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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
05/12/2024

Farmdesk anchors future with new shareholder structure

Press Release: Farmdesk today announced a change in its shareholder structure.
Jef Aernouts
02/12/2024

Cooperation with Royal A-ware in Belgium to calculate footprint milk

We are proud to announce a new commercial partnership with Royal A-ware in Belgium. Starting in November 2024, Royal A-ware will use our software Farmdesk Climate to help dairy farmers calculate their carbon footprint.
Jef Aernouts
08/11/2024

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
01/10/2024

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
11/08/2024

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
26/05/2024

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
03/04/2024

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
29/03/2024

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
27/03/2024

New website for revised business strategy

Learn more about our customized business strategy: supporting farmers and sector enterprises by combining sotfware, agricultural knowledge and data engineering into innovative solutions.
Jef Aernouts
25/03/2024

Adding mixing silage in Farmdesk

Mix pits, also known as "lasagna pits," are commonly used in practice. Read here how to get started with them in Farmdesk.
Daya Will
08/03/2024

How silage corn boosts milk production: analysis on starch, DVE and VEM

In this article, we analyze the relationship between starch on the one hand and VEM and DVE on the other hand to better depict the milk-driven nature of silage corn.
Daya Will, Jef Aernouts
07/03/2024

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