The tested waterbeds DCC ISO with foam and DCC Wave with foam meet the requirements of the BTS programme³ concerning deformable bedding for cattle (Swiss Ethoprogramme Ordinance of 23 October 2013, Annex 6).
After 25 years of on-and-off negotiations, the EU–Mercosur trade agreement is no longer a distant prospect. The trade part is entering provisional application on 1 May 2026.
In an impulse forum at the DLG Winter Conference 2025 in Münster in mid-February, the DLG Farm Management Committee focussed on a highly relevant topic: ‘The agricultural country Ukraine between war and EU accession’.