Livestock System Articles & Analysis
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Summer temperatures are coming with many businesses, farms, and ranches facing a common challenge: how to manage the intense heat in working environments to ensure employee welfare, animal health, and crop productivity. We will explore together the importance of coping best with the heat and what effective solutions we can apply to improve environmental conditions. ...
This blog is Part Three of our three-part series highlighting livestock ventilation system designs, with a focus on chimney vs. western-style mechanical ventilation systems. ...
This blog is Part Two of our three-part series highlighting livestock ventilation system designs, with a focus on natural ventilation and mechanical ventilation. Read Part One here. Livestock ventilation systems contribute not only to animal health, leading to a higher-quality finished product and better profitability, but also ...
This blog is Part One of our three-part series highlighting livestock ventilation system designs. Livestock farmers understand how important maintaining their animals’ health and comfort is to their bottom line. ...
The goal is to keep stressed animals to a minimum as much as possible, and we have products to help you do just that. Here, we cover common livestock stressors and the solutions to take care of them. SOLUTIONS FOR STRESSED ANIMALS & LIVESTOCK Stressor: Hot or Cold Weather Solution: AGRI-AIDE® Ventilation System Stress caused by hot or ...
With many regions of the world experiencing record droughts and available water becoming more of a concern for many businesses and individuals who own and raise livestock, seeking options and solutions to maintain the health and growth of their animals can be a challenge. ...
The DiSBA (Department of Biology, Agriculture and Food Sciences) of the Italian National Research Council organized the ISPAAM (Institute for Animal Production in the Mediterranean Environment) on 8 and 10 May 2017 in Alghero (Sardinia, Italy) , The 19th Symposium of the EGF (European Grassland Federation) and Digitanimal was present with a great success of assistance and interest in our ...
Livestock marketing system depends on direct sales and livestock auction markets are not well known in Sudan and their significance is also not well recognised. The paper concluded that, auctions are useful in livestock markets for maintaining quality standards, grades and weight measurement systems in these ...
“Evergreen agriculture” practices (where trees are intercropped in annual food crop and livestock systems) help retain water in soils during droughts and prevent landslides and erosion during heavy rain, so reduce vulnerability to climate extremes. ...
Virtually the entire world, including the three largest meat producers -- China, the United States, and Brazil -- now relies heavily on soybean meal as a protein supplement in feed rations. Promising new livestock and dairy systems based on roughage rather than grain, such as India’s cooperative dairy model ...
Compared with traditional cropping systems, integrated crop–livestock systems have shown greater efficiency in improving soil quality and crop yield. The objective of this study was to determine how an integrated crop–livestock system affected soil properties and corn (Zea mays L.) yield when compared with ...
However, they are daylength-sensitive and have minimal cool-season production, resulting in high winter feeding costs in forage-based livestock systems. New germplasm is less daylength-sensitive, possesses greater cold tolerance, and is more productive during the cool season, but its persistence under defoliation is unknown. ...
Forage DM yield was approximately 3300 to 4500 kg ha–1 greater in autumn and spring when cereal rye was interseeded into bermudagrass, but the net increase in forage DM yield for the cereal rye–bermudagrass system was only 1100 to 3300 kg ha–1 yr–1 greater than the unseeded control, which yielded 10,000 kg ha–1. Producers who stock growing or lactating animals in autumn or spring ...
Crop and livestock production are rarely integrated together in modern farming systems. ...
Forage-livestock systems in the U.S. Gulf Coast are based on perennial C4 grasses. System productivity often is predicated on significant inputs of N fertilizer, but rapidly escalating fertilizer prices raise questions about the sustainability of these systems and provide impetus for legume research. ...
Midwest has changed from limited-input, integrated grain–livestock systems to primarily high-input specialized livestock or grain systems. This trend has spawned a debate regarding which cropping systems are more sustainable and led to the question: can diverse, low-input cropping systems ...
Concerns for sustainable development and poverty alleviation are forcing public agricultural research systems to focus on improving livelihoods security. Crop-livestock production systems are central to the livelihood security of the rural poor in India and some other countries of the tropics. With increasing population, urbanisation and incomes, ...