Consumer demand for meadow milk is rising. This is milk from cows that graze outdoors on pasture for part of the year. To claim the label, cows must be on pasture 120 days a year and 6 hours a day. But what about methane emissions when cows eat uncontrolled amounts of fresh grass? ILVO is trying to find an answer to this through research.
Wide platforms for broilers to sit on or shelter under in the house have a positive effect on some animal welfare indicators without an adverse effect on growth, feed intake, feed conversion or certai...
How can individual dairy farms secure their future in the changing context ahead? Commissioned by the Flemish Land Agency, ILVO researchers have developed ten schools of thought around this question.
