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We develop innovative animal and environment-friendly agricultural systems with solid expertise in precision livestock farming, emissions, energy use, spray application techniques, and fertilizer spreaders. We integrate these novelties into innovative production systems. We combine technical competence with mathematical and IT-based methods. We build prototypes and develop experimental setups in our own workshop.

We study the complexity of choices made to increase sustainability. How does a competitive and sustainable production system function within an environmental, market and policy context? What makes it shock-resistant? We study the resilience of agricultural systems, develop decision support tools and models, study collaboration in the agro-food chain, create sustainability assessment tools and study learning processes in farmer groups.

In this applied scientific research, ILVO focuses on sustainable cattle, pig, poultry and rabbit husbandry. Our first focus is nutritional physiology research to match the nutrient supply as closely as possible to the animal’s needs. Closely related research studies how to minimise the excretion of nutrients into the environment. Our functional nutrition research focuses not only on improving the health of the animal, but also strives to ...