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Accelerometer activity tracking in horses and the effect of pasture management on time budget.

Equine Veterinary Journal, 2019
BACKGROUND Accelerometry is an accepted means of quantifying human physical activity. Quantitative physical activity tracking could be beneficial for studies into equine health and disease prevention, for example in relation to obesity management ...
I. N. Maisonpierre, M. Sutton, Pat Harris, N. Menzies‐Gow, Renate Weller, T. Pfau   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Weed Management in Pastures and Rangeland--2020

EDIS, 2020
Weeds in pastures and rangeland cost ranchers in excess of $180 million annually in Florida by reducing forage yield, lowering forage quality, and causing animal injury through toxicity or specialized plant organs (thorns and spines).
Brent Sellers, Pratap Devkota
doaj   +5 more sources

Voisin Rational Grazing as a Sustainable Alternative for Livestock Production

Animals, 2021
Current livestock practices do not meet current real-world social and environmental requirements, pushing farmers away from rural areas and only sustaining high productivity through the overuse of fossil fuels, causing numerous environmental side effects.
Luiz C. Pinheiro Machado Filho, Hizumi L. S. Seó, Ruan R. Daros, Daniel Enriquez-Hidalgo, Adenor V. Wendling, Luiz C. Pinheiro Machado   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing a Digital Twin Model for Improved Pasture Management at Sheep Farm to Mitigate the Impact of Climate Change

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
— Small-scale livestock farmers experience significant losses because of decreased productivity caused by decline in pasture production brought on by climate change .
Ntebaleng Junia Lemphane, Ben Kotze, R. B. Kuriakose   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Railway side mapping of alien plant distributions in Mpumalanga, South Africa

Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2017
Background: Alien plant invasions are among the major threats to natural and semi-natural ecosystems in South Africa on approximately 18 million hectares of land.
Ndifelani Mararakanye, Modau N. Magoro, Nomakhazi N. Matshaya, Matome C. Rabothata, Sthembele R. Ncobeni   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment on dairy goat management practice in the Korahey Zone, Somali, Ethiopia

Journal of Applied Animal Research, 2023
The characterization of dairy goat management practices in the Korahay Zone, Somali Regional State, was the aim of this study. The woredas and respondents were selected purposefully.
Wondimagegn Tadesse Alem, Mintesnot Tafese, Halimo Abdikadir   +2 more
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Institutional design, informal practices and international conflict: The case of community-based pasture management in the Kyrgyz-Tajik border region

Pastoralism, 2019
In the Kyrgyz Region of Ferghana Valley, violent conflict flares repeatedly between the local Kyrgyz majority population and the Tajik ethnic minority.
G. Kurmanalieva, W. Crewett
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Trends in extreme rainfall over the past 55 years suggest springtime subhourly rainfall extremes have intensified in Mahantango Creek, Pennsylvania

Scientific Reports
Extreme short-duration rainfall is intensifying with climate warming, and growing evidence suggests that subhourly rainfall extremes are increasing faster than more widely studied durations at hourly and daily timescales.
Anthony R. Buda, David J. Millar, Casey D. Kennedy, Molly K. Welsh, Adrian R.H. Wiegman   +4 more
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A study of patchiness in mid-season dairy pastures : consequences and control : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Applied Science at Massey University [PDF]

, 1997
There is interest among some dairy farmers in increasing herbage intake of cows during spring by increasing pasture cover but without compromising pasture quality into the summer.
Padilla Pérez Peña, Mauricio Javier
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The Use of Mobile Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Real-Time Pasture Management

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2018
Changes in pasture nutrients over the growing season are typically not monitored but doing so may help farmers improve how effectively they utilise forage.
M. Bell, Luca Mereu, James Davis
semanticscholar   +1 more source