Research Prof. Dr. Nicole Kemper

Funding: Nds. Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur über Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 1.811.726 EUR

Project Details:
This initial project within the ZERN research and transfer network is dealing with the future-oriented keeping and use of fattening pigs. There are deficits in current fattening pig husbandry, particularly in the areas of animal welfare, emissions and nutrient efficiency. This project has therefore set the objective of scientifically evaluating relevant aspects of sustainable pork production synergistically and gaining new, practice-relevant knowledge.

Cooperation Partners:

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik (DIL)

Funding: Nds. Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur über Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 1.496.374 EUR

Project Details:
ZERN is a research network of the University of Göttingen, the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover and the German Institute of Food Technologies in Quakenbrück, which aims to support the transformation of the agricultural and food system in Lower Saxony, which is under increasing pressure to adapt. Aspects such as animal welfare and sustainability must be given greater consideration in agricultural production in the future. The findings from the research network should enable the sustainable production, processing and marketing of food.

Cooperation Partners:

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik (DIL)

Funding: Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (Bundesprogramm ökologischer Landbau), 231.160 EUR

Project Details:
The overarching objective of the project is to improve the health of suckling and weaned piglets under organic farming conditions in free-farrowing systems and piglet rearing systems through optimized housing and feeding strategies, and to identify approaches for reducing piglet mortality. In addition to adapted housing and nutrition, an improved, farm-specific health and hygiene management system is intended to contribute substantially to stable herd health in organic production systems. Furthermore, the project aims to close existing knowledge gaps and generate new scientific insights for organic sow husbandry and piglet production through the investigation and evaluation of multiple research questions.

Cooperation Partners:

Landwirtschaftskammer Nordrhein-Westfalen

Georg-August Universität Göttingen

Universität Kassel

Funding: Nds. Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur über Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 360.307 EUR

Project Details:
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Funding: Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE), 134.128 EUR

Project Details:
The overall goal of the project is that farms that have high antibiotic use (ABU) can learn from farms that have comparably low ABU and the identification and optimization of parameters to improve animal health. The specific objectives of the project are: to improve biosecurity and overall hygiene of broiler chicken farms, to improve animal health of broiler chickens, to minimize the use of antibiotics, to transfer knowledge between broiler chicken farms with low and high ABU, and to optimize risk areas based on knowledge transfer.
There should be an intensive exchange of experiences between farmers who have different levels of ABU within the project. Thus, farms that have a high need for antibiotic use at the beginning of the project will learn which parameters they can and should optimize to improve animal health and minimize antibiotic use. Farm management factors that have a potential impact on animal health and consequent necessary ABU will be evaluated and collected during the practical phases of the project. These factors are divided into respective work packages (WP), including biosecurity of the farm and hygiene management (worked on by FLI & UROS), cleaning and disinfection (UROS), animal health and stable or herd management (TiHo and LMU), and knowledge transfer (UROS).
The project thus involves farms that have already been able to minimize their antibiotic use through innovative measures, optimized management and improved husbandry conditions. In addition, farms that are interested in improving animal health and minimizing antibiotic use and want to learn from other farms are invited to participate.

Cooperation Partners:

Uni ROS; Prof. Helen Louton

LMU München; PD Dr. Elke Rauch

FLI Insel Riems; PD Dr. Nicolai Denzin

Funding: Gefördert durch die Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung Bonn/BMEL, 369.000 EUR

Project Details:
Der innovative Ansatz dieses Projektes zielt darauf ab, aus der Produktionskette isolierte Phagen als nachhaltige prophylaktische Maßnahme in der Geflügelproduktion zu etablieren.
Es sollen im Rahmen eines Zweistufenkonzepts maßgeschneiderte Phagenprodukte entwickelt werden.

Cooperation Partners:

Tierärztliche Gemeinschaftspraxis WEK, Miavit GmbH

Funding: Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE), 400.880 EUR

Project Details:
The future region "TiPP"" has the aim of optimising transparency and traceability in a regionally established value chain pig via digital strategies from farm to fork. The focus of the practical trials is the use of Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) with its concepts and technologies (DLT, blockchain), which is completely unexplored in farm animals. For testing and the later derivation of transparency indices for consumers, animal, farm and process data are collected along the entire pig value chain in sub-projects that address current transparency-relevant areas such as data management, application of sensors, animal health, animal welfare, climate efficiency, sustainability and consumer behaviour. "

Cooperation Partners:

Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

OFFIS e.V.

Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Funding: EU, 267.625 EUR

Project Details:
The aim of this project is the large-scale, automated welfare monitoring of animal-based indicators at the slaughterhouse, that are related to welfare on-farm, during (un)loading, transport, and slaughter. Novel sensors will be developed and tested to measure these indicators, so data can be collected continuously and automatically.
More Informationen: https://www.awish-project.eu/

Cooperation Partners:

24 Partner aus 13 Europäischen Ländern. Koordination: ILVO, Belgien

Funding: Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung, 155.514 EUR

Project Details:
In this project, the focus is on analysing the interrelationships between animal welfare and environmental protection in dairy farming. The aim of the project is to consider the three factors "low emissions, high walking comfort and long-lived cows"" in a three-year study phase in the Chamber of Agriculture's trial barn at Haus Riswick. "

Cooperation Partners:

- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Institut für Landtechnik

- Landwirtschaftskammer Nordrhein-Westfalen, Haus Riswick

Funding: Das Projekt ist Teil der Modell- und Demonstrationsvorhaben (MuD) Tierschutz im Bundesprogramm Nutztierhaltung. Die Förderung erfolgt aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL) aufgrund eines Beschlusses des deutschen Bundestages, Projektträger ist die Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE), Förderkennzeichen 2820MDT341., 399.935 EUR

Project Details:
The aim of this model and demonstration project is to scientifically evaluate (partially) mobile slaughtering of poultry and cattle and to communicate the results adequately into practice. Different types of (partially) mobile slaughter units will be analyzed with regard to their effects on the animals (animal welfare) and products from these animals (meat hygiene, meat quality), organizational feasibility, technical requirements, legal conformity and economy. Existing and new scientific findings for the optimization of the above-mentioned aspects will be tested for their suitability, and communicated and transferred into practice. The communication of the results will take place via specialist articles, leaflets/practice guides, specialist videos, homepages, online seminars and information events.

https://www.tiho-hannover.de/stronger

Cooperation Partners:

Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau e.V. (FiBL)

Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft e.V. (DLG)