Livestock and feed
Feeding proteins to livestock: Global land use and food vs. feed competition
... feeding livestock. First, we estimate the protein composition of an averaged feed basket at the global scale in 2005 and detail the evolution of the protein-source feed component during the ...
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Agroecology : integration with livestock
... intensive livestock systems Compared with agroecological systems sensu stricto, systems based on industrial ecology have a highly controlled composition and a much looser link to the ...treat and ...
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Dynamics of livestock farming in extensive livestock farming territories: what processes are going on?
... grass and on vast areas is declining in all the systems studied, for reasons that come under four categories, sometimes in ...Pampa, and developments such as rice paddy fields in the Sahel, limit the access ...
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Combining Individual Phenotypes of Feed Intake With Genomic Data to Improve Feed Efficiency in Sea Bass
... pigs and rabbits, the results were used to set up a selection procedure based on selection of faster growing animals under restricted ...residual feed intake under ad libitum ...restricted and ad ...
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Cost, return analysis and constraints in livestock production and marketing in Hai Duong, Vietnam
... occurrence and the outbreak of ...of livestock producers. Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (VBARD) and People Credit Funds (PCFs), two commercial banks, basically supplied ...
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The Effects of Feed Restriction and Isolated or Group Rearing on the Measurement of Individual Feed Intake and Estimation of Feed Conversion Ratio in Juvenile Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) for Selective Breeding Purposes
... rabbits and pigs selection for growth using a restricted feed ration was shown to improve feed efficiency of their progenies even when they were held in conditions where they were fed to satiety ( ...
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Livestock and Agroecology: redesigning animal production systems in the 21st century
... may and should be considered for increasing efficiency in the processes, for ...herds, feed resources and ...principles and bases is discussed. Systems must be evaluated in a different way ...
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Livestock and the environment: what have we learned in the past decade?
... goat, and dairy) output comes from mixed systems in which there is a significant use of cropland-produced feeds such as grains, hay, and ...these feed types amount to small fractions of average ...
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Propagation-loss Characterization for Livestock Implantables at 433, 868, and 1400 MHz
... ESULTS AND DISCUSSION ...868, and 1400 MHz for each individual cow ...5) and an average of ...of feed in the cows’ rumen. Also, the position of the antenna and the distance to the ...
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Eradication of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus and the Wildlife-Livestock Interface
... reports and research at the wildlife-livestock interface make a strong case that wildlife hosts can no longer be ignored in the epidemiology of ...wildlife and livestock may delay PPRV ...
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Agonistic behaviour and feed efficiency in juvenile Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus
... residual feed intake, another trait estimating feed efficiency, was not correlated with any of the agonistic behaviours measured at the individual ...that feed efficiency measured on individually ...
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Earthworms use odor cues to locate and feed on microorganisms in soil
... water and then with norvanol before being dried overnight at ...chamber and allowed to make choices (the specific numbers used for each assay are listed in table ...
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Analytical and experimental study of feed rate in high-speed milling
... Industrial Application The procedure of determining the feed rate was applied to a machined die of the Tunisian manufacture SIAF (Figure 17 and Figure 18). The final HSM configuration adopted for this ...
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New tools for precision livestock management
... In this work we consider two parameters for the calculation of contacts within the trajectory concept, which are set for FMD but that are common to other diseases as well. The first one is the number of days necessary to ...
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Mapping livestock movements in Sahelian Africa
... for livestock movements in the wet and dry seasons obtained with the landscape connectivity ...crossed and animals are forced to use tracks alongside the ...Senegal and Mauritania. Areas ...
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A Bayesian approach to feed reconstruction
... In this framework, a feed reconstruction model should combine the detailed information from the laboratory with the bulk information of the feedstock measured in the[r] ...
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ATOL: The Multi-species Livestock Trait Ontology
... experts and corpus-based acquisition [?]. The reuse ensures consistency and in- ...[?] and well- adapted to the design of scientific ...extraction and ontology learning, term candidates still ...
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Vulnerability assessment of livestock and grasslands to climate change and extreme events (VALIDATE project)
... of livestock breeding practices and the vulnerability of livestock ...PASIM and STICS, will be used in its version coupled to the economic model AROPAGE to simulate adaptations and ...
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Livestock genome annotation: transcriptome and chromatin structure profiling in cattle, goat, chicken and pig
... cell and investigate the underlying regulatory ...stages and phenotypes cannot be undertaken by a single project on all species, standardized procedures for both data production and analysis need to ...
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Construction of individual breeding values for feed intake of Piétrain boars based on mean pen feed intake, weight and weight gain test station records
... 2 Walloon Pig Breeders Association (AWEP) – Ciney, Belgium 3 Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (CRA-W) – Gembloux, Belgium 4 National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS) – Brus[r] ...
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