71543 - Systems and Technologies for a Sustainable Livestock Production

Learning outcomes

The students will acquire the knowledge on innovative technologies for a sustainable livestock farming, with particolar regard to the automatisation and informatisation of animal management, the reduction of environmental impact, the slurry management and the production and use of renewable energy.

Course contents

Sustainability aspects: definitions and concepts.
Building and plant solutions for a precision livestock farming, animal welfare, and energy saving.
Norms and Plans for the environmental impact restraint of animal waste and emissions.
Plant solutions for the management and treatment of animal manure.
Plants for the production of energy from renewable sources in livestock farming (biogas, wind, solar thermal and photovoltaic).
Use of renewable energy in livestock farms.

Readings/Bibliography

AA.VV., La nuova stalla da latte: per una zootecnia innovativa e sostenibile, Milano, Edagricole-New Business Media, 2013.

CRPA, Strutture, attrezzature e impianti per vacche da latte, Ed. L'Informatore Agrario, 2002.

CRPA, Ricoveri, attrezzature e impianti perl'ellevamento dei suini, Ed. L'Informatore Agrario, 2004.

Clipboard of the lessons.

Teaching methods

Teaching is articulated in frontal lectures and lab experiments (*).

(*) If there will be no restrictions related to the health emergency.

Assessment methods

The knowledge verification will be only through the final examination, which verifies the acquisition of knowledge and skills expected by an oral examination of about 30 minutes without the aid of notes or books. The oral examination consists of three questions each learning module.
The evaluation will be proportional to the student's ability to properly and critically argue the answers to the questions asked during the examination.
The grading criterion for the mark will be, therefore, as far as possible, the following: excellent ability: 30 (full mark is provided when the student shows an additional degree of dialectic when talking with the examiner on the subjects discussed); good ability: 29-27; moderate ability: 26-24; mediocre ability: 23-20; minimum ability: 19-18.
The final mark is calculated as the arithmetic average of the grades obtained in each learning module.

 

Teaching tools

Instruments and lab material, computer, videos, softwares.

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Liberati

See the website of Mirko Maraldi