Stephanie Buijs
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Stephanie Buijs is a leading researcher in precision dairy farming and animal behavior, with a focus on optimizing automatic milking systems (AMS) for dairy cows. Her work addresses a critical bottleneck in modern dairy management: ensuring cows voluntarily and consistently visit milking robots to maintain productivity and welfare. Buijs’s key contributions include pioneering behavioral interventions to enhance robot visit frequency, such as training cows to respond to specific cues and designing priority lanes that give less competitive animals—particularly lame or low-ranking cows—better access to the milking station. Her 2025 study, “Do cows come when called?” (2 citations), demonstrates the potential of cue-based training to improve voluntary movement, while her work on priority lanes (1 citation) tackles inequities in AMS access that can undermine herd health and system efficiency. Though early in their citation lifecycle, these studies are foundational for integrating pasture-based grazing with automated milking, a growing industry challenge. Buijs’s research uniquely bridges animal welfare science and agricultural engineering, offering practical solutions that boost both productivity and cow well-being. Her innovative, applied approach is shaping the next generation of smart dairy farming.
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