Last month one of our consultants travelled abroad to provide trainings to extension servicers of a large milk processing company. Our consultancy branch is involved in a large development project for a local branch of this international milk processor. We are...
After a relatively calm period in our Livestock branch, export business is picking up again. The last couple of weeks we carried out various export assignments to Eastern Europe. For this ongoing assignment the clients select and purchase heifers in different regions...
Uganda has a fast emerging dairy sector and therefore Bles Dairies participated in the Holland Pavilion at the Agri Harvest Money expo at Kampala (17-19 February). Bles Dairies represented all its disciplines and also Dairy Training Centre, of which our consultancy...
Last week our dairy nutrition specialist Ben participated in a seminar in China. This seminar was organised to conclude a grassland project in which our consultancy discipline The Friesian was involved. During this seminar the outcomes of grassland demonstrations were...
Dairy specialist and technical director of The Friesian Martin is appointed a member of the Advisory Committee for the new Master of Innovative Dairy Chain Management at the Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein in Leeuwarden. This master focuses on farms delivering milk of...
Cow farming around the world is not always easy and especially in Siberia it is a challenge. Our animal nutrition specialist Ben was requested to correct the rations on two Siberian dairy farms near Irkutsk. He tells: “these days, the outside temperature lies...
Our consultancy branch The Friesian is involved in a three-year project to stimulate the private dairy sector in Ethiopia. The aim of this project is to increase the number of profitable dairy farms and firms in the Ethiopian private sector. As part of this project,...
The past few months we worked hard on our newest company movie. It’s time to show the result! The movie takes you on a grand tour at our own dairy farm. Bles Dairies Farm is a moderate sized farm in Broek, in the north of The Netherlands. We focus on top farm...
In cooperation with a local advisory and engineering company, our consultancy discipline The Friesian is involved in the conduction of a rehabilitation and feasibility study on an existing (non operational) vast dairy complex in South East Sudan. The complex was...
A next phase in the TIDE project (The inclusive Dairy Enterprise project) in Uganda is reached. Reason for a short update. One of our experts recently brought a succesfull visit to Mbarara in Uganda, with the purpose of establishing a Quality Based Milk Payment System...
Our fertility expert and trainer Anne just returned from a visit to Vietnam and Indonesia. In both countries our consultancy branch is engaged as partner in a 5 year dairy development project and provides trainings on a quarterly basis. Anne visited farmers and...
The Friesian as part of Bles Dairies is executing a training program for Mongolian farmers to support their daily practices and management decisions. In this video you see the cows leaving their paddock for a grazing day. The temperature is -12°C, but for them still...