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Light as a performance enhancer - Does beef farming need a light regime?

Posted: Tue 31st Aug, 2021
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Management, housing and environmental factors which affect animal welfare in rearing and finishing units

Demonstration: Light as a performance enhancer - Does beef farming need a light regime? (Estonia, webinar)

Posted: Tue 4th Oct, 2022
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Management, housing and environmental factors which affect animal welfare in rearing and finishing units

Economic Benefits of Genetic Improvement

Posted: Tue 24th Nov, 2020
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Author: Magda Fontes
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Category: Economic Planning Tools for Beef Cattle Farms

The French national production cost method for grazing animals

Posted: Thu 26th Nov, 2020
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Author: Magda Fontes
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Category: Economic Planning Tools for Beef Cattle Farms

Livestock Farm Networks, a system at the center of French farming development

Posted: Thu 26th Nov, 2020
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Author: Magda Fontes
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Category: Economic Planning Tools for Beef Cattle Farms

Demonstration: French tool COUPROD for calculation of production costs

Posted: Tue 23rd Nov, 2021
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Author: Kees de Roest
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Category: Economic Planning Tools for Beef Cattle Farms

Management of newborn calves with focus on supporting a strong immune system

Posted: Mon 14th Dec, 2020
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Health & Welfare of New Born Calves on Suckler Farms

Goal-oriented feeding for a corresponding age at first calving

Posted: Tue 8th Dec, 2020
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Guidelines of Peripartum Measures to Prevent Dystocia (problems at calving)

Prediction of parturition to improve farmer’s ability to assist cows at the time of delivery

Posted: Mon 23rd Nov, 2020
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Guidelines of Peripartum Measures to Prevent Dystocia (problems at calving)

Birth of oversized calves

Posted: Mon 30th Nov, 2020
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Guidelines of Peripartum Measures to Prevent Dystocia (problems at calving)

Prevention of ruminal acidosis

Posted: Thu 10th Dec, 2020
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Lameness in beef cattle

Fattening bulls on straw with automated bedding and feeding. The future in view.

Posted: Tue 1st Dec, 2020
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Lameness in beef cattle

Costs and benefits of rubber mats on concrete floors

Posted: Tue 23rd Nov, 2021
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Author: Kees de Roest
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Category: Lameness in beef cattle

Rubbermats on slats - the animal welfare version of slats?

Posted: Wed 16th Sep, 2020
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Author: Frank Zerbe
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Category: Lameness in beef cattle

Fattening bulls on slatted floor with perforated rubber mats. Alternative to straw litter.

Posted: Mon 30th Nov, 2020
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Lameness in beef cattle

Evaluating animal welfare on farms

Posted: Wed 16th Dec, 2020
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Recognising Causes of Lameness & Pain - Indicators & Different Assessment Criteria

Demonstrations on automated weight in Belgium, Ireland and Poland

Posted: Fri 4th Feb, 2022
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Animal Monitor Tools in Fattening Units

Forage intake in grazing cattle with an acoustic monitoring system

Posted: Wed 13th Jan, 2021
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Animal Monitor Tools in Fattening Units

Demonstration: An automated weight system implemented in fattening farms Spain

Posted: Mon 20th Dec, 2021
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Animal Monitor Tools in Fattening Units

A virtual fence pilot innovation for mountain farms (e-barana)

Posted: Mon 22nd Jun, 2020
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Author: Virginia Resconi
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Category: Animal Monitor Tools in Fattening Units

Smart Farms: individual herd monitoring

Posted: Wed 23rd Dec, 2020
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Animal Monitor Tools in Fattening Units

Demonstration: Monitoring of grass quantity and quality consumed by suckler cows

Posted: Mon 7th Nov, 2022
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Animal Monitor Tools in Fattening Units

Prediction of beef palatability using the Meat Standard Australia (MSA) system

Posted: Sat 28th Nov, 2020
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Author: Virginia Resconi
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Category: The Use of Available Data (Traceability) to Improve Performance & Meat Quality

A dairy–beef index (DBI) to rank beef bulls for use on dairy females

Posted: Mon 19th Apr, 2021
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Author: Virginia Resconi
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Category: The Use of Available Data (Traceability) to Improve Performance & Meat Quality

GHG mitigation in fodder production for beef cattle

Posted: Tue 15th Dec, 2020
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Strategies to Reduce the Enteric Emission of Beef Cattle

Using the BDGP (Beef Data and Genomics Programme) and BEEP-S (Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme-Suckler)

Posted: Mon 14th Dec, 2020
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Strategies to Reduce the Enteric Emission of Beef Cattle

CAP'2ER tool

Posted: Fri 11th Dec, 2020
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Strategies to Reduce the Enteric Emission of Beef Cattle

The use of drones in agriculture to help reduce the climatic impact

Posted: Thu 3rd Dec, 2020
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Reduction of Nutrient & Pesticide Leaching to Improve Quality of Surface Water

Precision irrigation on crop for animal feeding

Posted: Tue 15th Dec, 2020
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Reduction of Nutrient & Pesticide Leaching to Improve Quality of Surface Water

Reducing nutrient losses during storage of manure by improvement of storage conditions or composting

Posted: Tue 11th May, 2021
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Reduction of Nutrient & Pesticide Leaching to Improve Quality of Surface Water

Burren Winterage Festival: Cattle are important elements of the cultural heritage of Ireland and many other countries

Posted: Thu 14th Oct, 2021
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Author: Magda Fontes
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Category: Initiatives to improve the image of and promote the sustainable consumption of beef

Welfare Quality - Animal Welfare Certification

Posted: Thu 14th Oct, 2021
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Author: Magda Fontes
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Category: Initiatives to improve the image of and promote the sustainable consumption of beef

Marketing in beef cattle production

Posted: Thu 14th Oct, 2021
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Author: Magda Fontes
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Category: Initiatives to improve the image of and promote the sustainable consumption of beef

French meetings "MADE in VIANDE"

Posted: Thu 2nd Dec, 2021
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Author: Floriane PROST
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Category: Initiatives to improve the image of and promote the sustainable consumption of beef

Cattle as object of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Posted: Tue 12th Oct, 2021
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Author: Kees de Roest
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Category: Initiatives to improve the image of and promote the sustainable consumption of beef

#FansdelVacuno campaign to promote beef consumption.

Posted: Wed 10th Nov, 2021
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Author: Paola Eguinoa
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Category: Initiatives to improve the image of and promote the sustainable consumption of beef

Compost barn for beef cattle

Posted: Tue 12th Oct, 2021
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Author: Kees de Roest
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Category: Examining economically efficient housing systems for beef cattle

Producing photovoltaic energy with the installation of panels on the roofs of livestock buildings

Posted: Thu 2nd Dec, 2021
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Author: Floriane PROST
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Category: Examining economically efficient housing systems for beef cattle

Demonstration: Considerations concerning the compost barn for beef cattle in Italy

Posted: Thu 8th Sep, 2022
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Author: Kees de Roest
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Category: Examining economically efficient housing systems for beef cattle

Obsalim – feed check with cards

Posted: Mon 30th Aug, 2021
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Simple labour-saving tools to measure and communicate high animal welfare standards on beef farms

Calf health scoring during purchasing (farmer assessment)

Posted: Tue 18th Jan, 2022
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Author: Marcin Gołębieski
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Category: Simple labour-saving tools to measure and communicate high animal welfare standards on beef farms

Demonstration: On-Farm-Scoring for Bovine Respiratory Disease

Posted: Thu 2nd Jun, 2022
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Simple labour-saving tools to measure and communicate high animal welfare standards on beef farms

Welfare indicators for young cattle and animal with no access to the outside, a complement to the Boviwell diagnosis

Posted: Tue 19th Oct, 2021
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Management, housing and environmental factors which affect animal welfare in rearing and finishing units

Calf and shed monitoring system: e-stado®

Posted: Tue 18th Jan, 2022
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Author: Marcin Gołębieski
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Category: Management, housing and environmental factors which affect animal welfare in rearing and finishing units

Feeding of animals before transport to slaughterhouse

Posted: Tue 2nd Nov, 2021
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Author: dirk audenaert
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Category: Animal feeding and stress on meat quality

Vitamin D3 supplementation of cattle diets 30 day before slaughter is efficacious to enhance total beef vitamin D activity

Posted: Wed 23rd Mar, 2022
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Animal feeding and stress on meat quality

Individual temperament evaluation in young bulls by an exit score from the squeeze chute

Posted: Sun 2nd Jan, 2022
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Author: José Pais
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Category: Animal feeding and stress on meat quality

Gently touching of beef calves early in life reduces stress at the abattoir

Posted: Mon 8th Nov, 2021
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Animal feeding and stress on meat quality

On-farm demonstration performed in Ireland on Standardized procedures for bull evaluation

Posted: Fri 28th Oct, 2022
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Optimizing the number of calves per cow per year in suckler beef herds

On-farm demonstration performed in Spain on Standardized procedures for bull evaluation

Posted: Fri 28th Oct, 2022
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Optimizing the number of calves per cow per year in suckler beef herds

Demonstration performed in Spain on Ovarian Synchronisation Protocols

Posted: Mon 7th Nov, 2022
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Optimizing the number of calves per cow per year in suckler beef herds

Optimizing the cow-calf performance in beef cattle through an adequate nutrition during early pregnancy

Posted: Tue 18th Jan, 2022
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Optimizing the number of calves per cow per year in suckler beef herds

Proposed standard procedure for bull evaluation in Spain: The VART guide

Posted: Wed 1st Dec, 2021
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Optimizing the number of calves per cow per year in suckler beef herds

DEMONSTRATION Carbon Crediting Ireland

Posted: Mon 26th Sep, 2022
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Reward schemes for farmers meeting environmental deliverables

Silvopastural systems

Posted: Thu 2nd Sep, 2021
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Carbon sequestration

A Targeted Scenario Analysis, future perspectives for sustainable agriculture in Estonia

Posted: Thu 2nd Sep, 2021
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Carbon sequestration

Increase of the proportion of grass in the ration during the finishing phase in favour of carbon sequestration

Posted: Tue 30th Nov, 2021
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Author: Karen Goossens
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Category: Carbon sequestration

Holistic Management and Carbon sequestration

Posted: Tue 7th Sep, 2021
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Carbon sequestration

Local producers' market in superstores

Posted: Mon 11th Jul, 2022
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Author: Magda Fontes
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Category: Methods to ensure a fairer distribution of the final price along the supply/food chain

Beef Producer Organisations: PriceWatch App

Posted: Fri 15th Jul, 2022
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Author: Magda Fontes
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Category: Methods to ensure a fairer distribution of the final price along the supply/food chain

Bord Bia Beef Market Tracker

Posted: Wed 27th Jul, 2022
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Author: Kevin Kinsella
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Category: Methods to ensure a fairer distribution of the final price along the supply/food chain

Co-operation between NGO Liivimaa Lihaveis and Linnamäe Meat Industry in meat marketing and education of farmers and consumers.

Posted: Mon 5th Sep, 2022
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Author: Airi Külvet
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Category: Methods to ensure a fairer distribution of the final price along the supply/food chain

Music to make cows less fearful during farm visits

Posted: Tue 31st May, 2022
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Author: Floriane PROST
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Category: Training in animal welfare for operators/farmers (handlers, transporters and slaughterhouses) and stress-free drive systems during weighing and transport in beef cattle

Training session for beef cattle transporters

Posted: Tue 19th Jul, 2022
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Author: Alexander Riek
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Category: Training in animal welfare for operators/farmers (handlers, transporters and slaughterhouses) and stress-free drive systems during weighing and transport in beef cattle

Cow goggles – Seeing the world through cows’ eyes

Posted: Fri 1st Apr, 2022
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Author: Karin von Deylen
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Category: Training in animal welfare for operators/farmers (handlers, transporters and slaughterhouses) and stress-free drive systems during weighing and transport in beef cattle

Mechanical Classification of carcases using video imaging analysis (VIA)

Posted: Tue 2nd Aug, 2022
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Author: Kevin Kinsella
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Category: Tools to evaluate the carcass and meat quality prior to and in the slaughterhouse 

A vision system for measuring eye muscle area, marbling score and intramuscular fat at the slaughterhouse

Posted: Mon 8th Aug, 2022
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Tools to evaluate the carcass and meat quality prior to and in the slaughterhouse 

Image processing method to predict beef tenderness

Posted: Mon 8th Aug, 2022
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: Tools to evaluate the carcass and meat quality prior to and in the slaughterhouse 

Advantages of the Angus breed in terms of meat marbling

Posted: Tue 19th Jul, 2022
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Author: Paola Eguinoa
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Category: On-farm strategies to increase/improve marbling/tenderness/colour in beef meat 

“Marbling window”: from 150 to 250 days of age

Posted: Mon 22nd Aug, 2022
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Author: Jakeline Romero
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Category: On-farm strategies to increase/improve marbling/tenderness/colour in beef meat 

Neogen genetic test implemented in an Angus farm in Estonia to increase beef marbling

Posted: Tue 30th Aug, 2022
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Author: Airi Külvet
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Category: On-farm strategies to increase/improve marbling/tenderness/colour in beef meat 

DECiDE

Posted: Wed 27th Jul, 2022
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Tools for calculating and improving environmental sustainability on beef cattle farms

The Carbon Navigator

Posted: Wed 27th Jul, 2022
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Author: Kevin Kinsella
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Category: Tools for calculating and improving environmental sustainability on beef cattle farms

Cap2er

Posted: Mon 29th Aug, 2022
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Tools for calculating and improving environmental sustainability on beef cattle farms

Improvement of pollinating insects

Posted: Tue 19th Jul, 2022
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Author: Paola Eguinoa
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Category: Methods to enhance biodiversity on beef cattle farms without the need for large investment

Non-intensive utilization of farm land for production of animal feed

Posted: Tue 26th Jul, 2022
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Author: alessandro mazzenga
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Category: Methods to enhance biodiversity on beef cattle farms without the need for large investment

Farming with Barn Owls

Posted: Tue 2nd Aug, 2022
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Author: Kevin Kinsella
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Category: Methods to enhance biodiversity on beef cattle farms without the need for large investment

Biostimulants

Posted: Thu 25th Aug, 2022
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Methods to enhance biodiversity on beef cattle farms without the need for large investment

Biotex

Posted: Mon 29th Aug, 2022
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Methods to enhance biodiversity on beef cattle farms without the need for large investment

Mixed cropping systems

Posted: Thu 9th Jun, 2022
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Methods to enhance biodiversity on beef cattle farms without the need for large investment

Drones to map meadow birds

Posted: Thu 9th Jun, 2022
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Author: Riet Desmet
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Category: Methods to enhance biodiversity on beef cattle farms without the need for large investment