HoliCow Pastures: a key element for farm and community resilience As explained in our latest article , grass, in every shape and form, represents a big part of the livestock diet. In North-West Europe, pastures are everywhere to see, and they are not only important ... 29 Nov 2024 Articles
HoliCow Competition feed/food: do dairy cows eat from our plates? “Livestock farming uses land that could be used directly to feed humans” Do dairy cows really eat at our table and from our plates? Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/feed-required-to-produce-... 26 Sep 2024 Articles
HoliCow 75th EAAP Annual Meeting At the beginning of September, part of the HoliCow team participated in the 75th EAAP - European Federation of Animal Science Annual Meeting in beautiful Florence, Italy! Charles Nickmilder talked abo... 5 Sep 2024 Events
HoliCow Quiz on dairy farming Answer these 10 questions to test your knowledge of dairy farming! This quiz was initially designed for children: don't hesitate to get your children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces, cousins, etc. inv... 30 Aug 2024 Articles
HoliCow Foire de Libramont 2024 HoliCow was well represented at the Libramont Fair 2024 🐮 The HoliCow team in Belgium participated in the 88th Foire de Libramont with a stand where people, and farmers in particular, could get inform... 1 Aug 2024 Events
HoliCow HoliCow bi-annual meeting in Luxembourg In July, the partners from all 6 countries were reunited in Luxembourg for two intense days of discussions and in-person meetings. On the first day, we started with a warm-up and brainstormed on the a... 12 Jul 2024 Events
HoliCow ENAJ x EU-FarmBook Event in Ghent In July, members from the Holicow team participated in an event organised by ENAJ (European Network of Agricultural Journalists) and EU-FarmBook, a Horizon Europe project working on building an online... 10 Jul 2024 Events
HoliCow The importance of cows for resilient communities These past few years, cows and farmers have been more and more criticised for their contribution to climate change. This has led to an increase in the consumption of plant-based products, for example,... 30 May 2024 Articles
HoliCow Which "farmers-citizens" activities would you find interesting? HoliCow is of course a R&D project, with a focus on innovations in the dairy sector , but we also have a great focus on the bond between farmers and citizens . That’s why we are planning a few activit... 30 May 2024 Articles
HoliCow HoliCow at the 47th ICAR Annual Conference Members of the HoliCow team participated in the 47th ICAR and Interbull Annual Conference in Bled, Slovenia. The HoliCow project was presented on Thursday during Session 5: “SC Milk Analysis – How to ... 27 May 2024 Events
HoliCow Big Data for Dairy Farms? How exactly? You must have read already that the HoliCow project is based on the use of Big Data to improve the resilience of small and medium-sized dairy farms. But how exactly is that going to work? During past ... 30 Apr 2024 Articles
HoliCow 47th ICAR Annual Conference HoliCow will be represented at the 47th Annual Conference of ICAR (International Committee for Animal Recording) in Bled, Slovenia. The project will be presented during Session 5 “ SC Milk Analysis – ... 23 Apr 2024 Events