Optimization of Livestock Housing Management
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2024) | Viewed by 6299
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agricultural buildings; building energy efficiency; climate control; controlled environment agriculture; energy modeling; energy performance assessment; energy-smart agriculture; HVAC systems; livestock housing; sustainable agriculture
Interests: animal transportation; CFD modeling; indoor microclimate; livestock vehicle; livestock housing; ventilation; outdoor airflow
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Livestock housing is a human practice that has existed for millennia, but the advent of intensive agriculture started to submit it to an ongoing engineering process. Nowadays, the increasing social demand for sustainable livestock production and supply chains is pushing for improving animal welfare, farm productivity, resources use, waste management, and food security. All those improvements should be achieved without jeopardizing the environmental sustainability and competitiveness of farms in the market. In this framework, a lot of efforts are being paid to develop new technologies and improved farm practices for optimizing livestock housing management while considering the global challenges represented by climate change and increasing demographic trends.
This Special Issue aims at collecting impactful research focused on the latest scientific and technical advances in optimizing livestock housing management from a multi- and interdisciplinary point of view. Authors are invited to submit papers covering a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
- Indoor environmental control;
- Resource (e.g., feed, water, and energy) utilization;
- Waste management;
- Emission control;
- Heat stress mitigation;
- Housing cleanliness, and sanitation;
- Worker safety;
- Life Cycle Assessment.
All types of articles, such as original research papers and reviews, are welcome.
Dr. Andrea Costantino
Dr. Guoxing Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- animal welfare
- energy-efficient livestock housing
- environmental control
- farm machinery
- farm management
- greenhouse gas emissions
- livestock housing ventilation
- livestock production
- odor dispersion and control
- precision livestock farming