Digital technologies including artificial intelligence, computer vision, and sensor systems are transforming the ability to monitor and improve farm animal welfare at scale.
Digital innovation offers transformative potential for farm animal welfare by enabling continuous individual monitoring that stockmanship alone cannot provide. Early warning systems that detect welfare deviation before clinical signs develop reduce the duration and severity of suffering. Aggregated welfare data across farms enables identification of systemic welfare problems and interventions at industry scale. Ensuring digital welfare tools complement rather than replace skilled stockmanship maintains the human relationship at the heart of good welfare.