DEPARTMENT OF AgRONOMIC AND ANIMAL SCIENCES

DEpartment of Agronomic and
Animal Sciences
The Department of Agronomic and Animal Sciences is one of LaSalle Beauvais’ five teaching and
research departments. Its purpose is to understand, promote and manage cultivated ecosystems and
the adjoining land. A team of experts is committed to studying these issues, and this involves applying
a multidisciplinary approach at many different levels, from individual plant and animal cells right through
to land management, via animals and plants, populations, production systems such as crops and animal
rearing, and farming. The work that is carried out by the Department in these areas is supported by an
active network of partners, including institutions, research bodies and businesses in the industry.
• In Agronomic Sciences: Agriculture, Biotechnologies and Plant
Diseases, Cell and Molecular Biology, Analytical Chemistry facilities
• In Animal Sciences: Pre-clinical Food Assessment facility and 2
animal production units (dairy and brood cows, bull-calves – see
the website for further information)
EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS
AND ACHIEVEMENTS
10 ACADEMIC STAFF MEMBERS
View their CVs on our website
Expertise in Agronomic Sciences
• Sustainable agriculture and crop protection
• Agronomy, applied soil sciences, regional agronomic
diagnostics, soils and land, soils and farming
• Classification and operation of farms, agri-environmental
diagnostics, agricultural techniques analysis
• Varietal selection, method for physicochemical analysis,
experimentation
Specific expertise in Ecology
• Agroecology, plant ecophysiology, statistics and modelling
• Restoring biodiversity and features of natural and anthropogenic
habitats
Expertise in Animal Sciences
• Animal behaviour and well-being
• Animal nutrition and health, milk production, automatic milking
systems, ruminants and breeding systems, fodder systems
• Zootechnics
• Industrial microbiology, animal vaccines and parasite
treatments, GLP (Good Laboratory Practice), GCP (Good
Clinical Practice)
Associated scientific and technological facilities
The department uses state-of-the-art scientific infrastructures for
its research, and particularly:
In Agronomic Sciences
• Production and quality of tubers and potato crop management
(Qualtec)
• Agricultural and Environmental Diagnostics by Geographic Region
• Optimisation of biomass supply in non-food application
programmes, taking into account the specific characteristics of the
land being used (Optabiom)
• Soils and crop rooting
• Tolerance of wheat to biotic and abiotic stress
• Agroforestry plot: improving the agro-environmental efficiency of
agroforestry systems in large-scale cropping systems
In Animal Sciences
• Behaviour of dairy cows when using a milking robot
• Zootechnical effects of nitrogen supplementation in dairy cows
• Performance evaluation of weaned piglets fed on prebiotic fibre
• Performance evaluation of bull-calves fed on yeast industry
by-products
• Effect of adding live yeast on the performance of Charolais
bull-calves given dry feed
• Laying performance and effect of pigment-deficient diet on the
viability of young quails
Department OF AGRONOMIC AND ANIMAL SCIENCES
Academic partners
“Culture and tradition of wine” UNESCO Chair programme, Institut
Supérieur d’Agriculture de Lille, University of Picardy Jules Verne
(UPJV), University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)
Institutions and Associations
Agro-transfert Ressources et territoires (Agricultural transfer
Resources and Land), Arbre et Paysage 32 (Trees and Landscape),
French Association of Agroforestry, Land Management
Associations, Permanent Centres for Environmental Initiatives
(CPIE) Val d’Authie, French Association of Agronomy (AFA),
Chambers of Agriculture (Oise, Somme, Aisne, Picardy, Brittany,
Poitou-Charente, Charente Maritime, Deux Sèvres, Seine-etMarne), Picardy Nature Preservation Society, Federation of
Regional Natural Parks (PNR), PNR Oise Pays de France, PNR
Boucles de Seine, Biological Agriculture Research Group (GRAB),
Ministry of Agriculture, Mission Bocage technical and local
development advisory group
Trade organisations and technical institutes
Association of Agricultural Technology Centres (ACTA), Arvalis plant
institute, ELC3, Regional Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives
(FRCA), Institute of animal rearing, Beetroot Technical Institute (ITB)
Research bodies: French National Institute for Agricultural
Research (INRA: Orléans, Colmar, Grignon, Laon, Montpellier,
Tours and the Infosol Unit), Institut Supérieur d’Agriculture de Lille.
Competitive clusters: Céréales Vallée, Industries and
Agro-Resources (IAR)
WE PROUDLY WORK WITH
Agroof Développement, Alltech, Bayer Crop Science, Delaval, In
Vivo NSA, Laboulet Semences, Lin 2000, Linea, Roquette Frères,
Sanders, Société Agricole du Vexin Normand (SAVN), Sogal
Contacts /
Jean-Didier CLEMENT – Head of Department
Tel +33 (0)3 44 06 25 34
Fax +33 (0)3 44 06 25 26
Email [email protected]
Department Assistants’ Office:
Tel +33 (0)3 44 06 75 91 or +33 (0)3 44 06 25 40
www.lasalle-beauvais.fr
Please contact us if you would like any information about continuing education.
Continuing education organisation accreditation number: 22600012460
LaSalle Beauvais is a not-for-profit organization created under the 1901 Act - ISAB founded in 1854 – IGAL founded in 1875 – Merger of ISAB and IGAL in 2006 to
become LaSalle Beauvais – 2009: Reaccreditation for the maximum period (6 years) by the Commission of the Engineering Title (CTI) for the programMEs in
Agriculture, Food and Health Sciences and Geology. Accreditation by the CTI for the 3-year Engineering Apprenticeship programMEs in Agriculture and
Food and Health Sciences. The Apprenticeship programMEs are part of the 5 year engineering training.
Non contractual document, for information only - May 2011
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