Ruminants

The Ruminant Research Centre is located in Boxmeer, the Netherlands, where a dedicated group of researchers and several technicians with competencies in dairy and beef nutrition and feed management are working together. Besides an office, there is a research farm Kempens Hof and access to Nutreco laboratories.

 

An example of a recently developed product for Trouw Nutrition is Minlink – Maximum Care – Minimum Waste. A program to calculate the optimal mineral requirements on farm, so that a minimum of minerals is wasted in the environment and a maximum is of use to the animal.

 

 

A project on farm management level is Dairy Management Support (DMS). DMS gives objective critical control points that discuss important phases/activities in the life cycle of a cow (i.e. calf heifer rearing, dry period, milk production, reproduction, cow comfort, udder health and claw health). And these control points, based on scientific literature, form a system that makes it possible to do a HACCP analysis on a farm with an interdisciplinary approach.

 

Additional information of DMS can be found by clicking here.