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For cow welfare and to prevent abnormal cow behavior, it is important that the dairy barn is free of stray voltage. What is stray voltage, how do they occur and what to do about it are all addressed i...
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...y and pig farms, especially in terms of ventilation control and feeding. This is also increasing on dairy farms, and includes things like milking robots and manure robots. But sensors are also used...
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...ng panel.
A few Food Pilot success stories:
Kortenboshoeve is a dairy farm with a farm store and its own artisanal production of cheese, butter, buttermilk, rice pudding, yogurt, and ice cr...
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...chniques such as AFLP, SSRs, KASP and NGS based techniques (amplicon sequencing, GBS, ...).
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By means of specific chemical heat parameters, such as lactulose, HMF and furosine, the...
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...afe product.
Microalgae
Right in protein: from 25 to 60% of the dried product.Just as fish, dairy, egg and soy, they contain all the essential amino acids that people need, in sufficient am...
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...health reasons or simply because it tastes good.For conventional animal protein sources such as dairy, meat, fish or eggs, we rely on age-old nutritional wisdom and many decades of study. Alter...
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http://eurodairy.eu/
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EuroDairy is a new international network to increase the economic, social and environmental sustainability of dairy farming in Europe
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... the Flemish Covenant on Enteric Emissions Cattle 2019-2030 (CEER) mostly target lactating barn-fed dairy cows. The METHGRAS project focuses on how much methane an outdoor, grass-eating cow emits, ...
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General introductionThe aim of this INTERREG project is to improve the profitability on dairy farms through extensive knowledge exchange over the French-Belgian border. The project is focused on i...
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General introductionThis dairy farming project called "JongLeven" aims to provide Flemish dairy farmers with clear tools and guidelines to work on a more economical and sustainable husbandry of yo...
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General introductionThe dairy sector is characterized by increasing milk production per cow. This high productivity poses a challenge for the animal. Especially the period of 60 to 90 days around ...
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...>To manage the intensification of livestock production in an economically efficient way, the modern dairy farms have to rely on precision livestock farming (PLF) systems for the collection and the ...
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...troductionThe Operational Group MELKTOOLS aims to improve the economic resilience of its member dairy farmers. The reason is the observation that the profitability of an average dairy farm in F...
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SOMEBIO focuses on Flemish organic dairy farming, and how it can reduce its climate impact through better feed composition
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... can help improve both curative treatment of lame cows and periodic preventive claw care on Flemish dairy farms? To answer this question, researchers are looking in the direction of automatic and s...
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...tion of methane emissions from ruminants (cattle) in Flanders by 2030. Research approachTen dairy farms will be selected for a demonstration trial, using one of the nine approved feeding st...
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... mitigation strategies or grassland climate adaptation strategies on enteric methane emissions from dairy cattle
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...on, and the excretion of urinary urea. This urea is the main source of ammonia (NH3) emissions from dairy farming. A 1% decrease in dietary CP content can reduce NH3 emissions by 10%. Low protein r...
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Dairy farmers, their customers, and their suppliers will find here the answer to “what can ILVO do for me?”. You’ll get a brief overview of relevant expertise, analyses, infrastructure, and the profes...
Analysis and processing of dairy products
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...f total greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and help determine the climate impact of meat and dairy farming.
ILVO can measure methane emissions from its own dairy cattle in the barn and on the pasture.
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...sors on the animal to provide the farmer with real-time insight into the daily (inter)action of the dairy goats? The precision farming technology in this case aims at the optimization of the produc...
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...estigates the ammonia emission reducing effect of zeolites as litter and feed additive in (organic) dairy goats. Research approachZeolites are used in practice as feed and bedding additives...
News | 15/01/2019
...official, scientifically-supported measurement protocol.
Watch the video about stray voltage on dairy farms below.
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News | 26/09/2023
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...
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News | 18/01/2021
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...
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News | 24/08/2021
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...
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Claw problems and lameness are important, often underestimated conditions in dairy cattle. They have serious economic consequences and a negative impact on cow welfare.The VLAIO Clawcare project s...
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News | 03/08/2018
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Stray voltage can affect the productivity and the welfare of dairy cattle.
News | 04/06/2024
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...
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News | 17/09/2018
... 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...
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The aim of the "Innovative tools for the support of preventive and curative hoof care in dairy cattle" project is to update and improve the current approach to hoof problems on Flemish dairy farms. Th...
News | 23/07/2020
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General introductionRecent growth measurements of young calves on Flemish dairy farms show there is room for improvement in terms of efficient rearing. The KALFIT project aims to develop a prevent...
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How can dairy farmers better substantiate their strategic business decisions in a way that is tailored to their farm, within an ever-changing market and social context?
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...t for grazing, by pooling the knowledge gathered above and by supporting knowledge exchange between dairy farmers. Research approachVia a survey of Flemish dairy farmers, the researchers le...