OPTI-BEEF: precision agricultural solution to monitor lifetime productivity and product quality

OPTI-BEEF：监测生命周期生产力和产品质量的精准农业解决方案

• 批准号: 105146
• 金额: $ 160.27万
• 依托单位: HALL MARK MEAT HYGIENE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105146
• 关键词: OPTI; BEEF; precision; agricultural; solution

"There is currently extensive inefficiency in the UK beef sector. Producers routinely assess the performance of their animals by eye and frequently retain them on farm too long, resulting in animals becoming too fat. This leads to increased variable farm costs, reduced annual capacity of beef finishing units and sub-optimal price paid for carcasses -- for a finishing unit producing 300 animals per year this equates to a cost of £11,400\. Over-fat animals also increase the primary processing costs for abattoirs and have a higher environmental impact per kg of product produced.The price paid to the producer for a beef carcass is also predominantly assessed subjectively by eye. Lack of confidence in the reliability of carcass evaluation makes it difficult to agree quality-based payments that reflect the true value of carcasses.This project aims to develop on-farm and in abattoir technologies to automate and optimise on-farm selection of animals for slaughter and carcass evaluation. The project will integrate automated data gathered across the whole life of individual beef animals (from calf to carcass) to create an enhanced decision support platform to modernise and drive efficiency improvements across the UK beef supply chain."

“目前英国牛肉行业普遍效率低下。生产者通常通过肉眼评估动物的表现，并经常将它们留在农场太长时间，导致动物变得太胖。这导致可变农场成本增加，牛肉屠宰单位的年产能减少以及屠体支付的次优价格 - 对于每年生产 300 头动物的屠宰单位来说，这相当于 11,400 英镑的成本\。过度肥胖的动物还会增加 屠宰场的初级加工成本，每生产一公斤产品对环境的影响更大。支付给生产者的牛肉屠体价格也主要通过肉眼主观评估。由于对屠体评估的可靠性缺乏信心，因此很难就反映屠体真实价值的基于质量的付款达成一致。该项目旨在开发农场和屠宰场技术，以自动化和优化农场动物选择 屠宰和胴体评估。该项目将整合在单个牛肉动物（从牛犊到屠体）的整个生命周期中收集的自动化数据，以创建一个增强的决策支持平台，以实现整个英国牛肉供应链的现代化并推动效率的提高。”