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Energy consumption and technical-economic analysis of an automatic feeding system for dairy farms: R...

Energy consumption and technical-economic analysis of an automatic feeding system for dairy farms: R...

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Energy consumption and technical-economic analysis of an automatic feeding system for dairy farms: Results from a field test

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Energy consumption and technical-economic analysis of an automatic feeding system for dairy farms: Results from a field test

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Bologna: PAGEPress Publications

Journal title

Journal of agricultural engineering (Pisa, Italy), 2018-07, Vol.49 (4), p.228-232

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English

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Bologna: PAGEPress Publications

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Contents

The need to reduce labour demand and the increasing size of herds have led - in the last years - to develop specific automated solutions for feeding animals in dairy farms. Currently there are more than 1250 automatic feeding systems (AFS) used worldwide, but there is a lack of information about both their energy requirements and management costs....

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Energy consumption and technical-economic analysis of an automatic feeding system for dairy farms: Results from a field test

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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_1c1e4f65ecab42b89be0fe436ca6264e

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_1c1e4f65ecab42b89be0fe436ca6264e

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ISSN

1974-7071

E-ISSN

2239-6268

DOI

10.4081/jae.2018.869

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