Suzanne Leonard
Bio
Precision livestock farming is a growing area of animal production systems that utilizes technology, data, engineering, and animal science principles to improve livestock production, management, welfare, and sustainability. Dr. Leonard’s program applies precision livestock farming techniques to optimize food animal production systems, focusing on swine. These applied research projects and Extension programs strive for solutions that producers can broadly implement.
Publications
- Estimating backfat depth, loin depth, and intramuscular fat percentage from ultrasound images in swine , ANIMAL (2023)
- Gruel Creep Feeding Accelerates Growth and Alters Intestinal Health of Young Pigs , ANIMALS (2022)
- Impact of housing environment and management on pre-/post-weaning piglet productivity , JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE (2022)
- Automating ultrasound measurements of back fat and loin depth in swine , (2021)
- Effect of stall size, number of heat lamps during farrowing: Part 1 , National Hog Farmer (2021)
- Effect of stall size, number of heat lamps during farrowing: Part 2 , National Hog Farmer (2021)
- Effect of stall size, number of heat lamps during farrowing: Part 3 , National Hog Farmer (2021)
- Effects of farrowing stall layout and number of heat lamps on sow and piglet behavior , Applied Animal Behaviour Science (2021)
- Farrowing pen design is focus of precision farming study; Big data enables easier pig behaviour research , Ontario Farmer (2021)
- Static and Dynamic Space Usage of Late-Gestation Sows , Transactions of the ASABE (2021)