BovINE
BovINE magazines published in nine national languages Project news plus solutions to sustainability challenges feature in each issue Available in English, French, Italian, Estonian, German, Belgian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Polish, each of the four-page country magazines provides information about the current situation of cattle farming in each country, plus the grass root needs collected directly […]
FABulous Farmers By Riet Desmet , ILVO FABulous Farmers is a European project designed to support farmers in the transition to more agro-ecological practices on their farms. The project aims to reduce the reliance on external inputs, like chemical fertilisers and pesticides, by encouraging the use of methods and interventions that increase the farm’s Functional […]
BovINE Event: Webinar: Carbon Sequestration 25th April 2022 Online Leaders of the Environmental Sustainability Thematic Working Group, Riet Desmet and Karen Goosens will be joined by experts Paul Pardon, Josselin Andurand and Ennio Facq for this webinar focusing on Carbon Sequestration. Carbon sequestration is an important part of the reduction of greenhouse gases. In this, beef production systems can play an important role […]
Agroforestry in Flanders By Karen Goossens, ILVO This winter 20 extra Flemish farmers will start to work with agroforestry Today, about 100 farmers in Flanders are consciously working with agroforestry. That is the deliberate combination of a classic agricultural crop or keeping livestock with the cultivation of trees, shrubs or hedges on the same plot. […]
BovINE presentation at the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP) conference By Riet Desmet Riet Desmet, co-lead of the BovINE WP6- Environmental Sustainability, presented at the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP) conference, which aims to promote the advancement of scientific research, sustainable development and production systems. The 72nd congress was held in Davos, from […]
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 […]
Reducing nutrient losses during storage of manure by improvement of storage conditions or composting By Koen Willekens & Riet Desmet, ILVO In Belgian beef production systems, finishing beef stables are bedded with straw, resulting in a solid manure that is classified as such, i.e., having a dry matter content of minimum 20%. In the previous […]