Catalogue of Infrastructures and Facilities

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Barn building

Chambre d'Agriculture des Pays de Loire (CAPDL)

This facility is composed of 2 pens: one 1000 m² housing for milking cows with 85 places at the trough and one 800 m² housing for heifers with 70 places at the trough. The cows are housed in a stall with cubicles on straw and an automatic scraper.

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Cereal plots

Chambre d'Agriculture des Pays de Loire (CAPDL)

15-hectare plot for cereal growing. Sowing around November and harvesting in July.

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Corn plots

Chambre d'Agriculture des Pays de Loire (CAPDL)

32-hectare plot for silage corn growing. Sowing begins in early May, and harvesting begins in early September.

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Grassland plots

Chambre d'Agriculture des Pays de Loire (CAPDL)

55-hectare plot of grassland with a 7-year rotation: 5 years of grassland, 2 years of crops. This plot can be harvested or grazed by the cows. Various trials are performed on the plot: multi-species meadows test, maintenance tests (overseeding, aeration, amendment), growth measurement with an herbometer, phosphorus runoff and nitrate loss tests, ...

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Milking research laboratory

Chambre d'Agriculture des Pays de Loire (CAPDL)

This facility is composed of an experimental milking machine, a modular milking parlour, and a milking robot.

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Derval

Chambre d'Agriculture des Pays de Loire (CAPDL)

At Derval, the herd comprises 85 Prim'Holsteins and 75 heifers, with an annual production of 700,000 litres of milk. Derval is a member of the Innovation Research and Development team of the Pays de la Loire Chamber of Agriculture, working with Idele (French Livestock Institute) and the F@rmXP network. As a Digiferme®, new technologies are a key area of interest for the Derval farm. Their use should help to improve the farmer's day-to-day life and guarantee optimised management of the dairy farm. Some examples tested on the farm: - Milk quality and energy consumption: Testing of a "new generation" low-energy consumption and connected milk cooling tank, as part of a project to enhance the value of the farm's energy data. - Monitoring the operating costs of technologies used on the farm: Detecting malfunctions in milking robots and optimising them by monitoring connected water and electricity meters. - Pasture monitoring and management: Drones and virtual fencing are examples of technologies evaluated. - Milk analysis laboratory associated with a milking robot. - Animal behaviour analysis: collars with integrated accelerometers, cameras for viewing the entire dairy cow barn, and developing computer vision algorithms. - Testing of robots on field crops.