Salinity has deleterious effects on both crops and livestock. An optimum farm plan is essential to adapt this hazard. The present study made an effort develop for the livestock-based farming systems in saline normal areas of West Bengal. In case areas, farmers put highest priority maximizing gross margin, followed by achieving self-financial support minimizing income risk farm. Optimal solution...

The usefulness of several information sources is examined for U.S. farms with sales in excess of $100,000. The results indicate that crop/livestock-specific magazines and general farm magazines are the most useful information sources. Analyses indicate that the types and number of different commodities that the farm produced, as well as Internet use, are the most consistent predictors of attitu...

With increasing concern about environmental burdens originating from livestock production, the importance of farming system evaluation has never been greater. In order to form a basis for trade-off analysis of pasture-based cattle production systems, liveweight data from 90 Charolais × Hereford-Friesian calves were collected at a high temporal resolution at the North Wyke Farm Platform (NWFP) i...

This article reviews the literature on the circadian and estrous rhythms of body temperature in farm animals. Although most research in this area has lacked the methodological sophistication of research conducted on laboratory animals, the experimental results are consistent with the general principles of thermal chronobiology derived from laboratory studies and, at the same time, provide speci...

Eco-efficiency is concerned with the efficient and sustainable use of resources in farm production and land management. It can be increased either by altering the management of individual crop and livestock enterprises or by altering the land-use system. This paper concentrates on the effects of crop sequence and rotation on soil fertility and nutrient use efficiency. The potential importance o...

Several methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lineages that carry a novel mecA homologue (mecC) have recently been described in livestock and humans. In Denmark, two independent human cases of mecC-MRSA infection have been linked to a livestock reservoir. We investigated the molecular epidemiology of the associated MRSA isolates using whole genome sequencing (WGS). Single nucleotid...

Data on production performance of 200 animals maintained at University Livestock Farm, Kerala Agricultural University, Mannuthy and Cattle Breeding Farm, Thumburmuzhi were used for the study. Among the eight economically important traits [305 day milk yield, fat percentage, protein percentage, SNF(Solids not fat), total solids, peak yield, days to attain peak yield and AFC(Age at first calving)...

Cereal ingredients for animal feedstuffs may become contaminated by Salmonella on their farms of origin. This is often concentrated in multiple foci, owing to contamination by rodents and other wildlife which may be missed by routine sampling, and may involve serovars of particular public health significance, such as Salmonella Typhimurium (STM). The study examined such contamination in domesti...

INRA, AgroParisTech, UMR1313, Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France; Wageningen UR Livestock Research, POB 65, 8200 AB, Lelystad, The Netherlands; Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH, 27454 Cuxhaven, Germany; The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, Scotland; Institute of Farm Animal Genetic...

E. Kelly1,2†, L. Shalloo1†, U. Geary1, A. Kinsella3 and M. Wallace2 1Teagasc, Livestock Systems Research Department, Animal and Grassland Research & Innovation Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland 2School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland 3Agricultural Economics and Farm Surveys Department, Rural Economy and Development Programme, Te...