BovINE
BovINE Event: BovINE Webinar: ‘Tools to measure and communicate high animal welfare standards on beef farms’ 22nd November 2021 – 17:00 CET Online About this webinarLeader of the BovINE Animal Health and Welfare thematic working group, Frank Zerbe, was joined by expert guest speakers Kornel Cimer, Beatrice Mounaix and George Stilwell for the latest BovINE […]
BovINE Event: BovINE’s 2nd Transnational Meeting 2nd December 2021 Online This online meeting, hosted by BovINE’s Estonian partner Liivimaa Lihaveis, will take place virtually on the 2nd December 2021. The aim of this event is to bring together beef farmers, advisors, suppliers, researchers and policymakers to share knowledge and exchange ideas to improve the sustainability […]
Building bridges between thematic networks By Richard Lynch, Teagasc A Thematic Network is a particular format of multi-actor project promoted by EIP-AGRI and funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme to work on a specific theme. Its principal aim is to bring people/actors from science and practice together to co-create readily implementable, useful and practical outputs. There […]
Sustainable beef: what is the role of grass-based production systems? By Richard Lynch, Teagasc – Ireland The European beef sector produces meat to feed a large growing global population, whilst producing many other valuable products and services to the wider public. However, at present, it faces significant challenges relating to economic, social and environmental sustainability, […]
BovINE Demonstrations in Belgium by Dirk Audenaert, Bovine Network Manager for Belgium During the summer of 2021, we have visited several beef farms to make a film about good practices that were chosen in the BovINE network last year. The complete films will be on the Bovine website in autumn 2021. In June we […]
SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK FARMING:
THE ACTION PLAN FOR BEEF CATTLE BREEDING
Livestock and Precision Farming webinar for knowledge and networking exchange between Canadian and European bovine stakeholders BY VIRGINIA RESCONI & JAKELINE ROMERO, UNI ZARAGOZA Awareness of BovINE is increasingly spreading and the project is gaining recognition internationally. Recently, partners were invited to participate to one of the three virtual webinars: Livestock and Precision Farming, within the frame: “Enhancing Canada Europe Collaboration: Sustainable Agriculture”. The webinar aimed to strengthen ties between Canada and Europe, joining […]
BovINE participation in a congress in Spain: presentation of the project and a poster with data from a Demo By Virginia Resconi & Jakeline Romero, Uni Zaragoza Virginia Resconi, leader of the BovINE WP5, presented a live video (in Spanish) to publicise the project in a Spanish National Congress about Animal Production (XIX Jornadas sobre Producción Animal), which was held the 1st and 2nd June 2021 in an on-line format due […]
2021 Farm Demo: Precision Feeding On the 21st of May, the third demonstration took place within the scope of the BovINE project organized by the Portuguese team. This action will took place at the Mertolenga Performance Test Station at Currais e Simalhas farm, managed by ACBM, and was carried out in partnership with BovMais Operational […]
BovINE Demo Farms in Portugal BY JOSÉ M. M. PAIS, BOVINE NETWORK MANAGER FOR PORTUGAL On 25th March, Portuguese based BovINE partners, Promert and FMV, started the local farm based demonstrations for 2021. The meeting in March took place at the JMPC farm located in MOITA, Portugal, and was attended by 10 breeders and 10 […]