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Adoption of adaptation protocols and feed additives to improve performance of feedlot cattle

Journal of Applied Animal Research, 2023
The evolution of ruminants was largely influenced by the symbiotic relationship between ruminal microbiota and the host. Within the rumen, these microorganisms degrade feedstuffs to produce organic acids and synthesize microbial protein, as energy and ...
Antonio M. Silvestre, Johnny M. Souza, Danilo D. Millen   +2 more
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How Program‐ and Community‐Led Design Settings Affect Resilience Approaches to Sustainable Development Projects

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable Development interventions must deal with rapid and novel changes affecting complex social‐ecological systems, calling for design based on a resilience approach. However, limited analytical attention has been paid to the design settings in which such approaches are deployed.
Yiheyis Maru, Deborah O'Connell, Nicola Grigg, Annette Cowie, Million Belay, Alice Ruhweza, Mark Stafford Smith   +6 more
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Systemic Governance From Below: Story Telling to Empower Access to the Commons Through Mapping and Modelling: A Mixed Methods Approach

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Access to forests, farming land and the Citarum river is limited in Tarumajaya; furthermore, many do not own their own housing and are dependent on the public and private landowners in the area. The region of Tarumajaya faces significant challenges in access to crucial resources such as forests, farming land and the Citarum river, leading to a
Rudolf Wirawan, Janet Judy McIntyre‐Mills, R. Riswanda R. Riswanda, Ida Widianingsih, Indra Gunawan   +4 more
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Fatty acid profile of feral cattle meat

Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2017
Marismeña is a feral Spanish cattle breed reared in the Doñana National Park, whose meat quality is traditionally appreciated in the area of influence. We assessed male (n = 32) and female (n = 22) Marismeña calves raised in their natural habitat (n = 30)
Sergio Nogales, Maria Cristina Bressan, Juan Vicente Delgado, Luis Telo da Gama, Cecilio Barba, María Esperanza Camacho   +5 more
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Evaluation of the Nasopharyngeal Microbiota in Beef Cattle Transported to a Feedlot, With a Focus on Lactic Acid-Producing Bacteria

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
The nasopharyngeal (NP) microbiota is important in defining respiratory health in feedlot cattle, with certain NP commensals potentially protecting against bovine respiratory disease (BRD) pathogens.
Samat Amat, Samat Amat, Devin B. Holman, Edouard Timsit, Edouard Timsit, Timothy Schwinghamer, Trevor W. Alexander   +6 more
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

Gender &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
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Spatial price competition and buyer power in the U.S. beef packing industry

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop a spatially‐explicit model of the U.S. beef packing industry to study key questions related to competition in an oligopsony setting. Cattle supplies are modeled at the county level, and packing plants' location, capacity, and ownership are taken as given. Packers procure negotiated cattle by competing in prices in each local (county)
GianCarlo Moschini, T. Jake Smith
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