ICAR Conference, Date: 2019/06/17 - 2019/06/21, Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Publication date:
2019-12
Pages:
111 -
115
ISBN:
92-95014-20-0
ISSN:
1563-2504
Publisher:
ICAR; Rome, Italy
ICAR Technical Series no. 24: New traits and adding new value to the recording and ID services in the animal production
Author:
Uusitalo, Sanna
Aernouts, Ben ; Sumen, Juha ; Hietala, Eero ; Utriainen, Mikko ; Frondelius, Lilli ; Kajava, Sari ; Pastell, Matti
Abstract:
The dairy farms have a need for on-site milk analysis to determine the fat and protein content of the milk in real-time manner during milking. Near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has shown promise as an on-farm tool for fat and protein content determination of raw milk. However, for a successful implementation, on-site analysis requires affordable and small NIR sensors for the milk analysis. This study demonstrates the potential of using Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System (MEMS) based NIR sensors for on-farm and at-line measuring the milk fat and protein content and compares the results to golden standard analysis and commercial cooled Photo Diode Array (PDA) NIR sensor