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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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Remarkable cut corn after a hot and dry summer

The feeding season with the new cut corn has already started on many farms. The quality is highly variable. What can we learn from the 2022 cut corn compared to 2020 and 2021?

Wim Govaerts, Lode Slaets

Harvesting corn in the 2022 growing season

Now that the weather is getting back to growing a bit in many places, it seems important to start making choices regarding the 2022 corn harvest. On a lot of farms, corn harvest may start as early as this month.

Keeping up fat content during the summer?

Many dairy farmers are familiar with the natural decline in fat content during the summer months. Should we go with the seasonal trend or are there control mechanisms?

What about heat stress in 2022?

Periods of high temperatures will undoubtedly come again in 2022. Prepare ahead of time.

How to ensile quality forage?

Producing and harvesting good grass (clover) or cut rye is the trick, but it doesn't stop there. Making these forages storable until everything is absorbed is the challenge.

The cut rye is getting ready, now all we have to do is choose

Cutting rye to winterize seems a smart choice especially on non-drought prone soils, but what do we want with it?

Fresh grass as cheap concentrate in 2022?

With forage supplies still rather high on most dairy farms and concentrate feed becoming expensive, fresh grass (grazing/stall feeding) can provide a nice season start.

How important is cornstalk digestibility?

Cut corn is ubiquitous in dairy rations. The corn stalk is very low in protein, requiring correction with expensive protein. Better to combine the grain with protein-rich stalks from grass (clover)?

Wim Govaerts, Jef Aernouts

Fertilizer is blisteringly expensive ... cut back? Or are there alternatives?

Saving on fertilizer (even at very high prices) is not a good plan.

Jef Aernouts, Wim Govaerts

Optimal harvest, storage and use of corn

Some tips for making the most of your corn harvest.

Jan van Middelaar, Wim Govaerts

Maximizing raw milk per cow appears to be the big challenge

A look at energy content and other performance indicators of forage.

Dairy cows apparently need to consume a lot of roughage

The second part of the Farmdesk analysis on the new performance indicators, where we take a deeper look at the influence of your feed material choice.

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