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Harvesting of four years Breed&Feed4Food - On December 6th 2018 more than 50 persons participated in a meeting in Wageningen where highlights and results of 4 years Breed&Feed4Food were... -
Starch rich lactation diet improves recovery of lactating sows that are pregnant - Sows that are both gestating and lactating during a 6-week lactation period should be fed on a high feeding level. To reduce the loss of body weight,... -
Collaboration of feeding and breeding offers added value - In ‘Breed meets Feed’ feeding and breeding experts of the programmes Feed4Foodure, Breed@Feed4Food and Breed4Food met for the first time.... -
Cycle Test stimulates dialogue on closing the food cycle - Achieving sustainable agriculture and livestock farming requires closing the nutrient cycle, which in turn demands measures in policy and practice.... -
Successful Feed4Foodure Study Afternoon on Low Emission Livestock Feed - On March 2, over 50 participants attended a Feed4Foodure Study Afternoon on the project ‘Low Emission Livestock Feed’ in Wageningen, the... -
How to improve phosphorus efficiency in dairy cattle - The outline of the new legislation on “phosphate rights” for the Dutch dairy sector has just been finalized recently: the phosphate... -
Higher available phosphorus requirements determined in young male broilers - Wageningen UR Livestock Research conducted a doses-response study to determine the available P (aP) requirement of Ross 308 male broilers. Birds... -
FOS supplementation in suckling piglets impacts gut development - We studied the effect of a daily oral administration of fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) to suckling piglets during day 2 -14 after birth. This... -
Reducing copper in cattle manure: rumen by-pass copper - Copper (Cu) is one of the metals with a relatively high concentration in animal manure. By spreading the manure to fertilize our fields, Cu will... -
Wageningen updates the nearly twenty-year-old amino acid requirements of laying hens - Wageningen UR Livestock Research conducted a meta-analysis study to update the amino acid requirements of laying hens. The study provides amino acid...
