Dairying, Dispossession, Devastation

Enhancing pasture-based dairying with supplementary feeds

New Zealand dairy farmers are increasingly using supplementary feeds in an attempt to overcome the quantitative and nutritional limitations of pasture. The use of rolled maize grain and pasture silage supplements was evaluated on a farmlet basis for two seasons. Supplementary feeding resulted in 88 and 82 g milksolids (MS)/kg dry matter (DM) at stocking rates of 3.24 and 4.48 Friesian cows/ha r...

A Study in Development by Dispossession

LEAD: From Devastation Comes Hope

From devastation Comes Hope Even as the Gulf Coast grapples with possibly its worst environmental catastrophe ever, a silver lining has emerged from the devastation of the stormy summer of 2005: both soil lead levels and children’s blood lead levels fell dramatically across New Orleans, Louisiana, after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita swept in clean sediment over the city’s lead-contaminated soil.1...

A Melancholy Scene of Devastation

The chapters are simple and easy to follow with plenty of room along the margins to take additional notes. The clinical considerations at the end of each section are also helpful in showing how cell biology plays a role in pathology. For a quick review, this book also provides figures and tables that summarize the information in an integrative way. These figures are helpful in understanding the...

Use of disinfectants in open-air dairying.

Disinfection systems are essential in providing dairy foods which are safe for consumption by all sectors and age groups of the human population. The New Zealand dairy industry ensures quality competition under International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) general systems standards (ISO 9002 and ISO Guide 25) and is subject to food safety assurance legislation (Dairy Industry Regulations...