After a welcome from the head of research and innovation, Dr. Andreas Steinwidder program included a specialist exchange in the areas of analytics and feeding trials with ruminants. Ing. Reinhard Resch, Petra Unterweger, Matthias Häusler and Dr. Margit Velik guided our guests through our laboratories and reported on our options in the areas of feed, water, meat and milk analysis. The focus was primarily on an exchange about the technical possibilities at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein and at the TTE Institute at BOKU and how synergies in the field of analytics can be used in the future. There is currently a collaboration in the research project UFE-Kuh_GfE2023 , in which feed samples are examined for protein degradability, digestibility of the undegraded protein and amino acid patterns. These characteristics of the protein value are of great importance for the implementation of the new GfE supply recommendations for dairy cows .
Afterwards, a tour of the ruminant stables at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein was on the agenda. Dr. Thomas Guggenberger, Dr. Georg Terler, Dr. Margit Velik and Dipl.-Ing. Maria Naynar reported on current experiments on dairy and suckler cows, fattening cattle as well as sheep and goats with a focus on feeding, emissions from ruminant farming and herd protection.
For example, a number of master's theses have recently been by BOKU Vienna students in collaboration with the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein . Everyone agrees that they want to continue this collaboration and there are already ideas for this.
We were very pleased about the visit of the BOKU TTE Institute to the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein and look forward to further future collaboration with great pleasure.
