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Influence of Shows on Productive Values in Beef Cattle [PDF]

, 1950
A. E. Darlow
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Using participatory scenario planning to explore the synergies and trade‐offs from upland treescape expansion

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The future of land use in the UK uplands is highly debated, with growing interest in increasing tree cover and other land use changes, alongside a desire to maintain traditional land use patterns and practices. Treescape expansion is likely to result in synergies and trade‐offs between different outcomes, so integrating stakeholder preferences
Melissa Minter, Susan Baker, Euan Bowditch, Sheena Carlisle, Natasha Constant, Alix Syder, Tom Finch   +6 more
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Compost amendments up to one inch restore dry rangeland soil health

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Rangelands harbor immense diversity and provide ecosystem services across vast swaths of land while supporting rural economies and the food system, but degraded rangelands may require active management to restore diversity and function. We added varying amounts of compost to understand if there are linear or saturating effects on vegetation and soil ...
Eva Stricker, Emily Cornell, Zach Withers   +2 more
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The conditioning environment mediates soil biological legacies, while plant traits mediate corresponding responses among Medicago sativa cultivars

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Alfalfa is the most widely cultivated perennial forage crop in the world, supporting livestock production and contributing to global food systems. However, soil degradation and declining productivity threaten the long‐term sustainability of alfalfa pastures.
Martina Cardoni, Aisa Kuper‐Psenicnik, John Paul Wasan, Jonathan A. Bennett   +3 more
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Tick species, tick-borne pathogen distribution and risk factor analysis in border areas of China, Russia and North Korea

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
IntroductionTicks are important ectoparasites of livestock. Ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBDs) cause losses to the animal husbandry industry and also present a major hidden danger to public health and safety. However, the tick species and prevalence of
Pengfei Min, Jianchen Song, Shaowei Zhao, Zhen Ma, Yinbiao Meng, Zeyu Tang, Zhenyu Wang, Sicheng Lin, Fanglin Zhao, Meng Liu, Longsheng Wang, Lijun Jia, Lijun Jia   +12 more
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Measuring Strategic, Tactical, Complex and Simple Changes to Farm Systems

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture is under increasing pressure to redesign farm systems. Governments are increasingly seeking to halt or reverse the damaging effects of agriculture on the environment. Adapting to climate change requires reconfiguring farm systems to withstand more variable, and historically more extreme, seasonal conditions and the constant demand ...
Geoff Kaine, Vic Wright
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Evaluation and Development of a Nutrition Model to Predict Intake and Growth of Suckling Calves

Ruminants
The objective of this study was to evaluate and develop equations to predict forage intake and growth of calves throughout the suckling period of beef calves grazing on forage or dairy calves fed harvested forage.
Geovana Camila Baldin, Caleb Hildebrand, Robert L. Larson, Phillip A. Lancaster   +3 more
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Effect of Season, Sex and Breed on the Thyroxine Secretion Rate of Beef Cattle and a Comparison with Dairy Cattle [PDF]

, 1963
G.W. Pipes, T.R. Bauman, J. R. Brooks, J. E. Comfort, C. W. Turner   +4 more
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Descriptive analysis of national bovine viral diarrhoea test data in England (2016–2023)

Veterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) is an endemic disease in the UK. In England, a voluntary control and eradication scheme, BVDFree England, has been running since 2016. Methods We analysed test results from 7005 herds that were submitted to BVDFree England between 2016 and 2023 to investigate changes in the prevalence of BVD in ...
Naomi S. Prosser, Edward M. Hill, Lorna Gow, Massimo Cavallaro, Michael J. Tildesley, Matt J. Keeling, Jasmeet Kaler, Eamonn Ferguson, Martin J. Green   +8 more
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