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News about projects financed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature (Dutch acronym LVVN) can be found here. News comes from various institutes within Wageningen University & Research.
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Bird flu at poultry farms, updates 2024/2025
- On this page, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) presents an overview of highly pathogenic bird flu infections on Dutch poultry farms from... -
MARAN 2024: Decline in antibiotic resistance in animals is levelling off
- Antibiotic usage in Dutch livestock farming has fallen sharply since 2009. The sharp decline in antibiotic usage started levelling of last year, as... -
Bluetongue in ruminants, updates 2024
- This year's first case of bluetongue in the Netherlands was confirmed on 14 June 2024. Since the confirmation of bluetongue serotype 3 in Ommeren,... -
WBVR study shows European Bat Lyssavirus type 1 in Dutch cat
- An infection with European Bat Lyssavirus type 1 (EBLV-1, lyssavirus Hamburg) has been demonstrated in a Dutch cat. The animal suddenly changed its... -
New bluetongue virus serotype, BTV-12, identified in the Netherlands
- A new variant of the bluetongue virus has been identified in a sheep in Kockengen. It was identified as bluetongue serotype BTV-12, according to... -
RECOAT Kicks Off: Biobased Materials for the Coatings Industry
- On Thursday, September 26, the RECOAT project began—a collaboration between the Dutch Association of Paint and Printing Ink Manufacturers... -
The air is full of DNA!
- Animals lose dander, mucus and hair that end up in the air. Would it be possible to collect and analyse those traces to map local biodiversity? This... -
Monitoring of aquatic genetic resources: 1650 aquatic samples collected for genetic analysis
- In 2024, samples and datasets of flat oyster and Pacific oyster, mussel, turbot, zander and eel will be analysed. Work is currently being done on the... -
Wanted: seeds of Dikke Leidsche Winter and other 'lost' heritage varieties
- A century ago, there were many more varieties in Dutch agricultural and horticultural sectors than there are today. The Centre for Genetic Resources,... -
Bird flu vaccines protect chickens in first phase field study
- The two bird flu vaccines currently being tested in a field study have been found to protect laying hens from the disease eight weeks after...