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Trial and Training Centre for Agriculture

Driven by collaboration and expertise, towards a future full of opportunities for livestock farming!

Status: ongoing projects
PigID - Info about the project Pig farmers face many challenges today: low margins, rising costs, stricter regulations around environment and

Independent advice

As an Agricultural Research and Training Centre, we provide independent advice, in consultation with and tailored to farmers. Our hands-on research supports our ability to include the latest innovations in our advice.

Private research

Are you working on an innovative development in livestock farming and looking for research facilities? PVL is happy to think along with you!

PVL's research focus

Discover our areas of expertise

Pigs

Individual data collection, both in sows, piglets and fattening pigs is our great strength, together with our flexibility in terms of trial designs, offers a wide range of research possibilities.

Cattle

We have 65 dairy cattle for research and training. The advanced milking robot enables individual feeding and monitoring. The new young cattle shed also offers research opportunities.

Crops

Without the crops, we cannot feed the cattle and pigs. Therefore, we also conduct thorough research on soil, fertilisation, crop protection, water quality, new crops

Visit our knowledge centre

PVL supports farmers and horticulturists with hands-on research for pig and cattle farming. Our centre of expertise has several components:

Get your Driving Licence G now

If you want to get your driving licence G through PVL, you need to take driving lessons. We will then also accompany you to the exam centre.

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Jouw stem telt: evalueer mee nieuwe PAS-maatregelen met potentieel voor jouw sector (pluimvee en varkens)

Your voice counts: help evaluate new PAS measures with potential for your sector (poultry and pigs)

28/08/2025    
All day
Objective RAMMONIA project and workshop The RAMMONIA project aims to broaden the choices for livestock farmers in ammonia emission reduction measures from livestock houses.During the workshop, the working principles of [...]
Jouw stem telt: evalueer mee nieuwe PAS-maatregelen met potentieel voor jouw sector (pluimvee en varkens)

Your voice counts: help evaluate new PAS measures with potential for your sector (poultry and pigs)

02/09/2025    
All day
Objective RAMMONIA project and workshop The RAMMONIA project aims to broaden the choices for livestock farmers in ammonia emission reduction measures from livestock houses.During the workshop, the working principles of [...]

Ongoing projects

On 10 March 2023, the Flemish government approved the decree finalising the programmatic approach to nitrogen (PAS). The decree on PAS came into force on 23 February 2024. The PAS aims to ensure...
Flemish pig farming is a high-performance sector that has to compete with a competitive world market under difficult conditions. These difficult conditions are strongly linked to the Flemish situation with, among other things, great pressure on...
There are many advantages to using circular fertilisers. Not only are they cheap, but they also contribute to the circularity of the sector. Growers, meanwhile, are also convinced by the application of...
This project aims to support dairy farmers in the right choice regarding different aspects of forage harvesting of grass, including grass clover and productive grass herbs, with a focus on nutrient management. This will be done through follow-up...

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