Chapter 5: RUMIA platform: a success story of PLF to optimize management of dairy goat farms

A. Belanche; J. Fernández-Álvarez; D.R. Yáñez-Ruiz

Chapter 5: RUMIA platform: a success story of PLF to optimize management of dairy goat farms

In: Practical Precision Livestock Farming

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A. Belanche

A. Belanche Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), Profesor Albareda 1, 18008, Granada, Spain.
Departamento de Producción Animal y Ciencia de los Alimentos, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón (IA2), Universidad de Zaragoza-CITA, Miguel Servet 177, 50013 Zaragoza, Spain.

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J. Fernández-Álvarez

J. Fernández-Álvarez Caprigran, Cortijo Peinado, 18340, Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain.

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D.R. Yáñez-Ruiz

D.R. Yáñez-Ruiz Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), Profesor Albareda 1, 18008, Granada, Spain.

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The recent advances in the intensive dairy goat production systems such as the electronic individual identification, milking mechanization and genetic evaluation open the possibility of implementing smart-farming principles based on the use of PLF-concepts. This chapter describes a successful story about the development and implementation of the RUMIA platform to optimize farm management in dairy goat farms. This platform is based on the systematic collection of individual animal data followed by a further data processing and feedback that can aid farmers during the daily decision-making process. The platform has been proven to allow better monitoring of the phenotype (e.g. milk yield and composition), genotype, health, filiation and reproductive performance of individual animals. This information is key to promote a sustainable intensification based on optimized reproductive, selection and culling off programs. As a result, the implementation of the RUMIA platform into dairy goat systems has contributed to: (1) minimize unproductive periods; (2) customizing lactation length; (3) increasing milk yield and genetic progress; (4) optimizing the culling off strategy; (5) decreasing production seasonality; and (6) improving farm sustainability. Moreover, new elements related with technical-economic data and sustainability indicators are being incorporated in recent years in order to move from an animal-management tool into an integral farm-management platform. The pros and cons of this PLF platform and the potential limitations for the adoption of this technology are also discussed in this chapter.

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Practical Precision Livestock Farming

Hands-on experiences with PLF technologies in commercial and R&D settings

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