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BovINE publishes magazine focusing on beef farming and sustainability The BovINE project is delighted to announce the publication of the BovINE Magazine on beef farming and sustainability.  The 16-page magazine summarises the project’s organisation and approach together with the knowledge...

BovINE Project’s Public & Approved Deliverables Now available on the website A number of BovINE’s project deliverables of interest to actors and stakeholders approved and cleared for public access are now available to view and download on the BovINE website. ...

BovINE Catalogue of ‘on farm’ Practice Abstracts freely available on the website An accessible PDF available to download containing all the ‘on farm’ Practice Abstracts (PAs)  developed by the BovINE project network and organised according to the four BovINE themes...

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...

9th International Beef Forum – 27th January 2023 BovINE’s partner – the Polish Beef Association – invites you to join them along with the Beef Sector Council and co-organiser, the Federation of Agricultural Producers Union, at the 9th International Beef Forum ‘Sustainable...

BovINE gets its message across on beef farming and sustainability Success for BovINE’s final dissemination conference in Brussels Brussels, 1 December 2022: Over 250 delegates from the beef farming community across Europe gathered online to hear from BovINE partners, whilst...

BovINE partners gather in Pamplona to share innovative solutions to help drive sustainability on beef farms across Europe On 9 November 2022, BovINE partners gathered from across 9 European countries, in Pamplona, Spain to attend the project’s final two-day General...

BovINE Event: Irish National Beef Event – 2022 Tuesday Oct 25th, 2022, at 8.00pm Online Register here Presentations and discussions on: The Beef Innovation Network Europe – Maeve Henchion, Teagasc The importance of innovation on beef farms –Pearse Kelly, Teagasc...

BovINE represented at the Final Stakeholder Event of the GenTORE Project By Virginia Resconi & Jakeline Romero, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain BovINE Network was invited by GenTORE project to their Final Stakeholder Event, called ‘Match Fit Cows: Tools to optimise...

BovINE Solutions presented at Academic Animal Science Congress in Brazil By Jakeline Romero, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Spanish partners from the BoviNE project were present at the “42o Congresso Paranaense dos Estudantes de Zootecnia” held in Maringá, Brazil on 14th...

BovINE Knowledge Hub Awareness Initiative The BovINE Project recently launched the BKH Awareness Initiative, running from 12th September to 31st October 2022, to highlight the wealth of validated knowledge hosted on the BovINE Knowledge Hub.   Good Practices and Research Innovations...

BovINE highlights ‘hot topics’ in series of live webinars The BovINE project has delivered a series of 12 live webinars focused on discussing ‘hot topics’ identified through priority topics and selected Good Practices and Research Innovations. All webinar recordings are now...

BovINE partners visit family farms in Wachtberg, Germany BovINE partners and their invited beef farmers and actors had the unique opportunity to visit two family-run beef cattle farms whilst visiting Germany for the 3rd Annual General Assembly. BovINE partner, BRS,...

BovINE shares innovative technologies directly with Irish farmers at Farm Open Day to help drive sustainability By Richard Lynch, BovINE Project Manager, Teagasc, Ireland A recent demonstration Farm Open Day, held on 26th July at Tullamore, Co Offaly, was attended...

BovINE at Teagasc Grange Beef Open Day By Richard Lynch, Teagasc Ireland On Tuesday the 5th July 2022 Teagasc, an agricultural research, advisory and education body in Ireland held its bi-annual open day for those involved in the beef farming....

BovINE Webinar: Marbling in European beef cattle 27th June 2022 Online Leaders of the Production Efficiency and Meat Quality Thematic Working Group, Virginia Resconi and Jakeline Romero, will be joined by experts Jean-François Hocquette, Isabelle Legrand, Aubert Nicolazo de Barmon and Ryan Law for this webinar focusing on Marbling...

BovINE European Network Technical Conference at La Garcipollera Experimental Farm By Virginia Resconi & Jakeline Romero, University of Zaragoza leer en español The technical conference of the BovINE project was held on 12 May 2022 at the experimental farm of...

BovINE partners to meet in Bonn for first time since project launch BovINE Project General Assembly BovINE project partners will meet next week in Bonn for the 3rd General Assembly. This will be the first time since the kick-off meeting...

FMV collaborate with Temple Grandin for two-day beef cattle event TEMPLE GRANDIN SHOW – Behavior and management in cattle, June 07-08 2022 Portugal BovINE’s Portuguese partner, FMV, is collaborating with world-renowned scientist and animal behaviourist, Dr. Mary Temple Grandin –...

BovINE Webinar: Autofeed 30th May 5pm CEST Online About this webinar Leader of the Socioeconomic Resilience Thematic Working Group, Kees De Roest, will be joined by experts Carlo Bisaglia, Massimo Brambilla, Paolo Rossi, Ambra Motta,  Aldo Calcante and Francesco Maria Tangorra for this webinar focusing on: 1. The available technologies for the...

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...

ERBS Deepens Understanding of Opportunities to Improve Environmental Impact of Beef Production By Rozanne Davis, ERBS Roundtable Climate change is the major challenge for humanity in the 21st century and to overcome it, reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is...

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...

BovINE Webinar: Why feed efficiency matters? 4th April 2022 Online Leaders of the Production Efficiency and Meat Quality Thematic Working Group, Virginia Resconi and Jakeline Romero will be joined by BovINE Portuguese Network Manager José Pais and experts Lisa Rumsfeld, Pablo Guarnido, Paul...

BovINE making an impact – the farmer view An interview with John Dunne By Kevin Kinsella, Agspace, Ireland John Dunne and his family run a suckler to beef production grassland farm selling steers and heifers at less than 24 months...

Collaboration between the European BovINE Network and the VART team in Spain BY VIRGINIA RESCONI & JAKELINE ROMERO, UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA  In 2017, a team was created in Spain to develop a consensual methodology for the Bull Breeding Soundness Evaluation...

BovINE European Network at the livestock farmers’ fair in Zaragoza, Spain By Virginia Resconi & Jakeline Romero, Universidad de Zaragoza The 15th International Fair for Animal Production (FIGAN) was held from 21 to 24 September 2021 in Zaragoza, Spain. The...

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...

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...

Smart Farming Seminar Sources and Solutions: The Link Between Our Soils & Water Quality By Richard Lynch BovINE’s partner, Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), is holding an online conference Wednesday 20th October from 8.30pm to 9.30pm (9:30-10:30 CET), discussing the findings from...

Delivering a Sustainable Beef Sector By KEVIN KINSELLA, IRISH NETWORK MANAGER At 8.00pm on Tuesday October 26th BovINE will hold its 2nd Irish National Beef Event on-line. Beef farmers and all stakeholders in the beef and livestock sector are invited...

Workshop Projeto BovINE By JOSÉ PAIS, ACBM Assunto: 2º Workshop do Projecto BovINE | 22 outubro 2021 das 14h às 16h30 Vai realizar-se, no dia 22 de outubro de 2021, a partir das 14h, o 2º Workshop no âmbito do...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

BovINE invited to participate in MIXED project workshop By José M. M. Pais, BovINE Network Manager for Portugal Last March, José M. M. Pais, BovINE’s Network Manager in Portugal, was invited by Consulai to participate in a workshop hosted by...

22nd June 2021 Sustainability of European Beef Farming: Challenges and Solutions 09:30-17:00 CEST The BovINE network invites you to register now for the project’s next public meeting, being held online on the 22nd June 2021. This meeting, organised and hosted...

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...

BovINE project: a great opportunity for French farmers to exchange good practices By Marie Penn, FNB & Helene Fuchey, IDELE The Fédération Nationale Bovine (FNB) is proud to be part of the BovINE project, the very first EU funded project...

Honourable mention for BovINE abstract at Congress in Brazil The Work Package 5 team, Production Efficiency & Meat quality from BovINE network obtained an honourable mention for their abstract submitted to an International Congress related to health and animal production in ruminants held virtually in September 2020 in Brazil. The abstract was one of the 20 publications awarded out of 96 accepted.    Congress...

BovINE project published in “Heraldo de Aragón”  “Heraldo de Aragón” is a Spanish newspaper distributed in Aragón, Spain. This newspaper has a column in order to disseminate information about science and in February 2021 a newsletter was published about the BovINE project providing information about the project, both...

Presenting BovINE at European Researcher’s Night On the 27th of November 2020, the BovINE project joined the European Researchers’ Night, an annual event with the objective of bringing researchers closer to citizens, so people can gain a better understanding of what researchers do and how it impacts their daily lives....

Developing the BovINE Network in Ireland by Kevin Kinsella Irish Network Manager BovINE is an EU funded network project focused on knowledge exchange to help address the challenges and drive sustainability in the beef sector. The project is connecting the beef...