Pre-conference workshop: Acceptable and Practical Precision Livestock Farming

(September 8, 2010)

Registration to the "Acceptable and Practical Precision Livestock Farming" Workshop to be held on 8th September is complimentary. If you wish to participate, please register as soon as possible, since the room has limited seating, by contacting with Workshop's Chair Mr. Heiner Lehr workshops@eafricaconference.org

Session

Presentation

Presenter

Introduction - opening

9:00-9:20

Welcome

 Prof. Alexander Sideridis, President, European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (Greece)
9:20-9:30 Opening Mncane Mthunzi, Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (South Africa)

Session 1 - Setting the scene
9:30-9:50 Introduction to BrightAnimal and precision livestock farming (PLF) Dr Heiner Lehr, Co-ordinator BrightAnimal and Technical Director FoodReg (Spain)

9:50-10:10

Introduction to traceability and good practices

Petter Olsen, Senior Researcher NOFIMA (Norway)

10:10-10:30

Keynote

ZA government official

10:30-11:00 Coffee break 

Session 2 - Practical PLF

11:00-11:20

Monitoring animal health, environment, welfare and behaviour/Identification, Sensory data collection & integrated systems development for PLF

Prof. Eugen Kokin, Estonian University of Life Sciences (Estonia) Prof. Anthony Furness, AIM UK (UK)

11:20-11:40 Ethical & societal implications on PLF/Economic implications on PLF and the need to achieve a balanced view Prof. Thorkild Nielsen, Aalborg University (Denmark) Ólavur Gregersen, Bitland (Faroe Islands)
11:40-12:00 Presentation of Good practice guides Petter Olsen, Senior Researcher NOFIMA (Norway)

12:00-12.40

4 parallel sessions

-          Aquaculture fish

-          Pigs

-          Dairy cattle

-          Egg poultry

Introduction in some detail to the practical guides.

Discussion about focus, value and applicability

12:40-13:00

Report back from parallel sessions

 

13:00-14:30 Lunch and networking 
Session 3 - Traceability and PLF
14:30-15:00

Results from traceability study in BrightAnimal

Presentation of raw data from different countries KW Chang, DVS (Malaysia) Prof. Thomas Banhazi, University of Southern Queensland (Australia) Dr Heiner Lehr, FoodReg (Spain)

15:00-15:20

Proposal for traceability model for PLF

Dr Heiner Lehr, FoodReg (Spain)

15:20-15:40 Coffee break
Session 4 - Roundtable

15:40-16:30

Open discussion

Chair: Gwynne Foster, CGCSA


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