How can individual dairy farms secure their future in a changing context? Commissioned by the Flemish Land Agency, ILVO researchers have developed ten schools of thought around this question. Two scen...
Linked Sectors: Dairy farming
Dairy farmers can reduce their nitrogen emissions by switching to grass-clover in combination with reduced nitrogen fertilization and mowing practices that improve grass silage quality. Reducing prote...
Agricultural economists juxtaposed long-term production figures from all Flemish dairy farms with recorded weather events to assess the economic damage caused by heat. Heat can have a clear negative i...
Linked Sectors: Dairy farming
Flemish dairy farmers working under the Covenant for Enteric Emissions from Cattle are faced with the task of significantly reducing their enteric methane emissions by 2030. If they want to avoid a dr...
Linked Sectors: Dairy farming
Field beans are an interesting alternative for imported soy in dairy production, but only if the beans are first heated. Those are the results from the ILVO-study within the EKOPTI project. Heating is...
Linked Sectors: Dairy farming
Linked Sectors: Dairy farming
...br> Profitability and being able to meet the growing world demand for milk are two reasons that dairy farms are scaling up. An increasing number of animals offers economies of scale but also cr...
Linked Sectors: Dairy farming
...official, scientifically-supported measurement protocol. Watch the video about stray voltage on dairy farms below.
Linked Sectors: Dairy farming
... during their rumination process.ILVO has investigated three approaches to methane reduction in dairy farming: changes to feed composition, influencing methane production in the rumen using add...
Linked Sectors: Dairy farming
Linked Sectors: Dairy farming
Stray voltage can affect the productivity and the welfare of dairy cattle.