ClearFarm

Animal welfare has become a fundamental aspect of livestock production. The current tools of animal well-being evaluation are based on punctual registry and the complicated integration of different indicators with different units. Not only that, but the common tools for animal welfare are costly and time-consuming. Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) allows the monitoring and optimisation of agricultural processes. PLF systems generate great volumes of data for farms that can be used for monitoring the well-being of pig and dairy cattle.

ClearFarm wants to use PLF technology to integrate data based on animals through a blockchain focus, thus allowing an improvement of animal welfare within the production chain. This will contribute to improving the sustainable production of pig and dairy cattle, the two livestock production systems with the largest quotas in Europe.

Participants

The project is coordinated by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and has the participation of the Universidad de Murcia, ELPOZO Alimentación S.A and the Cooperativa Ganadera del Valle de los Pedroches (from Spain), Syntesa Partners and Associates A/S, Skov As Glyngore – Dol Sensors, Aarhus Universitet (from Denmark), CONNECTERRA BV, Eshuis BV i Wageningen University (from the Netherlands), Università degli Studi di Milano (from Italy), Lluonnonvarakeskus i Hämeenlinnan Osuusmeijeri (from Finland) i Cattle Watch Ltd (form Israel).

Activities

ClearFarm has the goal of co-designing, developing and validating a software platform promoted by an algorythm that integrates data from PLF to give information about animal welfare. This will assist production chain stakeholders and consumers in their decision-making within the pig and dairy value chains.

Period

Start date: October 1st, 2019
End date: March 31st, 2024

Funding

The project has been funded by 6M€ from the European Horizon 2020 Program by the European Commission.