Animal Welfare Award 2024: Cow-Welfare A/S recognized for contribution to animal welfare_

Award ceremony at EuroTier 2024 - November 12 to 15, 2024 in Hanover - World's leading trade fair for professional animal farming and livestock management - Guiding theme: “We innovate animal farming” - Award for contribution to animal welfare

As part of the EuroTier Innovation Award scheme, this year’s distinction “Animal Welfare Award” goes to the company Cow-Welfare.  The award is conferred for the special contribution to higher animal welfare standards. The official award ceremony will take place as part of the Animal Health Event held at EuroTier on November 14 at EuroTier 2024 in Hanover, Germany.

The Animal Welfare Award, a distinction award for companies earning a EuroTier innovation award, has been presented by the DLG (German Agricultural Society) together with the bpt (German Association of Practicing Veterinarians) since 2018. The prerequisite of the distinction is winning a gold or silver medal in the DLG award scheme “Innovation Award EuroTier”: A product that has won gold or silver is eligible for the distinction if it also meets the requirements for higher animal welfare standards according to the evaluation criteria of the Animal Welfare Award. Products that further the natural behavior of the livestock species in question and positively support the health of the animals are particularly highlighted.

The “Innovation Award EuroTier” in gold is awarded to a product with a new concept that offers a function that has changed significantly, enabling either a new process or significantly improving an existing process. A silver medal is awarded to a product in which an existing product has been further developed to offer a significant improvement in function and process.

Die Animal Welfare Award: Portrait of the winner

• Product: Cow-Welfare Flex Air Stall
• Manufacturer: Cow-Welfare A/S
• Hall: 12, stand: B49

This year, the Animal Welfare Award is being presented to the Flex Air Stall from Cow Welfare A/S, a company headquartered in Denmark. Avoiding heat stress in farm livestock poses a major challenge in times of climate change and increasingly long periods of very high temperatures in the summer. In addition to the significant impairment of animal welfare and health, heat stress in dairy cows also goes hand in hand with a significant decline in the milk yield. Retrofittable systems such as fans are difficult to implement in existing barn buildings and the desired cooling effect is often not achieved where it is needed, namely at the animal.

This is where the Flex Air Stall comes into play: the cow's comfort is significantly increased by a constant flow of fresh air into the lying area via the cubicle bar. This approach is as simple as it is innovative.

Animal suffering due to heat is therefore quickly and continuously prevented. A system that creates a comfortable climate zone in the animals' resting area and therefore quickly and effectively ensures optimum cow welfare in the freestall barn is available for the first time. The Flex Air Stall thus serves to directly protect the welfare and health of cows, particularly in the light of the current challenge posed by climate change, and is therefore thoroughly deserving of the Animal Welfare Award.

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About DLG

With more than 31,000 members, DLG is a politically independent and non-profit organisation. DLG draws on an international network of some 3,000 food and agricultural experts. Through its subsidiary, DLG International, DLG operates has subsidiaries in nine countries and also organizes over 30 regional agricultural and livestock exhibitions worldwide. DLG’s leading international exhibitions, EuroTier for livestock farming and Agritechnica for agricultural machinery, which are held every two years in Hanover, Germany, provide international impetus for the local trade fairs. Headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, DLG conducts practical trials and tests to keep its members informed of the latest developments. DLG’s sites include DLG's International Crop Production Centre, a 600-hectare test site in Bernburg-Strenzfeld, Germany and the DLG Test Centre, Europe's largest agricultural machinery test centre for Technology and Farm Inputs, located in Gross-Umstadt, Germany. DLG bridges the gap between theory and practice, as evidenced by more than 40 working groups of farmers, academics, agricultural equipment companies and organisations that continually compare advances in knowledge in specific areas such as irrigation and precision farming.

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