Jokioinen livestock research infrastructure

The research infrastructure of the Jokioinen Livestock Research includes a research barn, a multifunctional livestock research facility and a biogas plant. It includes a modelling environment for the milk and feed production chain and research platforms for poultry and pigs. Research in Jokioinen includes genetically sustainable dairy production, livestock production, animal nutrition and welfare, and the environmental impact of farm animals. 

• 125 farm animals
• CowLab: individual animal tracking and tracing system, feed monitoring, production monitoring
• metabolic chambers: system for measuring methane production in farm animals
• feed preparation equipment
• individual physiology and health measurement systems for farm animals
• animal handling and processing facilities
• embryo processing room 
• manure removal equipment
• drying equipment

• Research equipment, feeding strategies and production systems for small-scale pig and poultry research
• Separate sections for meat production and egg laying poultry, piglets and fattening pigs
• Spacious feed hall for large and small feed batches
• Individual or group feeding of animals according to experimental design
• Standardised rearing conditions
• Hatching of eggs into chicks
• Animal handling and processing facilities
• Multi-purpose research facility for research such as feed digestibility, animal growth and feed efficiency, end product quality, animal physiology and microbiome measurements

• The farm-scale biogas plant was completed in 2023 at the Luke Jokioinen research barn. Plant reactor size: 1100m3. 
• Based on wet anaerobic digestion technology.
• Produces both energy and dry matter or fertiliser products from biomass and side streams. 
• The energy produced is recovered as heat and electricity.
• The plant will allow, for example, to study the effects of different feed materials and digestate treatment in combination with Luke's Biopaja research platform.