Date: Friday, March 29th
Time: 12:00 – 12:30 PM
Join Zoom Meeting (Meeting ID: 956 5162 5142; Passcode: 864324)
Speaker: Beshoy Morkos
Title: “Bringing Industry 4.0 to Agriculture – A study of Pecan Cracking and Shelling Processes“
Poultry locomotion is an important indicator of animal health, welfare, and productivity. Traditional methodologies such as manual observation or the use of wearable devices, encounter significant challenges, including potential stress induction and behavioral alteration in animals. For instance, locomotion speed can be used to predict poultry gait score (an indicator of animal walking status) or […]
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The UGA Poultry Science Department and Extension team will host the 2024 Georgia Precision Poultry Farming Conference virtually on May 1.
The event is free for students and the conference will be recorded for sharing with registered participants.
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This year’s conference will be the fourth annual Georgia Precision Poultry Farming Conference. Our past three conferences […]
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It’s not hard to miss large fertilizer spreaders on the roads or in the fields at this time of the year which means the current crop season is officially here, and that the lime and fertilizer applications will be in full swing from now until planting. These large self-propelled spinner-spreaders have become more common over […]
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Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2024 IIPA Seed Grants:
Title: SSIF: A Deep Generative Model for Remote Sensing Image Spatial-Spectral Super-Resolution for Precision Agriculture
PI: Gengchen Mai, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Athens Campus
Title: Harnessing Deep Learning Algorithms for Ultrasound Image Analysis to Support Reproductive Management Decisions in Cattle
PI: Todd Callaway, Associate Professor, Department of Animal & Dairy Science, Athens Campus
Title: EggPicker: A mobile robotic system for identifying, localizing, and collecting floor eggs in cage-free hen housing environments
PI: Guoming Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Poultry Science, Athens Campus
Title: Enhancing Efficacy of Ornamental Crop Production: Application of Advanced Technologies for Automating Nursery Production Operations to Improve Labor Use Efficiency
PI: Md Sultan Mahmud, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Athens Campus
Title: PRECISIONDETECT (PD): AI-Enhanced Hyperspectral Imaging for Early Chicken Egg Fertility Detection
PI: Christopher Kucha, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science & Technology, Athens Campus
Title: Revolutionizing Agriculture with Data-Driven Solutions: Exploring Microbiome Function and Modulation in Animals through Machine Learning
PI: Aditya Mishra, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Athens Campus
Title: Prediction model for breeding peanuts with desired roasted flavor
PI: Joonhyuk Suh, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science & Technology, Athens Campus
Date: Tuesday, January 30th
Time: 12:00 – 12:30 PM
Join Zoom Meeting (Meeting ID: Meeting ID: 942 1051 5640; Passcode: 375080)
Speaker:
Title: “Unveiling the Potential of GNSS Transmissometry (GNSS-T) for Remote Sensing of Forest Canopy Water Content: Challenges and Pathways to ‘Radio Realistic’ Forest Scene Generation”
Broiler body weight monitoring is critical for evaluating the growth and performance of a flock. The obtained bodyweight and uniformity of the flock are indicators of daily growth rate, feed-to-meat conversion ratio, health conditions, and marketing day prediction. The traditional protocol is to manually sample and weigh a certain ratio of a flock one by […]
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Date: Friday, December 8th
Time: 2:00 – 2:50 PM
Join Zoom Meeting (Meeting ID: 917 3524 6945)
Speakers:
Introduction For commercial broiler production, about 20,000 – 30,000 birds are raised in each confined house, which has caused growing public concerns on animal welfare. Currently, daily evaluation of broiler wellbeing and growth is conducted manually, which is labor intensive and subjective to human errors. Therefore, there is a need for an automatic tool to […]
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Robotics and Visual Sensemaking in Agriculture: Perspectives and Future Directions
Dr. Joshua Peschel, Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University
Friday, October 27
Room 319, Building 1013 (Old Poultry Science Building – 110 Cedar Street)
12:00 pm
About the Speaker:
Dr. Joshua Peschel is an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University; he also holds courtesy appointments in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Peschel conducts research in cyber-agricultural systems where he and his students create new technologies, data sets, and computational models for automated visual sensing and sensemaking. His expertise includes cyber-agricultural systems, visual data sensing and analytics, and robot-assisted measurement. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Defense and Energy, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and several commodity groups and private industry partners.
