Videos feeding and slurry processing at KTC De Marke
Monday, 6 February 2012Within the DAIRYMAN framework KTC De Marke produced two illustrative videos on the feeding of dairy cows and on the handling and processing of the produced slurry. Both videos last about three minutes and are English sub-titled. Step by step they...
How to combine efficiency and pleasure in your work on a dairy farm
Tuesday, 31 January 2012In December 2011 the Flemish pilot farmers discussed the aspect of labour on the dairy farm. The size of the farms, the number of cows and the resulting workload keeps increasing, while labour in Flanders is still very much family oriented. Our...
Walloon farmers learn advantages grass-legumes associations
Monday, 30 January 2012In November a number of Walloon DAIRYMAN pilot famers learned about the advantages of grass-legumes associations. UCL university (Université Catholique de Louvain) staff demonstrated that more legumes in the sward improve the quality and the...
Students learn importance of young stock management
Monday, 5 December 2011To make agricultural students aware of the importance of young stock management, the teachers of the Lycée Technique Agricole visited the Dairyman pilot farm Leider for a practice lesson. The students measured the heart girth perimeters of all...
