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Real-time control of pig growth through an integrated management system (IMS)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

D. M. Green ,
D. J. Parsons ,
C. P. Schofield  and
C. T. Whittemore
D. M. Green*
Affiliation:
The University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences, Agriculture Building, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK
D. J. Parsons
Affiliation:
BBSRC Silsoe Research Institute, Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedford MK45 4HS, UK
C. P. Schofield
Affiliation:
BBSRC Silsoe Research Institute, Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedford MK45 4HS, UK
C. T. Whittemore
Affiliation:
The University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences, Agriculture Building, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK
*
E-mail: darren.green@.ed.ac.uk
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Integrated management systems (IMS) for pigs offer the prospects of optimising meat production and minimising nitrogenous pollution through closed-loop control of pig growth by nutritional control (Whittemore, et al., 2001). Such an IMS requires a real-time sensor system, a nutritional model which is optimised in response to data collected in by the sensor system, and a control system which uses forward predictions of the model to predict the nutritional regime required to satisfy growth and pollution targets. An experiment was carried out to determine the accuracy to which a novel IMS system can direct pig weight gain and fatness towards preset targets through nutritional control.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2004 , 2004 , pp. 21
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2004

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