At the Animal Production Department, we perform:
- expert,
- research,
- development and
- consulting work
in the fields of:
- cattle production
- pig production and
- apiculture.
In terms of content, we mostly emphasise:
- the quality of animal products,
- animal well-being,
- environmental protection,
- adapting animal production to climate changes,
- economic use of natural resources,
- sustainable aspects of animal production and
- its competitiveness.
Besides providing expert support to the breeders in breeding and selective breeding, we also perform:
- NIRS-analyses and evaluations of nutritional value of forage feed,
- we assess carcass and meat quality,
- we perform genetic analyses for checking the origin and discovering genetic defects in cattle,
- honey analyses and
- we develop and maintain:
- online tools for supporting management on farms,
- the national Govedo Central Database (Cattle) (CPZ Govedo),
- a web-based application for diet calculation of dairy cows (Kokra) and
- a web-based application for laboratories (LabKIS).
Infrastructure support for research and development work is provided by the following research laboratories:
- Animal Nutrition Laboratory,
- Laboratory for meat quality analysis,
- Laboratory for NIR spectroscopy,
- Apiary Laboratory and
- Experimental Centre for Apiculture in Senično with a network of monitoring stations.