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About us

About us

Cerzoo: an innovative agro-livestock farm, designing and testing new paths in sustainable farming, improving agroecology, applying regenerative cropping, animal welfare and sustainable practices in livestock production.


The Research center for livestock and environment is the research and extension farm of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore which was deeply renewed thanks to the Invernizzi Foundation funding to turn it into a model of agro-livestock farm able to run sustainable practices and assure animal welfare.

Cerzoo hosts a modern dairy farm, equipped with facilities designed to study applications aimed at improving production efficiency, animal welfare, and sustainability in the context of circularity. In the barn, every cow is fitted with sensors monitoring health, body weight, behavior, quantity, and product quality.

Facilities have been made with special attention to microclimatic control, taking advantage of natural ventilation and including an automatic air system in every season. Moreover, it is possible to set the photoperiod (light-dark cycle) according to specific research objectives. Cows are constantly monitored for feed intake. Also in the calf barn, there are automatic systems that allow the individual control of milk and feed intake.


Board of Directors:

Stefano Boccaletti

Associate Professor at the Department of Agro-Food Economics of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza and Cremona, and instructor of Agro-Food Economics and Industrial Organization for the degrees in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences and in Economics and Law.
Since 2016 he is Director of the Master Program in Agri-food Business based in Cremona.
He is an expert of the economics of food and his research activity concerns the analysis of consumer behavior, the economics of food safety and quality and vertical coordination in the food supply chain. He participated as a speaker at national and international conferences and collaborated in national and European research projects on specific economic topics of the agro-food sector.
He also authored and co-authored many scientific and informative publications and affiliated to the main national and international associations of agricultural economists.

Paolo Rezoagli

Chartered Accountant and Auditor in Piacenza since 1993.
Graduated in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan. In the course of his professional activity he provides tax and corporate consultancy; design of management control systems, and he has taken various positions in the corporate bodies of companies and cooperatives, also of local government-owned companies such as Enia Ltd, Motorways Centropadane, Acer Piacenza, Seta spa (joint-stock company), Tempi Agenzia Ltd and Polipiacenza; auditor in public accounting as Municipalities and Provinces.
Currently, besides positions on the boards of directors and boards of auditors of private companies and cooperatives, he holds the position of Chairman of the board of directors of the Mobility and Public Transport Company of Parma spa (joint-stock company) and of Auditor of the Regional Civil Protection Agency of Emilia Romagna.

Vincenzo Tabaglio

Associate Professor in Agronomy and Field Crops at the Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Piacenza, Italy) where he works at the Department of Sustainable Crop Production.
He teaches General Agronomy; Agriculture and Climate Change (Agroecology module); Organic Agriculture; Precision Agriculture (Field Crop and Horticulture).
Main research areas: agroecology; conservation agriculture; organic agriculture; soil health; soil fertility and plant nutrition; optimization of agro-techniques for environmental protection; reduced tillage and no-till; cover crop; alternative weed control with allelopathic cover crops; forage crops; greenhouse gas emissions, sub-surface drip irrigation; alternative crops (quinoa); sustainable intensification of agriculture in developing Countries.
He authored over 220 scientific and technical papers. He is Associate Editor for Agriculture for Sustainable Development (Springer) and for Agronomy (MDPI).

Giuseppe Terzaghi

Dr. Giuseppe Terzaghi was born in Cavacurta (LO) on 9 August 1965, into a family of farmers. In 1985 he graduated in classical high school P. Verri (LO). He enrols in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (MI) which he leaves, after passing several exams, due to family concerns.
In 2007 he graduated in Agricultural Sciences at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (PC) with the thesis: Comparison between conventional and no-tillage on barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) in the Lombard plain, with Prof. Vincenzo Tabaglio as supervisor.
In 2008 he obtained the qualification to practice as an agronomist. He teaches for a year at the Villa Igea Agricultural Technical Institute (LO).
At the same time, he directs and works in the family farm, devoted to livestock and vegetables production, in organic farming. Since the ’80, he has been using sod seeding and/or minimal tillage. The passion for nature has always inspired his work choices, as demonstrated by the adoption of conservation agriculture, as well as by the conversion to the organic farming.

Erminio Trevisi

Full Professor in Animal Science at the Department of Animal Sciences, Food and Nutrition (DIANA), Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.
Degree in Agricultural Science. Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology. Charge of academic courses: “Advanced animal physiology”; “Livestock Precision: ruminants”; “Adaptation and animal welfare”.
Research activity: ruminant physiology (dairy cows in particular), transition period, modulation of the immune response in the peripartum; pathophysiology of nutrition; nutrigenomics; animal welfare; precision livestock technologies; milk and dairy quality; environmental sustainability of the dairy supply chain.
Author of 190 peer reviewed articles (www.scopus.com), popular science articles and book. Invited Speaker in national and international conferences.
Member of many Animal Sciences Societies: ASPA, EAAP, ADSA. Member of the Steering Committees of SISVet and ARNA.