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Intensity of Italy's agri–food trade with countries outside the EU Mediterranean
This paper aims to present a framework of trade relations between Italy and the countries of southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. More specifically, using the indicators proposed in the analysis of international trade, we want to analyse the intensity of trade in agri–food products and the strength of trade ties between the bordering Mediterranean countries. The analysis of the ...
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Pyrethroid insecticides in municipal wastewater
Pyrethroids are widely used insecticides, but there is minimal published information on their presence in municipal wastewater in the United States. Pyrethroids in wastewater from the Sacramento, California area, consisted of permethrin, bifenthrin, cypermethrin, and cyhalothrin with a combined concentration of 200–500 ng/L. Sampling within the wastewater collection system leading to the ...
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COOL: A salute to consumers in the International Year of Family Farming
This month we are celebrating one particular aspect of the International Year of Family Farming: the consumer. In order to be successful, family farmers must always have consumers and their needs in mind, which is why NFU has been a long-time champion of Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) for meat, poultry and seafood. More than 90 percent of consumers want to know the origin of their food, and ...
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Recycling of raw corn cob residues as an agricultural waste material for ammonium removal: kinetics, isotherms, and mechanisms
Corn cob is an agricultural by-product worldwide available in large amounts. In this study, the potential of raw corn cob as a natural lignocellulosic waste material of no economic value was investigated for the removal of ammonium ions from aqueous solution. Sorption capacities of raw granular corn cob (GCC) for ammonium ions were evaluated in simulated and actual wastewater samples. The FT-IR ...
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How the wild rabbit became domesticated
An international collaboration involving INRA research scientists has evidenced the impact of domestication of the rabbit on its genetic heritage, thanks to sequencing of its genome. In particular, the scientists have shown that the genes controlling brain and neuronal development were specifically targeted by the domestication process. These results, published on 29 August 2014 in Science, help ...
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Incidence of Aeromonas species isolated from water and fish sources of Lake Manzala in Egypt
Lake Manzala situated in the east of Nile Delta, between the Damietta branch of Nile River and Suez Canal. The lake receives pollution from different sources, which make the lake polluted and eutrophicated. Samples were taken from five sites of the lake. Faecal coliforms showed the highest counts 2.2× 10 3 cfu ml –1 and 4× 10 3 cfu ml –1 in water in El-Kapoty and El-Mataryia areas, ...
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Top Tips to Save Money, Use Sprayer Efficiently
Using clean water when calibrating a pesticide sprayer and carrying extra nozzles for quick repair of simple problems in the field are just some of the tricks of the trade that can help growers save time, energy and money during spraying season, says a spray technology expert in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University. Because there are so many ...
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A simple approach to assess N load capacity of rice paddy fields in the southern Taihu Lake watershed
High nitrogen (N) leaching from irrigated agricultural soils is the result of N input exceeding soil N load capacity (NLC). A simple approach was developed in this research to assess the NLC of paddy soils in the southern Taihu Lake watershed. Paddy soils were classified into four types (Submergenic, Illuvium, Gleyed, and Percogenic) and 28 soil samples representing all four types were ...
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A hundred-year perspective on sustainability
“I’m proud to have the privilege of working for a company whose environmental efforts are characterised by both a long-term approach and a sense of responsibility,” comments Anna Mårtensson, Environmental Manager at Iggesund Paperboard’s Swedish production facility, Iggesund Mill. “Today our environmental impact is almost non-existent compared with the ...
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Champion Cornish: Origin
The next installment of our Champion Cornish blog series focuses on Origin Coffee. Origin are leaders in the field when it comes to producing artisan coffee. They certainly know their stuff with Dan Fellows being rated Number 1 in the 2016 UK Barista Championships, Number 2 in the 2015 UK Coffee in Good Spirits and Number 1 of the same accolade in 2012. It’s not just Dan either. Head of ...
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Maximising growth rates in lambs`
Maximising growth rates in lambs A farm study carried out at Lemmington Hill Head, in conjunction with Brian Dugdale, from Mole Country Stores, Alnwick, shows that offering the correct supplementation can optimize growth and profits. The farm has a flock of Aberfield ewes which lambed between mid-March and early May, with alambing percentage of around 180%. The study involved a group of just ...
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Antibiotics and the Livestock Industry
The Earth’s population has more than quadrupled in the last 150 years, which has led to dramatic changes in the livestock industry because farmers had to increase the density of animals in order to meet demand. As a result of the increased proximity of animals to one another, disease became a huge problem. Subsequently, antibiotics began being commonly used on livestock farms. Originally, ...
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Organic Fertilizer Benefits
Organic Fertilizer Benefits – Why not use synthetic fertilizers? It’s a reasonable question. After all, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium ARE chemicals, so where is the advantage in these bags of heavy, grainy stuff, that need to be measured and mixed and then dug in, when you can just pick up a small plastic bottle of the blue stuff? There are several organic fertilizer benefits, ...
By Organiksa SA
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Newcastle Disease in Poultry - Coming to the UK?
This month the risk for incursion of Newcastle Disease in the UK has been raised to Medium due to two new outbreaks in Belgium, reported at commercial poultry premises. This disease can be serious for poultry and leads to fatalities within 24 hours of contraction. Symptoms Gov.co.uk describes the symptoms to look out for in poultry: respiratory distress such as gaping beak, coughing, sneezing, ...
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Ceramic filters in the fertilizer industry - Case Study
Mantec’s Porous Ceramic Technology is benefiting the Fertilizer Industry in the efficient production of Nitric Acid. For many years, Mantec Technical Ceramics Ltd has been a key supplier of Ceramic Filtration Tubes to the Fertilizer Industry. This Case Study explains how the industry has benefited from the use of Mantec’s porous ceramic technology. Ammonia is used within fertilizers ...
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HDPE Pond Liner UK for Fish Farming Project
Pond liner UK is the high density polyethylene (HDPE) liner applied for fish farm pond in England. HDPE pond liner is impermeable to many different solvents and the most widely used geomembrane liner in the world, it is the preferred products for lining projects. BPM brand pond liner includes smooth geommebrane, textured geomembrane and composite geomembrane, and it is available in ...
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Important to know what`s going on in the slabs
Daily measurements of the slab by hand meter give essential information on what is going on in the slabs. This is important to confirm the readings of any fixed sensors and to show the standard deviation across the glasshouse. This data will give more potential control over the crop to increase yield and quality as well as more efficient use of water and fertilisers. The substrate manufacturer ...
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R2 for mitigating the risk of PEDV, PRRSV and SVA - contaminated feed using an animal challenge model - Case Study
Introduction The porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) epidemic in 2013 - 2014 caused high morbidity and mortality for hog farmers throughout North America. Animal feed was identified at that time as a risk factor and one of the potential vehicles to spread the viral disease. Feed Energy's R2 line of products delivers essential nutrients to the animal through the feed source and has proven to ...
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How to use the Cool Farm Tool to track no-till success
The change of conventional agricultural production systems to a more regenerative approach is known to benefit the soil and the environment, and is gaining increasing interest from growers around the globe. Such regenerative practices, however, require determination and commitment. Jake Freestone, farm manager of the Cotswold farm in Overbury (UK), has shown both over the past decade when he ...
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Soft Fruits Early Spring Fertilizers
Early-spring maintenance of soft fruit trees is important to start the growing season correctly and to prepare the trees for healthy, vigorous growth and an abundant harvest. Without early-spring fertilizing, fruit trees may suffer unnecessarily stunted or weak growth and damage. Here are the perfect tips from Oligro to start early spring fertilizing. Fertilizers: 16-8-24 Fertilizer Boroni ...
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