PVL's projects
Het Coördinatiecentrum voor Voorlichting en Begeleiding duurzame Bemesting (CVBB) is een vzw opgericht als één van de flankerende maatregelen van MAP4. CVBB heeft als doel de landbouwers te informeren en begeleiden op vlak van bemesting. Het CVBB wil bijdragen aan een betere waterkwaliteit om zo mee de doelstellingen van de Vlaamse mestwetgeving te behalen. Het […]
The main objective of this demonstration project was to demonstrate that a combination of protein-rich feeds with phase feeding can lead to higher use of the total share of home-grown protein-rich feeds, on the one hand, and a reduction in total protein input and nitrogen excretion in fattening pig production, on the other. This may reduce dependence on the
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The increasing litter size in pig farming has greatly boosted reproductive performance in recent decades.However, increasing litter size has caused a decline in birth weight. The litter number has also increased so much that more piglets are regularly born than a sow has weaned. The number of piglets a sow has more than she
Possibilities of different sperm diluents in pig farming Artificial insemination has long been a well-known technique. Research into artificial insemination was first reported back in the 1400s. In the meantime, the principle has been regularly discussed in experiments on various animal species and even humans. Yet it took until the