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Precision Livestock Farming for Dairy Sheep: A Literature Review of IoT and Decision-Support Systems for Enhanced Management and Welfare

open access: yesAgriEngineering
The dairy sheep, vital to the Mediterranean economy, struggles to balance productivity, sustainability, and animal welfare, especially in extensive, small-scale systems.
Maria Consuelo Mura   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Participatory breeding system for laying hens [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Livestock breeds (and breeding systems) developed for intensive production systems often do not perform as expected in organic and extensive systems.
Leenstra, Ferry
core  

Emission Reporting for Agriculture: Frameworks and Metrics Matter

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Frameworks and metrics that reliably describe agricultural emission sources and carbon sinks are critical to the formulation of cost‐effective mitigation investment. This study identifies and compares three distinct emission reporting frameworks across metrics of total emissions and emissions intensity.
Johnny Machon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Performance Value-Added Dairy Operations in New York, Vermont and Wisconsin [PDF]

open access: yes
Federal, state and local governments have funded various efforts to support value added agriculture, often implicitly assuming that the enterprises would be profitable and that the transition from commodity producer to producer-processor-marketer ...
Nicholson, Charles F.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Effects of lactation stage, parity, beta-lactoglobulin genotype and milk SCC on whey protein composition in Sarda dairy ewes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In 90 Sarda dairy ewes the effects of lactation stage, parity, beta-lactoglobulin genotypes, and somatic cell count (SCC) on the milk content of total protein (TP), casein (CN), whey protein (WP) and its fractions alpha-lactalbumin (ALA), beta ...
Battacone, Gianni   +4 more
core  

Economic and Land Use Impacts of Synthetic Dairy Production on a Dairy‐Intensive Economy: New Technology Moo‐ving In

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Synthetic dairy products are promoted as an environmentally sustainable alternative to conventional dairy goods. This paper examines the potential economic, employment and land use impacts of large‐scale synthetic dairy production on Aotearoa New Zealand—the world's leading dairy exporter. Using a global, economy‐wide model, we simulate a case
Niven Winchester, Dominic White
wiley   +1 more source

In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

First Molecular Identification of Entamoeba spp. in Sheep, Beef Cattle, and Dairy Cattle in Shanxi Province, North China

open access: yesVeterinary Sciences
Entamoeba spp. are common zoonotic intestinal protozoa, which can lead to serious intestinal diseases in both humans and animals through fecal–oral transmission, leading to significant economic losses and public health challenges.
Ze-Xuan Wu   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Somatic Cell Count on Milk Production, Composition, Colour, Coagulation Properties and Cheese-Making Ability Traits in Manchega Dairy Sheep

open access: yesFoods
Somatic cell count (SCC) in milk is widely used as an indicator of intramammary infections in dairy sheep and is routinely monitored by the dairy industry as a marker of milk quality.
Imen Heddi   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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