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Livestock Research
Fundamental, innovative research and practical solutions for sustainable and profitable livestock farming
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News
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Breed4Food consortium appoints Bernard De Geus as Director
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Safeguarding welfare of farmed fish- A novel and pro-active approach for turbot and Senegalese sole
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Funds available for launching SmartFarming spin-offs
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International symposium “we’ll 2013”: How to feed the world in 2050?
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Three Genomic Selection papers in the February issue of Genetics
Projects
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E-learning programme for compliance with requirements relating to stall enrichment and tail docking
The objective of this research project is to produce an e-learning programme, leaving employees of the nVWA better informed about the scientific...
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Identification of biological characteristics that predict adaptation (and maladaptation) in pigs
Health and/or behavioural problems in pigs may be a consequence of maladaptive responses by the animals to their environment. Those responses may...
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International Dairy Nutrition Symposium 2013: Feed efficiency in dairy cattle
Feed efficiency is an important aspect for sustainable dairy farming in the future. Not only in an economical but also in an environmental...
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Potential of using leftovers to reduce the environmental impact in animal production PhD project by Hannah van Zanten. Livestock production worldwide faces two challenges simultaneously. The first challenge is to meet the growing...
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Bio-Business: Identification of human factors in lameness scoring of dairy cows
PhD project by Andrés Schlageter Tello. Lameness is the biggest unsolved problem of animal welfare in dairy farms. This project aims to develop an...
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Genome wide breeding
Genomic selection is becoming the state-of-the art method for breeding and selection in the breeding industry. In theory, the newly available genome...
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Functional interpretation of metabolomics and transcriptomics data
Technological developments in recent years have led to increasingly larger data sets with good quality information to characterize samples and...
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International symposium “we’ll 2013”: How to feed the world in 2050?
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A two-day event entitled “we’ll 2013” will bring together scientists, trend watchers, visionary farmers and market specialists to contribute their...
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International Dairy Nutrition Symposium 2013: Feed efficiency in dairy cattle
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To highlight the various aspects of feed efficiency in dairy farming, seven experts from the Netherlands and abroad will present their vision on...