
Animal Production Systems Group
Research of the Animal Production Systems Group focuses on unravelling the complexity of concerns in livestock systems and exploring trade-offs and synergies of innovations regarding environmental impact, animal welfare, and economic viability, to design a more sustainable future.
Acting head
Do animals have a role in future food systems?
Animals can convert leftovers from arable land and grass resources into valuable food and other ecosystem services. By converting these biomass streams, animals recycle nutrients into the food system that otherwise would have been lost for food production, thereby contributing to a circular food system.
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Genotype-by-environment interaction in Holstein heifer fertility traits using single-step genomic reaction norm models
BMC Genomics 22 (2021)1. - ISSN 1471-2164 -
Maize–legume strip cropping effect on productivity, income, and income risk of farmers in northern Ghana
Agronomy Journal (2021). - ISSN 0002-1962 -
Yield gap analysis in dairy production systems using the mechanistic model LiGAPS-Dairy
Journal of Dairy Science (2021). - ISSN 0022-0302 -
Methane emission and milk production from jersey cows grazing perennial ryegrass–white clover and multispecies forage mixtures
Agriculture 11 (2021)2. - ISSN 2077-0472 - p. 1 - 17. -
ASAS-NANP symposium : digestion kinetics in pigs: the next step in feed evaluation and a ready-to-use modeling exercise
Journal of Animal Science 99 (2021)2. - ISSN 0021-8812