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Low protein feeding for beef cattle
Linked Sectors: Feed Production
How can livestock producers provide substantiated evidence for the correct application of low protein feeding of beef cattle as an ammonia emission reduction measure?
Sustainable sow feeding for optimal lactation
Can we develop an improved preparatory feeding schedule for lactating sows with many piglets so that the animals' very high feed requirements are fully met?
Optimal cultivation of protein crops for poultry feeding
Linked Sectors: Feed Production
How can arable farmers, poultry farmers and the local animal feed industry in Flanders work with crops mixed with legumes, as an alternative source of protein for poultry?
Joining forces for optimal organic feed for weaner piglets
...less around weaning than conventional piglets? And how can we formulate and produce organic weaning feed that the piglets like better, taking their nutrient needs into account and staying within a ...
Feed Production
Cattle farmers who produce their own feeds and entrepreneurs in the (compound) feed industry will find here an answer to “what can ILVO do for me?” You’ll get a brief overview of relevant expertise, a...
Het Feed Design Lab
SMART-feeding
SMART-FEEDING Algemeen Vleeskuikens Leghennen Algemeen Met SMART-feeding wordt bedoeld dat de dieren worden gevoederd naargelang hun behoeften. Fasevoedering is hiervan een mooi voorbeeld, maar de laa...
Health and wellness effects of early feed for broiler chicks
The ATHLETIC CHICKS project aims to develop a more optimal feeding strategy for young chicks in the broiler sector, so that they grow into stronger and healthier animals with less need for antibiotics...
Microalgae protein ingredients for the food and feed of the future
Linked Sectors: Feed Production
...sible, sustainable, protein-rich ingredients based on microalgae, for processing in food and animal feed. ProFuture brings together 32 European partners from research, production industry and trade...
Protein extraction from lucerne and clover for broiler and pig feed
Linked Sectors: Feed Production
...fresh and ensiled alfalfa and clover were tested. After finalizing this protocol, we determined the feed value of this protein for fattening pigs and chickens. We examined how the technique could b...
Implementation of circular raw materials in compound feeds for pigs, poultry and cattle
...d, the more alternative sources of protein become available, and the more sustainable the purchased feed can become. The Circfeed project works according to that law.
Prompt action in order to implement methane reducing feeding strategies in dairy
Linked Sectors: Feed Production
...ductionThe demonstrative project METHEEN demonstrates in a guided manner the application of the feed measures currently approved within the Covenant Enteric Emissions Cattle (CEER) on a number ...
From black box to slaughter hook: Rational feeding of pigs via data sharing
Linked Sectors: Feed Production
Can pig farmers get a better grip on feed costs - and is that cost commensurate with the quality (nutritional composition) of the feed?
Future Flemish Pigs: More sustainable pork using feed based on by-products
...ntroductionIt is technically possible as well as feasible to raise pigs for slaughter using pig feed that consists exclusively of by-products (zero feed/food competition). Animal performance an...
Microbial fermentation as a protein source in food and feed applications for Flemish companies
Linked Sectors: Feed Production
Valorizing the different (residual) streams from microbial fermentation processes into high-quality food ingredients or feed components
Insect meal and whey powder: new potential protein sources for 100% organic layer feed
Linked Sectors: Feed Production
Two potential sources of protein for feed in the organic poultry sector, insect meal and milk whey powder, are currently underutilized.
Toward a farm-economic and environmental win-win by more efficient feed use in pig farming
Which practical and affordable measures and strategies can pig farmers use to know and improve the feed conversion ratio in the future?
Evaluation of on farm toasting techniques to enable the use of local protein sources in animal feeds
Linked Sectors: Feed Production
...farmers who grow their own protein crops know that toasting (soy)beans results in remarkably higher feed efficiency. This project investigates how this toasting process can be done using a local ma...
Boxwood moth
... of a boxwood leaf from the underside, with three young three young buxus caterpillars on it. Some feeding damage can already be seen on the leaves. The caterpillars are x cm big.Photo desc...
Precision fishing
...cosystem manager could use. Operationality and precision Skippers and shipowners need quick feedback on the economic performance of their vessel - think of yield per trip, catch composition...
Aquaculture at sea
...ate goal of mariculture, we currently distinguish four types: mariculture as a function of food and feed, mariculture as a function of coastal protection, mariculture as a function of pharmaceutica...
Agroforestry
...ic leaves that force out some of the intermediate cropsAnd interesting crops include: Grain and feed cropsFruit, berries, ornamental plants, or aromatic/medicinal plantsBiomass-producing cropsS...
Precision livestock farming
...le simultaneously ensuring animal welfare and health and reducing the use of raw materials, such as feed, with the same or better results. Adoption of precision livestock farming Nat...
Food: balanced and healthy
...an we ensure that nutritionally adequate food can be produced in sufficient quantities to feed the growing global population, at a fair and accessible price, within a sustainable context? Moreover,...
Soil health
...systems. A (healthy) soil provides numerous ecosystem services: Production of food, feed and raw materialsStoring carbon (climate mitigation)Infiltration of water during hea...
Gut health
...ding and innovation are therefore necessary. This stimulates companies to develop innovative animal feed applications. ILVO joins them in their search and developed a multidisciplinary intestinal h...
Soil improvement with organic fertilizers
Organic residual flows Agricultural systems result in organic residual flows, such as crop and feed residues. Organic residual streams such as grass clippings, heather chippings and shredded wood ...
Stray voltage in the dairy barn
...bot, 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 first touch the ...
Authenticity of food products
...clude the detection of fraud in vegetable oil, coffee, cereals, meat and fish. Indeed, each food or feed product has a characteristic spectrum, a spectrometric fingerprint that allows identificatio...
Ecosystem-oriented marine modeling and management
...nces can have short- or long-term effects and can be carried on throughout the ecosystem because of feedback loops. The saltwater medium provides a higher connectivity between the different compone...
Food: Food safety
...cts research on a wide range of chemical components in numerous animal- and plant-based food (and feed) matrices, such as primary raw materials, (semi-)manufactured products, ingredients, by-produc...
Alternatives to castration of piglets
...ated at 1-2 euros per carcass. Reduction of boar taint To avoid boar taint in intact boars, feeding strategies are very effective. Genetic selection is also possible and can most easily be ...
Biodiversity in and on the sea floor
...nt species in an ecosystem possess some biological functions. Examples of these functions include feeding mode, organism structure, organism mobility (sessile, mobile), soil encroachment (i.e. biot...
Feed as solution for the nitrogen crisis: Development of a tool to monitor low-protein rations in dairy cattle
Linked Sectors: Feed Production
Developing a sustainable potting soil based on green waste compost and other locally produced and available feedstock materials
...hobby market based on compost and other alternatives for peat? Which locally produced and available feedstock materials can be used? What are the properties of the currently applied growing medium ...
Optimizing nutrient cycles in the cattle sector by increasing human-edible protein efficiency through feed and enhancing nitrogen efficiency in cows.
...protein efficiency in cows to reduce their smaller ecological footprint. The (soy-based) protein in feed is not climate-friendly and, through the conversion of protein into ammonia in urine, increa...