders and about their feedback and input on the project.

Feed-a-Gene's WP4: Management systems for precision feeding to increase resilience to fluctuating environments and improve feed efficiency
Task 1: Development of decision support tools for the real-time determination of animal nutritional requirements (composition and amount) and improvement of performance
Task 2: Development of a controlling module (software and hardware) to support feeder control tasks and real-time measurements
Task 3: Development of precision feeder devices
Task 4: Build and validate precision feeding system prototypes
Task 5: Demonstration activities