Digital Twins of Dairy Herds: A Review of What the Model Must Represent to Support Culling Decisions
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22665015Keywords:
Digital Twins of Dairy Herds; Agro-informatics; Precision agriculture; Evidence synthesis; On-farm technologyAbstract
Digital Twins of Dairy Herds has moved quickly from a research idea to something a working farm can actually use, but the
evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current evidence for digital twins of dairy herds, covering the
methodological, practical, governance and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where farms and
advisors are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence
gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.
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