Farm visit: 5 years of experience at Flemish trial farm

5 years ago, the Flemish Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO) in Belgium started up its own pig farm. Would the farm have been built in 2020, different choices would have been made. It is a logical result of experience as well as questions from the field. The new ILVO pig farm in the Belgian town Melle looks compact in the ILVO’s total barn complex. Despite the limited number of animals, it is a complete and modern farm. “The barn was built five years ago, in cooperation wit