Laura Star
Sander Lourens
Farmers benefit more from applied research than from a scientific paper
The Dutch poultry sector is world-leading when it comes to innovation. Schools, their students, and their connections to industry partners and market actors play a vital part in this.
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he Dutch poultry sector is always leading when it comes to innovation. The entire world is keeping track of what we’re doing here, I dare say. We were the first to diminish the usage of antibiotics, the first to use aviary systems in poultry housing on a large scale. We invented farm hatching and early feeding. That transition is just now happening on a global scale’, says Laura Star about the state of innovation in the Dutch poultry sector. Star is involved in poultry innovation on
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a daily basis. She’s a part-time researcher at Schothorst Feed Research, and parttime Professor of Precision Feeding and Sustainable Poultry Farming at Aeres University of Applied Sciences. Her main research interests are poultry feed, health, welfare and behaviour. Her current research focuses on alternative protein sources for chicken feed, such as insect larvae. ‘We have high quality research institutions and universities of applied sciences. And countless smaller and larger companies developing new innovations. The entire
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