- 01/07/2020
The period around weaning is a difficult, critical phase for piglets. On many farms then, we see problems...
- 01/09/2019
Measuring is knowing in pig farming and that certainly applies to carcass quality too. Today, carcass quality is expressed as percentage...
- 01/06/2017
Precision Livestock Farming (PLF for short) stands for real-time and continuous fully automated monitoring and management of animals by...
- 01/04/2017
From an economic point of view, pig farming remains an important sector within Flemish agriculture and horticulture. However, margins are...
- 01/01/2016
In pig farming, weaning remains a critical period characterised by reduced feed intake and growth of the...
- 01/01/2016
Climate is the average weather condition over a period of several decades or longer. An important parameter in this is...
- 01/04/2015
Feed costs in pig farming account for 70-80% of total production costs. Part of the feed...
- 01/06/2014
The demonstration project 'Week systems: choice as a function of profitability and labour' for the Sustainable Agriculture Development Department of the Ministry of...
- 01/01/2014
About 10 million fattening pigs were slaughtered in Belgium in 2016. It is important that these pigs grow up in optimal...
- 01/05/2013
How important is final bear choice for farm performance? An IWT research project by KU Leuven and the...
