A large group of participants of the DairyMix project team had a productive participation at The XXII International Nitrogen (N) Workshop 2024 held at Aarhus University, Denmark. The team members shared their research through oral presentations and poster displays. Lennart Kokemohr from Ruralis, Norway shared his research on “Coupling Cropping System and Bioeconomic Optimization Models to Assess Nitrogen…
The 7th European Agroforestry Conference took place in late May in Brno, Czech Republic. Results from the DairyMix project were presented by Serena Bonizzi, Giorgio Ragaglini, and Federico Dragoni in the form of an oral presentation and a project poster. Their presentations highlighted how agroforestry presents an opportunity for dairy production systems to become more…
There is a lot of exciting communication activity going on in the Dairymix project at the moment, and several contributions have been made all over the world at a variety of conferences and meetings so far in 2024. PhD Benjamin Macartan (Teagasc) gave the talk “Calcium Peroxide and 3-Nitrooxypropanol as Feed Additives: Residual Effects on…
In late October, Dr. Federico Dragoni visited the webinar series GEH Breakfast Club for PostDocs and PhDs, presenting the DairyMix project. The webinar series on ‘Circularity in mixed crop and livestock farming systems, with emphasis on greenhouse gas mitigation’, is hosted by Green ERA-HUB on Agri-food and Biotechology. Dr. Dragonis talk “Multi-criteria assessment, decision support…
Serena Bonizzi participated at the “First National Agroforestry Forum”, sponsored by “AIAF-Italian Association of Agroforestry” with the theme of “cultivating and raising with trees.” The conference was held in Rome at the Headquarters of the National Research Council CREA Ricerca. During the sessions she had the opportunity to present the work of the Dipartimento di…
DairyMix Annual Meeting in Milan: partners reviewed project progress, data collection, sustainability assessment and modeling. Field trip to cheese factory and farm for knowledge exchange. The DairyMix team at the Baronchelli Farm, October 4). Photo credits: Grete Jørgensen (NIBIO) From October 2nd to 4th, the DairyMix project gathered all partners in Milan for their Annual…
In August Mary Brennan presented the DairyMix project at the XVII EEAE Congress in Rennes, France: “Agri-food systems in a changing world: Connecting Science and Society”. Great to see all the interest in our work on developing circularity indicators for farms! #circulareconomy #sustainability
In July, results of the DairyMix Project were presented by Serena Bonizzi (UNIMI) at the IV Conference AISSA#under40 in Fisciano (SA), Italy. This conference brought together many young researchers in agricultural sciences! AISSA: Associazione Italiana Società Scientifiche Agrarie https://www.aissaunder40.com/ #sustainableagriculture #circularity Serena and her poster titled “Circularity in livestock farming: an emerging research topic or established…
DairyMix researchers from ATB, Teagasc, INRAE, University of Milan and Ruralis met at Teagasc in Athenry (Ireland). In order to facilitate the exhange between partners of the DairyMix project, one week of intensive work has been organised in one of the Teagasc sites, in Athenry (Ireland). DairyMix researchers from ATB, Teagasc, INRAE, University of Milan…
In the EU-funded DairyMix project, partners from 10 different countries from Europe and Latin America are joining forces to assess circular mixed farming systems for dairy production. The DairyMix team and farmers at Hamnes during the kick-off meeting in Tjøtta (Norway). Credits: Jon Asbjørn Johnsen Mixed dairy farming systems are an essential backbone of European…