Its applied research work extends from plants to animals, and has both an overall and pragmatic approach to the challenges linked to agriculture and nutrition.
Its projects cover a number of topics and are focused on five major research programmes:

Some statistics
- 300 trials / year
- 214 ha
- 1 600 tested diets
- 55 people in the team
- 35 MiXscience Researchers
Animals
- 140 dairy cows
- 120 young bovines
- 220 sows
- 6 000 meat poultry
- 1 200 laying poultry
- 160 does