beef cattle farming Articles
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South East framing review
Drilling a borehole on a farm can cost less than a conventional water supply and cut the carbon footprint from pumping and treating mains water. "There is an environmental as well as a cost argument for drilling a borehole,' said Ben Nicholls, joint managing director with his brother Richard of Nicholls Boreholes, which is based in West Sussex. Nicholls Boreholes is in an office on an organic ...
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Simulating gross primary productivity of humid-temperate pastures
Although most pasture growth models simulate many above- and belowground components of the plant community, calibration and validation are usually based only on periodic measurements of aboveground forage yield. This research used daily measurements of gross primary productivity (GPP) to validate the photosynthesis subroutine of the Integrated Farm System Model (IFSM). The model was calibrated ...
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Reducing the Effects of Methane from Cows in Cattle Farming with Methane Monitors
In 2018, there were an estimated 1.002 billion head of cattle worldwide, an increase of 6.5 million head over 2017.1 Global meat production has continued, and is seemingly continuing, to rise and although cattle now accounts for a relatively smaller percentage of overall meat consumption, there were still over 68 billion tonnes of cattle meat produced in 2014.2 Beef exported from the US alone in ...
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