At the 65th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science in Copenhagen, researchers from SOLID received the “Wageningen Academic Publishers Award” for a contribution from SOLID Work Package 2.
The award-winning paper is titled “Reducing concentrate supplementation in an alpine low-input system: response of two dairy cow types“ and presents the results from a feeding trial conducted in Austria.
At the meeting in Copenhagen, Marco Holm received the award on behalf of himself and his colleagues.
Furthermore results from SOLID Work Package 2 were presented at
- the LfL Ökolandbau-Tag in Triesdorf, Germany, a conference focussing on applied research for organic farming,
- the first Joint Meeting of the FAO-CIHEAM Mountain Pastures, Mediterranean Forage Resources networks and Mountain Cheese network in Clermont-Ferrand, France
- the Internationale Weidetagung in Zollikofen, Switzerland, a conference focussing on pasture based dairying.