About the research
To produce milk, a cow needs nitrogen. She gets that nitrogen from the proteins in her diet. But did you know that the dairy cow uses only 25 to 30% of the nitrogen she eats to produce milk proteins? The rest ends up in the environment via her urine and manure, while nitrogen emissions in Flanders from industry, traffic, and agriculture are already too high. This is why Tine Van den Bossche (ILVO - UGent) is researching how we can make cows produce the same amount of milk with fewer nitrogen emissions.
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