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Area 2


Animal Production


The Extension Serviceis the first step CoRFiLaC takes in showing its image to the outside world. It was thought up to gather producer’s needs and understand their future requirements.





The Extension Service involves in its experimental protocols over 300 dairy farms, producing more than 50% of Sicilian milk for productive and reproductive data analysis. This data, which is processed in real time in collaboration with CED, is communicated to farmers offering them scientific and technical support for management decisions.

Extension Service is the Italian reference point for the software used in Cornell University, PENN University and Miner Institute: the “CPM dairy”, which is not only used to formulate experimental rations but also to test the animal nutrition efficiency in different kind of Sicilian rearing.
A particular attention is placed on programs about: forage quality and their conservation’s systems, reproduction efficiency, milk quality, foot diseases, cow comfort. These protocols were organized to satisfy farmers’ requests.

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“Nutrition and management on line”, “NuMoL”, is a program recognized worldwide and represents an innovative way to help people “think ahead”. It also meets the needs of most technological farms giving them an opportunity to compare themselves with the outside world.

NuMoL was created to eliminate territorial boundaries and to be able to use in real time data analysis and advice from experts working for the best qualified research centers in the world and Universities. It is used both to solve hard farm problems and to verify on line experimental protocols and their effects on animals and products.

Training of farmers and technicians coming from all over Italy has been established. Every two years farmers and specialized technicians attend a “stage” of specialization on “Management, nutrition and reproduction of dairy cows”.