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University of Louvain Farms (FERM)

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Crédit photo : Yvan Flamant - Roger Job

Technical and scientific expertise

  • Expertise in different agricultural sectors
  • Co-construction of experiments to validate innovative agricultural practices
  • Infrastructure, machinery and specialised skills to conduct field trials

Main infrastructure

  • Two sites

    - Alphonse de Marbaix Centre
    - Lauzelle Farm

  • 100 hectares of agricultural land, in conventional and organic farming

    - Permanent grassland
    - Fodder crops
    - Sales crops (cereals, maize, beetroot, potatoes, etc.)
    - Diversified organic market gardening

  • Livestock

    - Limousin cow herd
    - Sheep and other typical Walloon farm products

Get an overview of the platform’s facilities via a virtual tour.

Applications

  • Technical itineraries towards the reduction of pesticide use
  • Soil conservation and organic farming practices
  • Valorisation of agricultural products on the farm
  • Nutritional value and differentiation of products (with other partners such as the CICN Platform)
  • Adaptation of crops to climate change
  • Biodiversity in agriculture

Services available to

  • UCLouvain students and researchers
  • Non-UCLouvain parties

Testimonial

March 2024 - Mrs Clotilde de Montpellier, founder of Farm for Good, a cooperative of Belgian farmers who have decided to work together on their transition toward organic and conservation agriculture, talks in a video about her collaboration with the FERM platform.

 

  • 29 March 2024
    Farm for Good, GSK, Isomatex and VOCSens : testimonials
    Watch the video testimonials of Farm for Good about its collaboration with the Fermes universitaires, Isomatex about its collaboration with P2C, GSK about its collaboration with SMCS and VOCSens about its collaboration with WINFAB.
  • 15 December 2023
    FERM launches the Baillet Latour Prize for Innovation in market gardening 2024
    For the fifth year, the Baillet Latour Prize for Innovation in Market Gardening will be awarded to an innovative project in sustainable vegetable production on a farm located in Wallonia or in Brussels Capital Region.