Table 2.

Summary of the themes.

Theme	Description
Extending the self	Farmers’ concepts of their self-identity extend to the way they manage their animals and the data they produce
Sense of agency	Farmers value their experiential knowledge, affective relations with their animals, and their ability for abductive reasoning
Quantifying animals	Technologies generate new quantitative knowledge about animals’ behaviour which forms new norms that animals adhere to at the individual, group, and herd level
Managing human labour	Technology that collects data on farm workers and animals is used as a surveillance technique to manage the workers. It can also facilitate collaboration between people on the farm