Livestock Market Remote Operations & Engagement Platform - Keeping The Meat Supply Food Chain Moving

duradidiamond Software （DDS）项目的重点是解决牲畜市场（Livestock Markets）所面临的挑战，即在当前危机下促进动物销售。牲畜市场是食物链中的一个关键利益相关者。牲畜销售通过这些市场进行，采用“面对面”的交易模式。这涉及到供应商和购买者参加一个中心位置（市场），并在动物进入销售圈时对它们进行竞标。在当前的危机下，由于担心感染Covid-19病毒，即使采取了社交距离措施，供应商/采购商也不愿前往牲畜市场的实体地点。我们的项目重点是开发一种解决方案，使牲畜拍卖市场能够促进动物的远程销售，减少对供应商、采购商和拍卖市场工作人员在面对面的环境中操作的要求，从而使他们面临感染Covid-19病毒的可能风险。此外，通过该项目创造的解决方案将促进畜牧业利益攸关方之间的沟通，有助于打破目前限制造成的社会孤立。在Covid-19限制期间，该平台将通过减少与社交距离相关的隔离，促进改善远程工作和福祉，从而在短期内支持食物链的一个关键组成部分的运作，但它还将解决该部门内部的长期挑战，从而在现有危机之外具有更大的意义。这些措施包括减少与农业相关的普遍隔离，这是一个很大程度上孤独的工作职业，也减少了与牲畜销售相关的碳排放，从而有助于英国到2040年实现净零排放的目标。

Duradiamond Software (DDS) project centres around addressing the challenges faced by Livestock Markets, a key stakeholder in the food chain, of facilitating the sale of animals under the current crisis. Livestock sales are transacted through these markets using a "face to face" trading model. This involves vendors and purchasers attending a central location (market) and bidding on animals as they come into a sale ring. Under the current crisis, there is a reluctance for vendors/purchasers to attend the physical Livestock Market locations, even with social distancing measures in place, due to concerns about contracting the Covid-19 virus. Our project focuses on developing a solution which will allow livestock auction markets to facilitate remote sales of animals, reducing the requirement for vendors, purchasers and auction market staff to operate in a face to face environment which places them at possible risk of contracting the Covid-19 virus.Further to the above, the solution created through the project will facilitate communication between stakeholders in the livestock industry, helping to break down the social isolation that results from the current restrictions.The platform will in the short term support the operation of a key component of the food chain by facilitating improved remote working and wellbeing by reducing the isolation associated with social distancing during Covid-19 restrictions, however, it will also address longer term challenges within the sector and thus have a greater significance beyond the existing crisis. These include reducing the general isolation associated with farming, a largely lone working profession and also reducing carbon emissions associated with livestock sales, thus contributing to the UK's net zero emissions by 2040 objective.