I have been using Biocheck.Ugent for the past 10 years and have been very satisfied with both the tool and the excellent support provided by the Biocheck team. It offers a clear and systematic approach to assessing livestock biosecurity, helping to identify areas that require improvement. The results are easy to interpret and can be readily compared with others using the same system, enabling meaningful benchmarking at regional, national, and even international levels.
No doubt that Biocheck is the queen of biosecurity surveys, it’s my first option if I need any support. There is always a way to work with them!
“Since we incorporated Biocheck in the AHI pig programme, farms have repeated the assessment and improved their internal and external biosecurity scores. We train the vets, the vets advise each farm, and we also use the results to find weak areas for controlling Salmonella and PRRS. Biocheck is a tool to help decision making, but it’s the way you support farmers that makes the difference.”
Our collaboration with Biocheck.UGent enables us to objectively assess biosecurity levels using a scientifically validated and independent tool, supported by access to a large international database. The real value for us lies in combining Biocheck’s scientific framework with Royal Agrifirm Group’s own knowledge, field experience, and practical application on farms. This combination allows us to translate data into actionable improvements, helping our customers strengthen biosecurity and support sustainable, profitable swine production.
Biocheck.Ugent is an important tool that supports meaningful dialogue around biosecurity and enables its objective measurement. It provides a practical framework for assessing biosecurity levels while clearly demonstrating good practices and required production standards. From the perspective of K2 Agro, Biocheck.Ugent is a practical solution that supports advisory work and helps align expectations between farmers, advisors, and industry partners.
Using Biocheck.Ugent in Pakistan demonstrated its true strength as a globally validated biosecurity quantification tool. Despite the distinct management structures and constraints of intensive broiler production systems in South Asia, the platform remained fully applicable and produced meaningful, actionable biosecurity scores that directly informed my PhD research.
I work as a Product Portfolio Manager for Swine at Agrifirm Brazil. I am an Animal Nutritionist and responsible for the development of swine nutrition products. I don't work directly with biosecurity, but it is present in the day-to-day operations of the farms that I visit to provide technical support. I observe that biosecurity is becoming increasingly essential in industrial-scale animal production. It has a very significant impact on achieving swine performance responses, considering nutritional profiles to reach the maximum genetic potential of the animals. Nutrition programs with high nutritional concentration for high performance require well-executed biosecurity.
The quality of the classes, the way they were taught, and the Biocheck.Ugent team are excellent. There is still much to be done globally in terms of biosecurity in swine production.
I recommend Biocheck.Ugent to pig producers because it is an excellent "tool," and I emphasize that this investment is essential to improve the health, quality, and performance of the animals, as well as the financial results of your company.
The biosecurity training provided me with essential skills to assess and explore the risk‑based biosecurity status of more than 52 Ethiopian commercial broiler farms as part of my doctoral research at Ghent University. The Biocheck.Ugent tool has been particularly invaluable—its advanced features allowed us to access our data online with ease, conduct consistent evaluations, and continue with detailed analyses that are now in preparation for scientific publication. I truly appreciate the clarity, scientific rigor, and practical impact that Biocheck.Ugent brings to both research and field application, and I highly recommend it to anyone striving to improve farm biosecurity.
I am very grateful to have taken part in this training. It was not only practical and informative but also truly inspiring. I especially appreciated the balance between theory and hands-on experience, and being able to test the Biocheck.Ugent tool directly on a real farm made everything come alive. The clear explanations of proper steps in biosecurity assessment, including discussions of the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches and finding fast, appropriate solutions, gave me confidence to apply what I learned. This course is invaluable for veterinarians, farmers, and researchers, and I feel fortunate to have been part of it.
Since African Swine Fever reached Vietnam, biosecurity has become a priority for the pig sector. Biocheck.Ugent trained researchers and technicians at VIAVS to assess 72 small and medium pig farms in Hanoi and Dong Nai, and added a behavioural framework to understand how farmers adopt change. Including Biocheck ensured rigour of evidence, and the results are helping to generate evidence for informing the development of a national biosecurity strategy.
We introduced Biocheck.Ugent to harmonise how official veterinary inspectors assess biosecurity across the Czech Republic, using one structured, objective methodology nationwide. Our inspectors now use it on commercial poultry, pig and cattle farms. Discussing the results with farmers reveals weaknesses that might otherwise go unnoticed, and lets inspectors recommend targeted measures where farms score below average, supporting continuous improvement in disease prevention at farm level.