API IKM certificate Flemish dairy farmers

IKM Flanders

This API is made available by IKM Flanders. It gives you an overview of the IKM certification of the Flemish dairy farmers linked to the correct PE number.

Interested in these data? DjustConnect will make sure your data request reaches IKM. After approval, the data request is forwarded to the concerned farmers. In this way, data sharing is 100% Code of Conduct proof, without managing authorisations yourself. In 1 connection you get, after approval of the data owner, access to the data. DjustConnect also ensures that all transactions are legally correct.

  • Latest IKM certification status
  • All Flemish dairy farmers
  • Info about more than 100 assurance points as part of Integral Milk Quality Management
  • Linked to PE number of the dairy farms

Which data?

IKM-Flanders provides all Flemish dairy farmers with an API with the status of IKM certification. The IKM certification guarantees good agricultural practice on the dairy farm. The specifications describe more than one hundred assurance points in six essential components of the milk production method

  • Animal health
  • Animal welfare
  • Milk production
  • Hygiene
  • Cleaning
  • Environment

in which existing regulations are endorsed and supplemented with a number of points of good agricultural practice.

In addition to the certification status, this API also gives the visit date, the certificate number and the specification number.

Technical information

All API's on DjustConnect are REST API's.

This API can be called with an HTTP GET call and returns a JSON response.

Mutual TLS authentication (client certificate authentication) is used for authentication. In addition it is necessary to add the following value to the HTTP Headers: "DjustConnect-Subscription-Key" with the key value that can be found in the DjustConnect Portal.

All APIs are made available through Azure API Management.


Identification number

Do you use a number other than the PE number to identify your farmers?

No problem! Via the DjustConnect Identification Mapping API you can easily link this PE number to your own identification number.