R4D best practice - 87. Strategies to reduce methane emissions
R4D Best practice - 4. Hay Milk Production
R4D best practice - 146. Automatic Feeding System
R4D Best practice - 127. Cross breeding with beef cattle to increase the value of surplus youngstock
R4D Best practice - 74. Use of rubber-coated flooring in alleys improves and stimulates safe cow
R4D Best practice - 147. Automated calf feeding to encourage calf growth and healthy cows
R4D best practice - 68. Nurse cow
R4D best practice - 114. Efficient use of water for cleaning waiting areas
R4D best practice - 101. Cattle bedding with solid part of slurry
R4D best practice - 98. Milk pre-cooling
R4D best practice - 96A. Explore the potential of renewable energy production on farm (hydrogen)
R4D best practice - 119. breed indexes and genetic selection (A2 milk)
R4D best practice - 71. Sandbedding in freestalls
R4D best practice - 99. Develop biogas plant
R4D best practice - 173B. Maximizing the use of high quality grass silage
R4D best practice - 151. Reduce silage storage losses with in-line bale wrapping
R4D best practice - 96A. The advantages of micro-biogas
R4D best practice - 69. Animal welfare barn with access to outside
R4D best practice - 99. Biogasbased electricity production on dairy farm
R4D best practice - 6. Development of an organic cheese factory to adapt to the market
R4D best practices - 170. Benefits of multispecies swards
R4D best practice - 123. Cross breeding with dairy breeds
R4D best practice - 71. Sand as deep bedding in cubicles to improve health, welfare and productivity
R4D best practice - 38. Les groupes d'échanges entre éleveurs
R4D best practice - 173A. Conduite d'un système herbager avec des robots de traite
R4D best practice - 210A. Insemination strategy: inseminate with the right straw
R4D best practice - 173B. Dairy nutrition
R4D best practice - 186. Increasing production efficiency
R4D best practice - 63. Reduction in workload
R4D best practice - 173A. Increasing grass grown to build a resilient dairy farm system
R4D best practice - 173B. Measuring pasture to support a resilient dairy production system
R4D best practice - 199. Colostrum management
R4D best practice - 12. On Farm Milk Processing
R4D best practice - 69. Calf barn ventilation
R4D best practice - 117. Maximum automation for maximum efficiency
R4D best practice - 170. Resilient Grassland Management
R4D best practice - 102. Nutrient Management
R4D best practice - 174.Improve protein self-sufficiency through improvement of grassland management
R4D farm video - 22. GAEC des deux vallées
R4D best practice - 120. Genotyping of calves
R4D best practice - 6. On farm milk processing and direct sales
R4D best practice - 140. Multispecies swards (MSS) pasture & red clover silage
R4D best practice - 119. Crossbreeding to improve milk composition
R4D Cross visits: Overview 2021-2024
Tournée provinciale - Exoskelet
R4D best practice - 146. Automatic Feeding System
R4D best practice - 179. Grassland Managament
Freewalk Housing system
R4D best practice - 12. Milk processing and direct marketing on Mountain family farm
Farm visit - Marcin Gwizdala's
Group housing of calves
R4D best practice - 41. (Re)educate and inform the (young) public about farming (Fro de Bauer)
Use of recycled manure solids as bedding material
Cow-calf contact system
Use of an exoskelet
High welfare floor at the pilofarm Simon Čretnik
Simon Čretnik keeps 55 cows in a very innovative freestall barn with a high welfare floor.
R4D Pilotfarm Visit - Toni Kukenberger (Slovenia)
Discover Toni Kukenberger's Slovenian farm, his practices and his plans for the future in terms of resilience.
R4D Pilotfarm Visit - Jakob Dolinar (Slovenia)
Discover Jakob Dolinar's Slovenian farm, his practices and his plans for the future in terms of resilience.
3rd European R4D workshop and cross-visits in Slovenia
More than a hundred participants, including farmers, advisors and other professionals from the dairy sector coming from the 15 European countries involved in the project met in July for 4 days in Slovenia for the third R4D European workshop and cross visits.
Five Slovenian farms were visited and the participants had the opportunity to share their opinions and discuss the practices they found interesting or not. The participants were surprised to discover dairy farms that were completely different from those in their country: mountain farms, very modern farms, farms located in the middle of villages, and many others.
During the European workshop, the farmers were able to present the solutions implemented on their farms. The discussions, discoveries and encounters were very inspiring, helping to strengthen collaboration between the participating countries and gather a lot of ideas to improve the resilience of dairy systems.
Five Slovenian farms were visited and the participants had the opportunity to share their opinions and discuss the practices they found interesting or not. The participants were surprised to discover dairy farms that were completely different from those in their country: mountain farms, very modern farms, farms located in the middle of villages, and many others.
During the European workshop, the farmers were able to present the solutions implemented on their farms. The discussions, discoveries and encounters were very inspiring, helping to strengthen collaboration between the participating countries and gather a lot of ideas to improve the resilience of dairy systems.
R4D Best Practice - 209A Measuring young stock
Dirk and Griet Vandecandelaere keep 110 dairy cows. They have a very efficient young stock management. In order to control the growth of the heighers they measure their weight on a regular basis. This allows them to reach the first calving age at 24 months. Subtitles EN
R4D Best practice - 173A Handeled NIR Spectrometers
Pilot farmer Steven and Fien van Parys
Automatic Feed Pusher
Automatic Feed Pusher help to reduce workload and increase feed intake of dairy cows. This innovative technology is applied on the R4D Pilotfarm Soc. Agr. Cervi Ciboldi in Italy.
NDAkis Meeting in Catalonia
NDAkis Meeting between the Basque Country and Catalonia was held in Catalonia to share knowledge and experiences in the dairy cattle sector.
Farm Andrew Purcell in Ireland
R4D in Ireland
Pilot farm Brian McCracken
Pilot farm Ian McClelland
National Dairy Akis Meeting France
Exchange on Soutions and Innovations
Resilience for Dairy Video
Project presentation video...