Digitalisation has reached agricultural production and specifically dairy farming, where a wide range of sensing technologies are now available. From farm management systems over body condition scoring systems to those that detect behavioural changes. All these systems have one aim: to offer decision support to the farmer ...

We aimed to understand the development of cocoa trees in the semi-arid conditions of Brazil. Dendrometers continuously measure stem diameter variations of trees, displaying the trees’ direct reaction to endogenous and exogenous factors. We analysed Daily Shrinkage (DS) and Daily Net Growth (DNG) with specific regard to ...