What the buyer wrote
The productivity of milk and meat production from European cattle has increased considerably in recent decades. However, the sustainability of this intensification is questioned due to environmental and animal welfare trade-offs and growing reliance on edible food and imported soy as feed. The proposed project aims to evaluate the productivity, resource-use efficiency and consumers' acceptability of a transition to high forage and pasture diets for European cattle. The project will focus on dairy, integrated dairy/beef and specialized beef production systems, addressing the call's three research areas: · Productivity (including milk yield and growth rate), product quality (including nutritio…
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- SusCattle - SCF0211
- How they are buying
- The buyer did not say
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 1 Mar 2017
- Work ends
- 28 Mar 2020
- Kind of work
- Research, evaluation and insight
Who the buyer named
Network Procurement was the named contact on this notice.