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On-site and off-Site long-term economic impacts of soil fertility management practices: The case of maize-based cropping systems in Kenya [PDF]
"This article analyzes the on-site and off-site economic impacts of various sustainable land management (SLM) practices in Kenya. Long-term trial data are used to establish the relationship between SLM practices and maize yield.
Gachimbi, Louis N. +5 more
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New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 105-222, April 2024.ABSTRACT The Number 2 Dairy (No. 2 Dairy) unit at Ruakura, Hamilton, New Zealand was established as a dairy research farm in 1943 and became recognised globally as one of the leading institutes for farm systems science. The research undertaken was fundamental to the ‘systemisation’ of component research into replicable, efficient, competitive, and ...
Kevin A. Macdonald, John R. Roche
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Out of Site out of Mind: Quantifying the Long-term Off-site economic Impacts of Land Degradation in Kenya [PDF]
This study investigated the private and social returns to Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices with an objective of finding practices that reduce the on-farm and off-farm negative effects of land degradation.
Gachimbi, Louis +5 more
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In vitro rumen biohydrogenation kinetics of mixed linoleic and alfa-linolenic acids
Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Pecuarias, 2018 Background: Dietary linoleic (LA) and alpha-linolenic (LN) acids are extensively isomerized and hydrogenated by rumen microbes, and this activity can further contribute to the fatty acid profile of ruminantderived food products.
Julián Andrés Castillo Vargas +3 more
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Oilseed Rape straw for Cultivation of Oyster Mushroom [PDF]
, 2008 Oyster mushroom [_Pleurotus ostreatus_ var. _sajor caju_ (Fr.) Singer] cultivation can play an important role in managing organic waste. It can be cultivated on a wide rang of substrates containing lignin and cellulose.
Ahmad Nowroozi +2 more
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Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2004 Successive pairs of approximately 4-month-old Friesland bull calves, raised under worm-free conditions, were exposed to helminth infection for 14 days on dry-land Kikuyu grass pastures at 28-day to monthly intervals, on a coastal farm in a non ...
I.G. Horak, Ursula Evans, R.E. Purnell
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Choosing the best forage species for a dairy farm: The Whole-farm approach [PDF]
Although a handful of forage species such as perennial ryegrass are predominant, there are a wide range of forage species that can be grown in sub tropical and temperate regions in Australia as dairy pastures. These species have differing seasonal yields,
Bill Fulkerson, James Neal, Mark Neal
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, 1933 This bulletin discusses the more important grasses growing on local ranges, their growth in other parts of the world, nature of growth, palatability, persistence, climatic requirements, and present importance and possibilities for ...
Davis, W.C. +3 more
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Ciência Rural, 2012 This paper has two objectives, the first is to determine the chemical composition, gas production parameters and the gas release kinetics, at different stages of maturity, of three grasses and a legume commonly found in long established pastures in ...
Adolfo Armando Rayas Amor +3 more
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