Half an hour from Expo, a journey through the animal husbandry of the future

Presented the DairyFarm project, a journey into the animal husbandry of the future, led by the Lodi Technology Park and presenting the best innovative solutions for sustainable dairy farming, combining research and application, showing them directly on the farm.

Dairyfarm sees among its partners research centers, but above all some of the leading companies that make innovation in the barn their mission.

Innovation in animal husbandry means using appropriate feed, having healthy and efficient animals, and transforming even factors considered marginal and so far not adequately valued (biogas, photovoltaics, waste milk) into resources. To do this, Dairyfarm focuses on the 4 key elements of sustainable animal husbandry: choice of optimal crops for feeding, calf and heifer management (which represent the investment the farmer makes in his future), management and welfare of the dairy cow (which is the real source of income for farmers), and milk quality and its processing.

Dairyfarm is structured in two phases, a first training phase with 4 scientific seminars spread over the 6 months of Expo and dedicated to Forage and Seeding: harvesting and storage; Calf and heifer management; Dairy cows: nutrition and welfare; and Milk Quality and Processing.

A second, demonstrative, with 10 guided tours to 6 different livestock farms in Lombardy to experience live applications and cutting-edge methodologies. Among them, the Baroncina experimental farm, owned by the Research Center for Forage and Dairy Production in Lodi (CRA-FLC), will be the Demo farm of the project, in which the different partners and sponsors of the initiative have installed and made available their innovative technologies for Precision Farming, or related to the progress and efficiency of the livestock sector.

“Dairy Farm,” explained Gianluca Carenzo, General Manager of the Lodi Technology Park , “is the natural complement to the Demo Field project. Both aim to put in the field or, in this case, in the barn, all the best innovations already available today for sustainability. The Park wanted to do this by being the promoter of a project that could unite public and private to design, together, the agriculture of the future and respond to the challenge of Expo2015: Feeding the planet.”

DairyFarm is a project promoted by the Lodi Technology Park, Sivam SpA, Dinamica Generale S.p.A., FIS srl., FRABES SpA, Paver SpA, Sgariboldi s.r.l., Zoetis Italia S.r.l., SCR Europe S.r.l. and Prince Agri Products Inc. in collaboration with CRA, CNR, IZSLER and UNIMI.

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