How farmer perceptions and automation impact lameness

Though lameness poses a serious threat to dairy herds, farmers fail to see it as such. Automated detection is helpful, but how can uptake be improved? A recent research paper by Dutton-Regester et al. dived into this question, focusing on the importance of the condition, farmer detection, diagnosis, and treatment of lameness (as well as farmer perceptions about the condition), and lameness detection technologies and their potential on-farm application to automate lameness detection in commercia