In 2019 the Dairy Campus consists of a reception and presentation building, conference rooms, training areas, manure facilities, ponds to purify effluent a rotary milking parlor, and six dairy barns, each with its own function, such as raising young cattle, the processing of manure, and research into the accumulation of ammonia, life expectancy, grazing systems, and feedstuffs and efficient feeding.
The test farm has 18 permanent employees (more than half in farming positions and the remainder in the office) and 550 milch cows (not counting a couple of hundreds heads of young cattle).
Furthermore, it also includes 300 hectares of pasture.
More than thirty research and innovation projects are being conducted at any time.
Apart from its status as a knowledge and research centre, the Dairy Campus is also an enterprise, which has to pay for itself.
Half of all proceeds comes from supplying milk to FrieslandCampina, and the other half is derived from sponsoring of scientific research.
Installment of a new gas installation, in December 2018, made the biogas from the biofermenter, which had been placed in the Dairy Campus by Biogas B.V., suitable to supply to the public gas net.
In 2019 the Dairy Campus consists of a reception and presentation building, conference rooms, training areas, manure facilities, ponds to purify effluent a rotary milking parlor, and six dairy barns, each with its own function, such as raising young cattle, the processing of manure, and research into the accumulation of ammonia, life expectancy, grazing systems, and feedstuffs and efficient feeding. The test farm has 18 permanent employees (more than half in farming positions and the remainder in the office) and 550 milch cows (not counting a couple of hundreds heads of young cattle). Furthermore, it also includes 300 hectares of pasture. More than thirty research and innovation projects are being conducted at any time. Apart from its status as a knowledge and research centre, the Dairy Campus is also an enterprise, which has to pay for itself. Half of all proceeds comes from supplying milk to FrieslandCampina, and the other half is derived from sponsoring of scientific research. Installment of a new gas installation, in December 2018, made the biogas from the biofermenter, which had been placed in the Dairy Campus by Biogas B.V., suitable to supply to the public gas net.
Dairy Campus