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Digital and precision livestock farming (PLF) technologies: gaps between sheep and goat farmers’ needs and existing solutions
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Session 14- Théâtre 9. International audience. Sm@RT is an EU Horizon 2020 funded project, involving Estonia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Norwayand UK, to encourage uptake of digital and PLF technologies by sheep and goat farmers. In a series of nationaland international workshops in the 8 countries, 166 different needs and challenges regarding technology use wereidentified by sheep and goat farmers. Sixty potential solutions were collated by the project partners, with somesolutions addressing more than one need and production type (meat sheep, dairy sheep and dairy goats). In total,18 needs were not addressed as follows: 3 for reproduction, 4 for health/welfare, 3 for herd monitoring, 2 for feeding/grazing, 4 for milking, and 2 for fattening. During a final international workshop, additional solutions wereidentified by over 80 stakeholders to address those gaps although not all were available on the market or directlyadapted. Only two gaps relating to milking were not addressed. Between existing technologies and upcomingprototypes, most sheep and goats farmers’ needs for technology use on farms can be answered. However, barriersto uptake and cost-benefit analysis, amongst others, should also be considered.
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