Agricultural animal research infrastructure – the Swedish Livestock Research Centre at SLU

About us

Fees and principles for pricing

Disease control rules

The research infrastructure in Uppsala offers animal housing and lecture rooms for research and teaching. There are facilities for dairy cattle, pigs and poultry.

Contact research- and education coordinators to make an enquiry utbildning-vh-ladugard@slu.se

More contacts

Study Visits at the Swedish Livestock Research Centre at Lövsta may be scheduled as time permits and are restricted to the observation room overlooking the facility for cattle and calves and calving department.

Book a room for a conference at the Swedish Livestock Research Centre at SLU. The conference rooms are situated at the upper floor in the same building as the dairy cattle unit.

Contact us

Cattle: Blandskap - Sustainable food production and biodiversity with grazing animals

Pig: Dynamic sow

Cattle: Alternative to antibiotics in bull semen extenders to reduce antimicrobial resistance, II: an artificial insemination trial

Cattle: Smells Like Welfare – Olfactory Conditioning of Cattle 

Cattle: Are Swedish cows cool enough?

Research infrastructures at SLU

As of January 1, 2023, the research infrastructures Röbäcksdalen dairy research facility in Umeå and the Swedish Livestock Research Centre in Uppsala are managed under VH Barn Operations at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science.

To facilitate travel for students and staff attending meetings and lectures, a shuttle bus service operates twice a day between campus Ultuna and Lövsta.

At campus Ultuna the bus stops just outside VHC; at Lövsta it stops in the parking lot by the main entrance.

Bus departure times:

07:30: campus Ultuna - Lövsta

12:00: Lövsta - campus Ultuna

________________________

12:30: campus Ultuna - Lövsta

16:45: Lövsta - campus Ultuna