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 professional approach that characterizes ILVO. You can contact the Cattle Information Center for specific services and questions regarding collaboration.
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.
Two recently launched ILVO projects aim to get additional measures on the official PAS list, which will give livestock farmers new options to meet the sector-level target.
Based on one method that analyzes a number of well-chosen, easily measurable telltale components in milk, livestock farmers can easily and quickly monitor the metabolic health of cows and even predict...
Agricultural economists juxtaposed long-term production figures from all Flemish dairy farms with recorded weather events to assess the economic damage caused by heat.
A global comparison of the ecological footprint of milk, conducted by ILVO, shows that nowhere is milk produced as climatically efficient as in Flanders.
