The Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) Lab. is a research unit at the Institute of Agricultural Engineering of the Agriculture Research Organization (ARO), located at the Volcani Center campus in Bet-Dagan, near Tel-Aviv, Israel.
While encompassing the full range of agricultural research activities, the PLF lab focuses in particular on developing PLF management concepts and their associated monitoring technologies (sensors) for farmed animals (dairy, sheep, goats, poultry, and aquaculture).
The lab's researchers and close and long-standing relationships with Israeli students, engineers and technicians and their counterparts in Europe, the US, Australia and elsewhere; and with Israeli technological and agricultural companies. The laboratory implements its vision through excellence in research and development, to help Israel to continue achieving one of the highest levels of agricultural output in the world.