Livestock Production Systems
Framework for life cycle assessment of livestock production systems to account for the nutritional quality of final products
... multiple livestock production ...to production systems, leav- ing limited insight into how on- farm practices can be improved to better balance environment and human ...seven livestock ...
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Typology of cattle livestock production systems in cöte d’ivoire
... cattle livestock production systems were identified in this ...second production system is practiced by farmers from the central region (Bouake Béoumi and Sakassou) where owners do not have ...
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Brief Communication: Re-designing New Zealand’s productivist livestock production systems: Current strategies and next steps
... pastoral livestock production systems (productivist systems) are under significant pressure to reduce environmental impacts, increase biodiversity, animal welfare, and ...few systems ...
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Environmental assessment tools for the evaluation and improvement of European livestock production systems
... from livestock systems are more important to address in a given context will be political decisions, depending on a local or regional/national context and the dis- courses in society (Kristensen and ...
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CROP-LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION SYSTEMS CONTRIBUTIONS TO LIVESTOCK DIET AND FARMERS’ LIVELIHOOD IN IBADAN/ IBARAPA AREA, OYO STATE, NIGERIA
... crop-livestock production system, nine respondents per village, three villages per cell and three cells were randomly selected for Ibadan/Ibarapa area, Oyo state was ...The livestock dietary and ...
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Central West Mitchell Grasslands livestock production systems. Preparing for, responding to, and recovering from drought
... The approach in this strategy was to keep a core cattle herd during a drought, in order to rebuild the herd more quickly once the drought breaks. The core herd was kept regardless of possible animal production, ...
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Competition for land resources: driving forces and consequences in crop-livestock production systems of the Ethiopian highlands
... grain production pressure, and pressure on feed resources are the three major indicators that measure land conversion and food and feed ...and livestock as well as enhance soil fertility. Increasing crop ...
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Development of automated tools based on electronic identification for the improvement of organic livestock production systems
... Technical constraints of livestock production in organic farming systems are numerous and require more attention than in conventional systems. The implementation of individual electronic ...
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Energy Utilization in Crop and Dairy Production in Organic and Conventional Livestock Production Systems
... The fertilizer levels vary between the studied farms but are not on average different from normal practice on Danish dairy farms, and the average 93 kg N ha-’ spring-sown grain used in t[r] ...
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Organic livestock production systems and appropriate development in relation to public expectations
... to livestock, conflicts may appear in the most appropriate keeping practice related to consideration of the basic aspects of their innate behaviour on one hand, the risk of pollution from the production on ...
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Precision livestock farming: precision feeding technologies and sustainable livestock production
... market, livestock producers must have access to timely production related ...of production related information on livestock farms will be essential for improving animal productivity in the ...
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Crop-Livestock Interactions in Smallholders’ Market Participation: Evidence from Crop-Livestock Mixed Systems in Ethiopia
... or livestock markets separately (Lapar et ...markets, livestock usually enters the crop market participation equation as a wealth indicator or as alternative income source to crop sales, assuming that ...
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Livestock GRACEnet: A workgroup dedicated to evaluating and mitigating emissions from livestock production
... from livestock operations can potentially affect air quality at local, regional, and even global ...from livestock production systems will ultimately increase on farm costs, which will then be ...
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Urban livestock keeping in the city of Nairobi: Diversity of production systems, supply chains and their disease management and risks
... Triangulation was followed for the purpose of this project, through an iterative process of careful analysis of the content of the memos produced by researchers during the FDGs with the respective audio/video recordings ...
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Optimising the production and utilisation of forage for organic livestock (CTE0202)
... organic systems may lead to N pollution if grazing, forage conservation and animal management strategies are not designed to utilise these crops ...organic systems, may in fact be relatively more polluting ...
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Evaluation of livestock feed balance under mixed crop–livestock production system in the central highlands of Ethiopia
... larger livestock herd ...that livestock can forage from the lim- ited communal grazing due to continuous grazing and the mismatch between the feed supply potential of the land and the number of animals ...
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Livestock Production Value and Economic Impact for Nebraska Counties
... Livestock production provides a significant economic impact in ...to livestock and the industry accounted for over 50 per- cent of agricultural commodity sales each year since the ...of ...
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Climate-smart livestock production at landscape level in Kenya
... food production requires the transformation of current agriculture towards sustainable food production ...agricultural systems that are well adapted and resilient to the various effects of climate ...
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Analysis of livestock production practices in the northern region of Côte d’ivoire
... in livestock productivity, especially for farmers with small units (Hoste, ...the production systems and management of animal genetic resources in general and cattle breeds in ...
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Concepts of Animal Health and Welfare in Organic Livestock Systems
... of livestock systems with high animal welfare in accordance with the basic organic principles, even in situations where the agricultural sector is under great pressure, ...
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