Intern: Sustainable Dairy Diets & Co-Products

FrieslandCampina; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 7,000 - 10,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal development

Professional supervision

Collaborative project

Team with sustainability expertise

Job summary

FrieslandCampina in Wageningen, Netherlands, offers an MSc internship on Sustainable Diets for Dairy Cows. You will investigate how moist and liquid co-products in dairy cow diets affect Milk production sustainability, starting with literature review and stakeholder interviews, and using farm data to compare sustainability KPIs.

You will work with Duynie and FrieslandCampina experts, collect relevant data, evaluate trade-offs, assess economic feasibility, and document results in an internal

Qualifications

• MSc student in a relevant field with strong data handling and data analysis skills.
• Interest in dairy cow nutrition and sustainability of dairy farming.
• EU nationality or enrolled at a Dutch educational institute.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze farm data on liquid and moist co-products and other feed components and sustainability performance.
• Compare sustainability performance of farms with co-products vs. without co-products.
• Evaluate the effects of including different co-products on sustainability indicators and costs.
• Identify parameters for including co-products in diets favorable for sustainability.
• Record results in an internal report and share conclusions with internal stakeholders.

Skills

Data handling

Data analysis

Interest in sustainability

Dairy knowledge

Education

MSc (WO) student in a relevant field

Tools

Data mining

Literature review

Job description

FrieslandCampina in Wageningen, Netherlands, offers an MSc internship on Sustainable Diets for Dairy Cows. You will investigate how moist and liquid co-products in dairy cow diets affect Milk production sustainability, starting with literature review and stakeholder interviews, and using farm data to compare sustainability KPIs.

You will work with Duynie and FrieslandCampina experts, collect relevant data, evaluate trade-offs, assess economic feasibility, and document results in an internal