A family run farm close to a river. Due to global warming, challenges in obtaini

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A family run farm close to a river. Due to global warming, challenges in obtaining seasonal labour, increasing regulations from the regional council around nitrogen pollution in rivers, the family has decided to look at new digital technology and they have asked your company to make recommendations of how digital technology can assist. For each of the problems below, identify a solution that may assist using one or a combination of digital technologies. Limit your answers for each problem to a short paragraph (less than 100 words) and a sketch to clearly show your proposed solution:

Problem 1 - Grass growth: A lot of grass is needed to feed dairy cows. Grass growth is a factor or soil temperature, fertilizer, water & sunlight. As a sustainable farmer I don’t want to apply too much fertilizer, so how can I use technology to predict the grass growth?

Problem 2 - Traceability: Customers are increasing wanting traceability of their food. How could this be achieved without requiring a central company / database controlling the market?

Problem 3 - Animal monitoring: Traditionally, everyday farm workers are employed to go through the paddocks and monitor the animals for potential health issues and check the water troughs are working. This year they have not been able to hire anyone and there’s too much work for themselves. How could technology assist to augment their work or automate the monitoring?

Problem 4 - Stock feed predictions: The family would like to predict how much stock feed to purchase this year before it gets expensive but don’t want to pay over the odds. I’ve paid for a weather prediction for the year, but want to know what technology I could utilize to look at historical weather data combined with stock price to identify when and how much to purchase.

Explanation / Answer

Answer 1:-

Two grass growth models are available:

1. Jouven et al. (2006) (J Model):

2. Johnson and Thornley (1983) (J&T Model)

When we provide input to these models like such as wind, temperature, air temperature,etc it can sucessfully predict the grass growth.

Answer 2:

For making customers sure about tracebility they have to register to ISO 9001 Quality Standards. These require that the product should be able to be traced from the present stage back through all its phases of manufacture through exact and timely record-keeping.

When registration mark will be done, customers will feel assured while buying there products

Answer 3:-

In following ways we can use technology to assist us in farm and also monitor the health of animals:

1. Bio Sensor is a device that measures a physiological or behavioral parameter (related to the health or estrus) of an individual cow and enables automated, on farm detection of changes in this condition that is related to a health event (such as disease ) and requires action on the part of the farmer(such as treatment).

2. Pregnancy diagnosis:

There is a reliable method by wich we can check early pregnancy in our heard,

3. Temperature sensor:

These sensors help us to monitor the temperature of animals.

Answer 4:-

Historical weather:-

Stock Price:

1. TACTICAL MOMENTUM algorithms can be used to foretell the stock prices

2. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) model can be used to foretell stocks.

These methods are prediction use probabilty analysis.

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