Waiboerhoeve
Description
Public opinion on agriculture, horticulture and food supply is characterised by terms such as animal-unfriendly, high environmental impact, scale expansion out of control with major threats to the living environment and public health.
Time for a broad public discussion, according to State Secretary Henk Bleker of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation.
Former Minister of VROM and Queen's Commissioner in Groningen, Hans Alders will lead the broad public discussion. The State Secretary will write a Cabinet vision letter on mega-stalls in October 2011.
The ideal time to hold a number of meetings on modern livestock farming in the period May - October 2011.
As part of the main theme "Modern agriculture, horticulture and food" of the Environmental Technology/Food&Green department, the board is organising a meeting together with the Waiboerhoeve on Tuesday 17 May 2011.
The Waiboerhoeve, Practical Centre for Dairy Farming, is one of Livestock Research Wageningen University's knowledge development pilot farms.
After an introduction and presentation, there will be a visit to the dairy barns.
The following topics will be discussed:
- Objectives of the Waiboerhoeve, practical centre for livestock farming.
- Research into optimising the quality of silage: growing, harvesting, storage and preservation.
- Measuring ammonia emissions from various "grid" floors.
- Research into the relationship between hoof care and types of floor.
- Feeding trials for external farms, feed rations and feed dosing.
- Milk production, milk quality, milking robots and automatic milking parlours.
- Types of barns for dairy cattle and climate control in the barn.
- Manure processing.
- Large-scale dairy farming, mega-stalls and economic facets and profitability.
- Future perspectives and sustainability profile
13.30 h Reception with coffee/tea
14.00-15.15 h Presentation by Mr Bloemert
15.15-15.30 h Departure to the Waiboerhoeve stables
15.30-16.45 h Guided tour in groups
16.45-17.00 h After discussion
17.00 h End of visit and departure
Location
Wisentweg 55, 8219 PL Lelystad, tel. 0320-293478
Organiser
Sustainable Technology
Name and contact details for information
André Dijkmans Bert Vonk