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Wim Govaerts

After completing his Master's degree in Agricultural Sciences, Wim Govaerts founded a consultancy firm specializing in technical and business-economic advice for companies involved in milk-producing ruminants. Within Farmdesk, alongside his role on the board, he serves as an agricultural expert, combining extensive theoretical knowledge with practical experience.

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2024 weather reflects nicely on grass silage quality

Whereas 2022 was a dry, sunny and warm year while 2023 was a fairly normal year with a wet period in the spring, the 2024 growing season was in most places wet, late and quite gloomy except for August.

Lode Slaets, Wim Govaerts

How to deal with bad corn from the 2024 crop year

We always saw the weather reflected in cut corn quality in past years. Where are we going to end up this year with the wet spring that continued strongly through the rest of the growing season?

Wim Govaerts, Lode Slaets

Pursuing high protein efficiency: good for the wallet ánd the environment

Farm economics can indeed go hand in hand with environmentally friendly production: the higher the protein efficiency, the higher the profit per cow.

Wim Govaerts, Lode Slaets, Jef Aernouts

Carbon footprint reduction on a Flemish dairy farm: is 30% possible?

The answer is yes - where the road to it on a typical dairy farm will consist of a combination of measures. It will also have a reasonable impact on farm management, but not necessarily with a negative economic impact.

Jef Aernouts, Lode Slaets, Willem Govaerts, Wim Govaerts

Nice reflection of the growing season in the 2023 grass (clover) silages

The cold spring, the dry June month and the growing autumn are standouts of the 2023 grass season. On average, nice grass silage was won with excellent quality.

Daya Will, Wim Govaerts

A late-started 2023 corn season still resulted in good quality

The 2023 corn season brought challenges, mainly due to a very wet and cool spring. Fortunately, the growing weather during the (after) summer brought relief. Overall, the quality of silage corn was high.

Daya Will, Wim Govaerts

Carbon footprint of Flemish milk - case study with Farmdesk Climate

The dairy industry has ambitious climate goals by 2030. We believe dairy farmers need to be involved in the story and that in addition to greenhouse gas emissions, the economic impact needs to be monitored. Farmdesk Climate is the solution.

Jef Aernouts, Lode Slaets, Willem Govaerts, Wim Govaerts

How do milk prices affect cows and dairy farmers?

In this analysis, we examine the effect of milk price on milk production and feed profits. In addition, we discuss some concerns in the current climate of relatively lower milk prices.

Jef Aernouts, Wim Govaerts

Updated standards for young stock

Given the trend toward intensification, we at Farmdesk chose to adjust feed standards for young cattle for rapid growth and early calving.

Increase protein efficiency for higher feed profits

In recent years, there has been increasing concern about nitrogen issues in the dairy industry. When you talk about nitrogen, you talk about protein. What do we learn from the Farmdesk data regarding protein efficiency and ration protein content

Does climate change require a new corn strategy in the lowlands?

Should the early seeding opportunity as in crop year 2022 and the observed drought be the harbinger of a trend, it may be interesting to choose pure dent varieties for certain plots.

Farmdesk ration calculation - some changes

From now on you will also find NDF, ADL, Resistant Starch and DS percentage in the typical Farmdesk ration graph. In this article a motivation (why?) and more background (how? and what?) to this update.

Jef Aernouts, Wim Govaerts

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