Boxwood moth
...ntally introduced into Europe in 2006, more specifically in southwestern Germany. This most likely happened through wooden packaging material containing eggs or caterpillars. The boxwood moth reach...
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Coastal protection
ILVO provides advice and support for area-based approaches related to coastal protection.
Soy
...ikely descended from a wild legume from Central China. The first soybeans were grown in North China approximately 3,000 years ago. After WWII, the United States developed into the largest soy produ...
Aquaculture at sea
...es for obtaining an economically feasible process of processing and drying these organisms for bulk applications in aquaculture feeds. In addition, the presence of interesting bioactive substances ...
Agroforestry
...es? The roll-out of the system in Flemish agriculture has been quite slow over the past decade. Approximately 130 hectares of agroforestry has been added to around 50 farms between 2011, the st...
Business models
ILVO builds handy web applications and tools to help farmers make business choices or for business-economic trainings.
Precision livestock farming
...igs and even poultry sporadically. Problems can be detected and solved faster using an individual approach and monitoring. The farmer can focus their management on the animals that need it most. To...
Plant health
...nd diseases. That is why ILVO uses innovative technology in addition to the traditional routinely applied methods. ILVO develops, optimizes, and implements numerous PCR-based detection techniques, ...
Water in agriculture
...? Looking at the figures, agriculture in Flanders is not the largest consumer of water: only approximately 9% of the total water consumption comes from agricultural activities. However, there ...
Food: balanced and healthy
ILVO’s expertise in nutritional physiology is applied to the pig as a model system to study the link between diet and health.
Farmer stress and mental well-being
...t unity, there is a strong connection between stress factors, well-being, and the coping strategies applied. For example, a family that copes effectively with stress factors will be more resilient ...
Agroecology
With scientific as well as practical knowledge, and a systems approach, ILVO studies how to make the agro-food system more sustainable.
Short chain
...ctural collaborations with short-chain farms ILVO wants to deliver relevant and applied research for all forms of agriculture. ILVO has an extensive research infrastructure, with 90 buildings, ...
Status of the fish stocks
ILVO manages and links data in the context of fish stock estimates, management strategies and ecosystem approaches.
Soil health
... show great variability within a plot. This makes it difficult to measure soil health and recommend appropriate soil management. In recent years, a range of innovative measurement technique...
Soil improvement with organic fertilizers
ILVO investigates how organic residue streams can be processed (composting, fermentation,...) before being applied to the soil.
Application of organic soil improvers
Nutrition for target groups
...r people with taste and odor loss and/or swallowing and chewing problems, so that they retain their appetite and the risk of malnutrition is reduced.Gut health and neurological disorders.
Nitrogen
... in ammonia (NH3) emissions. The main sources of ammonia emissions are barns, manure storage, field application of manure, and manure processing. Ammonia is a major contributor to nitrogen depositi...
Erosion
... maize in May and the concentration of sediment at the lowest part of the field.What rules of thumb apply to avoid erosion? There are two main ways to combat erosion: Making the soil more ...
Methane emissions in livestock farming (enteric emissions)
System approach
...2030". What can livestock farmers do to reduce these emissions? Beef farmers can apply measures to reduce CH4 emissions within 3 categories: feed, management and genetics. 1. R...
Allergens
..., independent of any processing that the matrix underwent. Digital droplet PCR (ddPCR) has numerous applications for, among others, determining the identity of fish, GMO detection and quantificatio...
Animal welfare
Development, validation and application of indicators to monitor animal welfare on farms, during transport and at the slaughterhouse.
Stray voltage in the dairy barn
...or milking robot, are very restless or do not drop their milk, they avoid certain cubicles or don't approach the feeding fence ... With stray voltage at the water trough, you will see that cows fir...
Soil: carbon sequestration
... of carbon that remains is not the same for all organic materials but depends on the quality of the applied material ('effective organic carbon'). Carbon balance The stable carbon, in t...
Authenticity of food products
...t on their labels. This is stipulated in European legislation. But sometimes infringements of this happen. In the case of a deliberate infringement, it is often about dilution, use of a cheaper ing...
Ruimte op zee
ILVO collects a lot of data and develops tools such as GeoFish, which informs fishermen of zones where fishing restrictions apply.
Algae: seaweed and microalgae
...lt replacer. Taste is what makes the difference Worldwide, about 90% of algae is used for food applications. In Europe, it is only 9%. Both consumers and food producers in our part of the worl...
Biodiversity and ecosystem services in relation to agriculture
...eased use of fertilizers and pesticides, among others. At the landscape level, it has led to the disappearance of semi-natural elements. These are green elements that are strongly influenced by hum...
Ecosystem-oriented marine modeling and management
Ecosystem approach to stock assessments
...activities can have a significant impact on the marine environment. Systems thinking approach The marine environment is often studied through monitoring, directed experiments or ...
Food: Food safety
... screening methods, LC-MS/MS methods) as well as more recently introduced concepts such as "-Omics" approaches and techniques such as Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and untargeted (non-targeted) ana...
Precisielandbouw
...it verschillende bronnen in één of enkele gebruiksvriendelijke apps voor landbouwers mogelijk. Slimme, geconnecteerde machines Ten vierde moeten de machines op een landbouwbedrijf of bij ...
Rassenlijsten
...rden dikwijls in mengsels uitgezaaid. Het is daarom belangrijk om inzicht te krijgen in de eigenschappen van verschillende grassoorten en -rassen.> Bekijk de rassenlijsten voor grasKuilm...
Alternatives to castration of piglets
Optimization of application in practice
...of piglets under local or general anesthesiano castration: production of intact boarsno castration: application of vaccine-based immunocastration In other words, either the piglets are still castra...
Biodiversity in and on the sea floor
ILVO is looking at cost-effective options for mapping North Sea biodiversity through genetic applications.
Mestrapporten
Mestrapport 2018 In het jaarlijkse Mestrapport worden een aantal belangrijke elementen vanuit het mestbeleid van naderbij bekeken. Ook de samenhang tussen de verschillende deelaspecten wordt belicht. ...