Integrating diverse forage sources reduces feed gaps on mixed crop-livestock farms

Integrating Diverse Data Sources with Gadfly 2

This paper describes the primative methods underlying the implementation of SQL query evaluation in Gadfly 2, a database management system implemented in Python [Van Rossum]. The major design goals behind the architecture described here are to simplify the implementation and to permit flexible and efficient extensions to the gadfly engine. Using this architecture and its interfaces programmers ...

Forage, Phosphorus and Soil on Dairy Farms

Livestock Super Farms

 Farmers will have to increase production levels to provide food for a growing population, while meeting the current and future welfare and environmental targets and legislation.  There has been a steady decline in the number of farms, farmers and livestock in the UK, with an increase in the average farm size.  Proposed UK super farms are smaller in scale compared to some of the world’s larg...

Forage Crop Production

Organic Poultry Production with Natural Feed Supplements as Antimicrobials Zoonotic bacterial pathogens and mixed crop-livestock farming1

Use of mixed crop-livestock farms (MCLFs) is one of the oldest and most traditional farming methods practiced all over the world, and MCLFs are still one of the major systems of food production, particularly for organic foods. On these typically small farms, livestock are reared primarily on grass and naturally grown crops, while composted animal wastes are used to fertilize the soil for growin...