CATTLE BODY WEIGHT PREDICTION USING REGRESSION MACHINE LEARNING

Increasing efficiency and productivity in the cattle farming industry can have a significant economic impact. Cow health and productivity problems directly impact the quality of the meat and milk produced. In the cattle farming industry, it can help predict cow weight oriented to beef and milk quality. The importance of predicting cow weight for farmers is to monitor animal development. Meanwhile, for traders, knowing the animal's weight makes it easier to calculate the price of the animal meat they buy. This research aims to predict cow weight by increasing the results of smaller MAE values. The methods used are linear Regressor (LR), Random Forest Regressor (RFR), Support Vector Regressor (SVR), K-Neighbors Regressor (KNR), Multi-layer Perceptron Regressor (MLPR), Gradient Boosting Regressor (GBR), Light Gradient boosting (LGB), and extreme gradient boosting regressor (XGBR). Producing cattle weight predictions using the SVR method produces the best values, namely mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.09 kg, mean absolute perception error (MAPE) of 0.02%, root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.08 kg, and R-square of 0.97 compared to with other algorithm methods and the results of statistical correlation analysis showed several significant relationships between morphometric variables and live weight.