About
PLF Agritech
The concept for our company was a team effort between industry and academia. After interviewing local livestock producers at a workshop, founder Prof. Thomas Banhazi wanted to create a partnership where producers and academics could work together to create a new way of livestock monitoring to aid livestock production.
Our Mission
Provide technologies for smart livestock farming.
What is Smart Livestock Farming?
Smart Livestock farming is the use of advanced technologies to optimise the growth of animals. Different ICT tools, such as cameras, real-time image analysis, and various sensors around the animals are continuously monitoring the health, welfare and environmental condition of livestock facilities with the aim of improving animal welfare, the social and economic performance of intensive livestock farms.
PLF Agritech has developed GROW PERFECT an integrated system comprising revolutionary technologies for intensive livestock farms.
Grow Perfect
Grow Perfect is a system of hardware (sensing technologies) integrated with purpose-built software which collects and analyses key production data from livestock production facilities. The process of data collection is complemented by innovative, automated, real-time data analysis, reporting and advisory software which enables precise monitoring and management of growing conditions within large farm production buildings.
Elements Of Grow Perfect
Enviro Detect
Facilitates routine assessment of environmental parameters.
Weight Detect
Non-invasively weighs pigs in the same pen.
ADAMS
A cutting-edge production management software package.
What Our Clients Say About Us
Testimonials
PLF Agritech has been providing its services to Belmont Pastoral Co since the beginning of 2018. They installed several Weight-Detect and Enviro-Detect monitors in two of our grower/finisher sheds to continuously monitor the weight gain of our pigs and their environmental conditions. We receive weekly reports from PLF Agritech that summarises the growth rate of our pens and the environmental conditions in the buildings.
We find these reports invaluable for monitoring our management practices and for better timing the market days for our animals. The reports we receive are easy to understand and provide important information that was unavailable to us beforehand.
Over the past decade, thanks to the very high-quality research and development work which has been carried out by PLF Agritech and A/Prof Thomas Banhazi, significant progress has been made in the area of precision livestock farming.
Nevertheless, despite these efforts, precision livestock farming still remains largely inaccessible to livestock producers in Europe.The development of contactless weighing of livestock and environmental monitoring of livestock building in real time are truly significant achievements that could significantly benefit the European and especially the Hungarian livestock farming community.
