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 …
Date: Friday, December 8th Time: 2:00 – 2:50 PM Join Zoom Meeting (Meeting ID: 917 3524 6945) Speakers: Alicia Peduzzi Title: “Smart Forest Harvesting Operations: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Management and Logistics” Seminar Time: 2:00 – 2:25 PM Haijian Sun Title: “A Precision Tracking and Tracing System in Food …
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 …
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 Or connect via Zoom About the Speaker: Dr. Joshua Peschel is an Associate Professor of Agricultural and …
Losses during peanut harvest are common and can be caused by improper setup, operation and/or performance of the harvest equipment. Some losses can also be attributed to the field and crop conditions at harvest. Excessive losses can significantly reduce peanut yields and profits if not managed or reduced during harvest. While harvest losses cannot be …
The Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture (IIPA) held its Fall Networking event “An IPA with IIPA” on Thursday, September 21. Seventeen faculty members attended, along with two staff members. The event focused on welcoming the Institute’s newest members, while bidding a fond farewell to co-interim director, Jaime Camelio, and recognizing all of his hard work …
The IIPA is now soliciting applications for the FY2024 Integrative Precision Agriculture Pre-Seed Grant Program. The IIPA Pre-Seed Program provides early-stage developmental funding ($5,000/team) to facilitate the formation of faculty teams and collaboration around critical areas of research expertise or emerging research topics in the broad area of integrative precision agriculture (IPA). The goal of …
With increased availability and interest in spray drones recently, we are starting to see more people getting into the spray drone application business as well as growers who are interested to learn more about the technology and its application capabilities. The wet weather during months of May and June across much of the southeastern US …
Liquid applicators are commonly used to apply different fertilizer solutions and similar to the sprayers, they need to be calibrated properly to apply the desired application rate in gallons per acre (GPA). While the calibration process for liquid fertilizer applicators is similar to the sprayers, the actual rate for the fertilizer can vary greatly from …
