Figure 4
From: Combining expert knowledge and machine-learning to classify herd types in livestock systems
Class boundaries of the 17 identified herd types in the final self-organising map (see Fig. 3). (a) Main herd types in Ireland: dairy (D), beef (B), mixed (M), store/rearing (S/R), fattening (F), and trading (T) herds. (b) Dairy herd types: dairy (D), dairy no rearing—contract (DnR-C), dairy no rearing—no contract (DnR-nC), dairy rearing male calves (DRm). (c) Beef herd types: beef pedigree (BP), beef suckling to weanling (BSW), beef suckling to youngstock (BSY), Beef suckling to youngstock—no rearing (BSY-nR), Beef suckling to beef (BSB). (d) store/rearing herd types: store dairy males (Sdm), store beef males (Sbm), store beef females (Sbf), store beef mixed (Sbmx), rearing dairy females (Rdf).
