Spatially Enabled Livestock Management Symposium

 

July 6, 2012

Lincoln University
Christchurch
New Zealand

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Suggested topics:

• Virtual fencing technologies for riparian zone management
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• Manipulating rangeland management through understanding animal responses to their natural or man-altered environment
  
  
• RFID active technologies to track animals
  
  
• Automated animal control devices
  
  
• Do tracking devices affect animal behaviour?
  
  
• Functional analyses of geo-datasets
  
  
• Landscape system-based forage assessment tool
  
  
• Understanding land use patterns of livestock
  
  
• Where do dairy cows move to and why?
  
  
• Developing grazing behaviour models from spatio-temporal data; applications of autonomous spatial livestock monitoring in commercial grazing systems
  
  
• Cow response to heat stress in New Zealand hill country
  
  
• Learning and adaptation challenges faced by livestock farmers using percision technologies
  
  
• Locating critical source areas of potential pollution based on animals' use of the landscape.
  

Deadline for abstracts – Closed, March 26, 2012

Note: this symposium follows the joint Australia-NZ Animal Production Societies Conference at Lincoln University.

For more info contact:

Keith Betteridge, keith.betteridge@agresearch.co.nz

Isabelle Vanderkolk, isabelle.vanderkolk@agresearch.co.nz

Event sponsors

Miss EL Hellaby Indigenous Grasslands Research Trust