The Netherlands has always played a pioneering role in livestock and arable farming innovations. There is currently a lot of interest in our country for 'climate-smart' solutions, with closed-loop agriculture being an excellent example.

Tijdens ons jaarlijks event HAS Expo hebben wij in 2020 de HAS Talkshow geïntroduceerd. Tijdens de HAS Talkshow 2020 praten 3 lectoren van HAS Hogeschool je in deze interactieve talkshow bij over de impact van Covid-19 op de sector agrofood en leefomgeving. De presentatie is in handen van alumna Froukje …

Lector Precision Livestock Farming, Lenny van Erp, neemt je in deze rondleiding mee langs een aantal onderzoeken die het lectoraat in studiejaar 2019/2020 heeft uitgevoerd met onze afstuderende studenten. Je wandelt digitaal langs onder meer de onderzoekslijnen melkvee, pluimvee, varkens en gezelschapsdieren …

Video 'Het Familievarken' is onderdeel van de webinar over innovatie, technologie en welzijn in de varkenshouderij. X3D is het Cluster voor digitaal monitoren van dierengedrag, diergezondheid en dierenwelzijn.

Animal welfare is a multidimensional phenomenon and currently its on-farm assessment requires complex, multidimensional frameworks involving farm audits which are time-consuming, infrequent and expensive. The core principle of precision agriculture is to use sensor technologies to improve the efficiency …

Cows housed indoors with cubicles are probably more restricted in their choice of lying posture and orientation compared with cows housed on pasture. We therefore studied lying postures on pasture in Uruguay and the Netherlands, and in cubicles in the Netherlands, also recording orientation on pasture …

This study was conducted to investigate dairy farming practices and gross margin at smallholder dairy farmer level to design a business model for scaling up climate-smart dairy in Ziway-Hawassa milk shed. 80 sample dairy farmers from five districts (which then categorised as urban and peri-urban dairy …

Is de Nederlandse melkveehouder klaar om met sensordata aan de slag te gaan? Die vraag is meerdere malen gesteld tijdens de themamiddag 'Blij met sensoren in de wei' op de Dairy Campus, georganiseerd door hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, Wageningen Livestock Research en het project 4DF4. Een eenduidige …

Insect farming has been suggested as a good alternative to conventional livestock farming for the growing demand of food and feed production. One of the most well-known edible insects is the silkworm, larva of the silk moth (Bombyx mori). This insect is reared because of their commercially valuable products, …