Project description

The project consortium aims to develop a toolbox of dietary strategies for dairy cows designed to reduce nitrogen emissions by 10% to 20% compared to current nutritional practices. These strategies will enhance the efficiency of converting dietary protein into milk, minimising nitrogen excretion while maintaining milk production. By improving the efficiency of milk production, farmers can sustain or even increase output without expanding herd sizes, thereby optimising the use of land resources.

Within the consortium, Nutreco delivers extensive knowledge and an R&D base (Trouw Nutrition R&D), and Nutrivice functions as an indispensable link to dairy farmers and their daily operations. Trouw Nutrition R&D has years of strategic focus on nitrogen (N) efficiency to address the global importance of this topic as limiting factor for efficiency, profitability and land use in tropics (Brazil and India) and North American dairy and beef business, while being critical to dairy sustainability in Europe.