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The complete genome sequence of the rumen bacterium Butyrivibrio hungatei MB2003

Standards in Genomic Sciences, 2017
Butyrivibrio hungatei MB2003 was isolated from the plant-adherent fraction of rumen contents from a pasture-grazed New Zealand dairy cow, and was selected for genome sequencing in order to examine its ability to degrade plant polysaccharides.
Nikola Palevich, William J. Kelly, Sinead C. Leahy, Eric Altermann, Jasna Rakonjac, Graeme T. Attwood   +5 more
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Protection Motivation Theory and Farmers' Participation in Futures Markets: Evidence From Germany

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why German farmers show limited adoption of commodity futures contracts despite substantial price volatility, applying Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to understand the cognitive processes driving participation decisions in futures markets. Survey data from 303 German farmers collected in 2024 were analyzed using Partial
Hendrik Wever, Marius Michels, Oliver Musshoff   +2 more
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Sheep numbers required for dry matter digestibility evaluations when fed fresh perennial ryegrass or forage rape

Animal Nutrition, 2017
Research trials with fresh forages often require accurate and precise measurement of digestibility and variation in digestion between individuals, and the duration of measurement periods needs to be established to ensure reliable data are obtained.
Xuezhao Sun, Linda Krijgsman, Garry C. Waghorn, Holly Kjestrup, John Koolaard, David Pacheco   +5 more
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Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, Silke Hüttel   +6 more
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Threshold levels of artificial infection with Haemonchus contortus impacting lamb physiology and production

Scientific Reports
This study examined the effects of levels of artificial Haemonchus contortus infection on lamb behaviour and physiology. Forty 6-month-old Romney-cross wethers were assigned to one of four treatments (n = 10/treatment): 8000 L3 larvae (High; H), 4000 L3 ...
Melissa N. Hempstead, Paul M. Candy, Rina Hannaford, Mallory A. Ross, Ian A. Sutherland, Christian W. Sauermann   +5 more
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Crystal Structure of the Multidomain Pectin Methylesterase PmeC5 from Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens D1^T

Biomolecules
Pectin is a dynamic and complex polysaccharide that forms a substantial proportion of the primary plant cell wall and middle lamella of forage ingested by grazing ruminants.
Vincenzo Carbone, Kerri Reilly, Carrie Sang, Linley R. Schofield, William J. Kelly, Ron S. Ronimus, Graeme T. Attwood, Nikola Palevich   +7 more
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Crop insurance and irrigation behavior: The conditional role of pumping costs

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Excessive water use for irrigation can accelerate the depletion of water resources, undermining agriculture's resilience to weather‐related shocks. Understanding how farmers make water use decisions is essential for developing effective water management policies.
Sungmin Cheu, Molly Sears
wiley   +1 more source

The Need For Grassland Reservations and Grassland Research

The Canadian field-naturalist, 1940
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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The causal effect of agricultural landscape simplification on Germany's grasslands during a compound drought and heatwave in 2018

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Preserving ecosystem services, along with economic and environmental benefits, will require future landscape policies to identify and incorporate relevant landscape features. In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of agricultural landscape simplification on drought‐related grassland damages.
Marco Ferro, Jan Börner, Silke Hüttel, Katja Kowalski, Patrick Hostert, Krisztina Kis‐Katos   +5 more
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Temporal fermentation and microbial community dynamics in rumens of sheep grazing a ryegrass-based pasture offered either in the morning or in the afternoon

Animal, 2019
Eight ruminally-fistulated wethers were used to examine the temporal effects of afternoon (PM; 1600h) v. morning (AM; 0800 h) allocation of fresh spring herbage from a perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)-based pasture on fermentation and microbial ...
R.E. Vibart, S. Ganesh, M.R. Kirk, S. Kittelmann, S.C. Leahy, P.H. Janssen, D. Pacheco   +6 more
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