Organic farming is increasingly promoted as a means to reduce the environmental impact of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and antibiotics in conventional dairy systems. These factors potentially affect the microbial communities of the production stages (soil, silage, dung, and milk) of …

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is actually discussed at the European level. The impact of the new CAP will be important for European dairy farmers. Having knowledge into it is important in order to know what farmers are expecting for the future CAP reform. Moreover, the main objective was to understand …

Een groep Friese biologische boeren wil de meerwaarde van de biologische manier van boeren beter voor het voetlicht brengen. Bovendien willen ze elkaar scherp houden om het nog beter te doen.

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 …

Wereldwijd wordt onze agrofood sector als toonaangevend gezien. Deze positie is te danken aan zowel het grote innovatievermogen als de hoge en eiciënte productiviteit. Tegelijkertijd staat de sector onder druk door ontwikkelingen in de EU en op de wereldmarkt, maar ook door beleid en regelgeving als …

Dairy Farmers in the Ziway-Hawassa milk shed have different knowledge, experience, assets that enable them to adjust themselves from various vulnerabilities and continue operating. This knowledge, experiences and assets help them to be more resilient by improving their adoptive capacities. However, asset …

Understanding the effects of GHG emissions, cost and benefit analysis within the dairy farming system has become an important concern with respect to food security. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of climate-smart practices in the dairy farming systems centred on economic …

Dairy farming in Punakha District is kept mainly for subsistence; however, the trend is picking up towards commercialisation. The demand for dairy products in the market is also increasing with high marketing scope, mainly from urban settlement and neighbouring district. However, the concept of the formal …

Small scale farmers in Kenya face low milk yields from dairy cows. One of the causes is the low quality and quantity of roughage on small-scale farms. Overall in all Kenyan farming systems the dairy production is influenced by seasonal fluctuation of roughage production. Next to this it is known that …

Dutch dairy farms feel an increasing need to improve grassland production and grassutilization while at the same time reducing the environmental impact because of sustainability goals, legislation on manure management and recent intended policies.