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Livestock Inventory and Value and Cattle Data, 1975-80 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
Includes number and value of livestock on Illinois farms; Illinois' ranking in U.S. livestock industry; distribution of livestock, 1979; livestock value per head, 1975-80; trends in Illinois livestock production; number and value, production and income ...

core  

LEISA: A Scalable Microservice-based System for Efficient Livestock Data Sharing [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
In the livestock sector, the fragmented data landscape across isolated systems presents a significant challenge, necessitating interoperability and integration. In this article, we introduce the Livestock Event Information Sharing Architecture (LEISA), a novel architecture designed to facilitate the sharing of livestock event information among various ...
arxiv  

Traceability of Agri‐Food Products: The Key to Conscious Trade

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globalization and growing concerns about sustainability have led to improvements in product traceability, quality, and sustainability. Traceability contributes to environmental protection and supports sustainable development by fostering transparency in agricultural practices and encouraging the responsible use of resources.
Scarlett Queen Almeida Bispo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pervasive Sensing for Livestock Health and Activity Monitoring: Current Methods and Techniques [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Pervasive sensing is transforming health and activity monitoring by enabling continuous and automated data collection through advanced sensing modalities. While extensive research has been conducted on human subjects, its application in livestock remains underexplored.
arxiv  

U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Concepts and Actors in Organic Livestock Husbandry in Bolivia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Traditional smallholder livestock production is expected to correspond widely with principles of organic livestock farming. Though, the real magnitude of livestock under organic and alike management is unknown.
Delgado, F.   +3 more
core  

MultiCore+TPU Accelerated Multi-Modal TinyML for Livestock Behaviour Recognition [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
The advancement of technology has revolutionised the agricultural industry, transitioning it from labour-intensive farming practices to automated, AI-powered management systems. In recent years, more intelligent livestock monitoring solutions have been proposed to enhance farming efficiency and productivity.
arxiv  

Who Are the Farmers Participating in a Carbon Sequestration Program? Results of a Discrete Choice Experiment in Germany

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural soils offer great potential for carbon sequestration through humus formation. One way to motivate farmers to build up humus is through humus programs. These are still at an early stage of development, poorly explored, and the number of participating farmers is low. Our aim is to explain the heterogeneity of farmers' willingness to
Julia B. Block   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grass functional traits reflect the long history of fire and grazers in the savannas of Texas

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Understanding relationships among grass traits, fire, and herbivores may help improve conservation strategies for savannas that are threatened by novel disturbance regimes. Emerging theory, developed in Africa, emphasizes that functional traits of savanna grasses reflect the distinct ways that fire and grazers consume biomass ...
Ashish N. Nerlekar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Treatment strategies and antibiotic usage practices in mastitis management in Kenyan smallholder dairy farms

open access: yesBMC Veterinary Research
Background Mastitis is a common driver of antibiotic use in dairy farms and is exacerbated in low-income settings by the lack of diagnostics and treatment strategies.
Dishon M Muloi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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