P6: Future Systems – Dairy Da.T.A

Dairy UP’s P6 project is exploring ways to use existing farm, climate and industry data to develop ways to monitor cows and systems to help farmers make better decisions, for example about heat management, health and feeding. One aim is to support animal and environmentally friendly intensification.

Dairy UP’s P6 project involves three areas of work:

P6 is a suite of three projects that combine animal science and data science. Each project is being undertaken by a PhD student.

  1. P6a: Resilient cattle (heat tolerance): optimising on-farm energy use and cooling systems.
  2. P6b: Resilient cattle (health): early intervention for improved animal health, enabled by advanced sensing.
  3. P6c: Digital feeding – data-driven feeding to optimise grain allocation in pasture-based herds.

PhD Projects

P6 - Cow responses to climate extremes

P6 - Novel monitoring tools to optimise individual animal management

Project Update (October 2023)

PhD opportunities in the dairy industry

P6 Lead/co-ordinator:

Cameron Clark

Cameron Clark

Project Team:

  • Yani Garcia (Usyd)
  • Ian Lean (Scibus)
  • Jim Rothwell (NSW DPI)
  • Peter Thompson (Usyd)
  • Anna Chlingaryan (USyd)
  • Maddison Pearce (USyd)
  • Alice Shirley (USyd)