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Can outsourcing pest and disease control help reduce pesticide expenditure? Evidence from rice farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure.
Pengcheng Wang, Wanglin Ma, Mengling Diao   +2 more
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Pork Production in Ohio [PDF]

, 1936
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Wuichet, John W.
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Neonatal Mortality, Vesicular Lesions and Lameness Associated with Senecavirus A in a U.S. Sow Farm

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2016
Summary A 300‐sow farrow‐to‐finish swine operation in the United States experienced a sudden and severe increase in mortality in neonatal piglets with high morbidity followed by vesicular lesions on the snout and feet of adult females and males. Affected
P. Canning, A. Canon, J. Bates, K. Gerardy, Daniel Linhares, P. Piñeyro, K. Schwartz, K. Yoon, C. Rademacher, D. Holtkamp, L. Karriker   +10 more
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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
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Knowledge synthesis: Animal health and welfare in organic pig production - Final Report COREPIG [PDF]

, 2011
This report reviews the available information on the welfare of pigs when maintained according to organic standards in Europe. It begins by overviewing the populations of organic pigs in different countries at the time of writing (2007), the organic ...
Bochicchio, David, Bonde, Marianne, Edwards, Sandra, Früh, Barbara, Hegelund, Lene, Heinonen, Mari, Leeb, Christine, Lindgren, Kristina, Lubac, Stanislas, Maupertuis, F., Mejer, Helena, Prunier, Armelle, Roepstorff, Allan, Rousing, Tine, Sundrum, Albert, Sundrum, Albert, Werne, Steffen, Wiberg, Sophia   +17 more
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Modelling the economic efficiency of using different strategies to control Porcine Reproductive & Respiratory Syndrome at herd level [PDF]

, 2018
PRRS is among the diseases with the highest economic impact in pig production worldwide. Different strategies have been developed and applied to combat PRRS at farm level.
Alarcon, Alexopoulos, Amirpour Haredasht, Arruda, C. Nathues, Cano, Corzo, Dee, Dee, Desrosiers, Dorussen, Evans, Fahrion, Fraile, Go, H. Nathues, Holck, Holtkamp, Holtkamp, Holtkamp, Holtkamp, J. Rushton, Jeong, K. Fiebig, Kritas, Lee, Linhares, Linhares, M. Jimenez, McCaw, McCaw, Nathues, Neumann, Nieuwenhuis, Olanratmanee, Olanratmanee, P. Alarcon, Pejsak, R. Jolie, Renukaradhya, Rocadembosch, Rovira, Scortti, Thakur, Thakur, V. Geurts, Young, Zimmerman, Štukelj   +48 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
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Optimizing dietary lipid use to improve essential fatty acid status and reproductive performance of the modern lactating sow: a review

Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, 2016
Dietary lipid supplementation benefits the prolific and high-producing modern lactating sow. A comprehensive review of recent studies showed that lipid supplementation increases average daily energy intake, which is partitioned for lactation as indicated
D. Rosero, R. Boyd, J. Odle, E. van Heugten   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The mating behavior and reproduction performance in a multi-sire mating system for pigs [PDF]

, 2008
An important aim of organic animal production is to allow natural animal behaviour. Regarding reproduction techniques, artificial insemination is permitted but natural mating is preferred.
Hermansen, J.E., Kongsted, A.G.
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Intraspecific variation in stomatal architecture, gas exchange, and drought response of a dominant prairie grass sourced from broad climatic gradients

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Understanding how plant populations adapt to water limitation through stomatal traits is key to predicting drought responses. The dominant C4 grass Andropogon gerardi, distributed across sharp climate gradients in North America, offers an excellent focal species to study stomatal architecture (size and density).
Jack Sytsma, Allison Ricker, Helen Winters, Brian Maricle, Ryann Patterson, Kian Fogarty, Loretta Johnson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source