Between 2007 and 2009, the largest human Q fever epidemic ever described occurred in the Netherlands. The source was traced back to dairy goat farms, where abortion storms had been observed since 2005. Since one putative cause of these abortion storms is the intensive husbandry systems in which the goats are kept, the objective of this study was to assess whether these could be explained by her...

The study was performed in Khartoum state the capital of the Sudan where dairy farm producers were the target of the study, the study aimed at the economical assessment of the production profile of small dairy farms .Objectives of the study included: assessing cost-effectiveness and sustainability for domestic milk production in relation with the socioeconomic characteristics of smallholders; a...

Als Basis für ein effizientes Informationsmanagement im Umfeld des Precision Dairy Farming (PDF) bietet sich der Einsatz einer serviceorientierten Architektur (SOA) an. Der konsequente Einsatz einer serviceorientierten Architektur bringt jedoch nicht nur Vorteile mit sich, sondern verursacht auch einen erheblichen organisatorischen Aufwand. In diesem Artikel zeigen wir die Vorteile für den Eins...

and cost-benefit calculations to improve management practices regarding health status in organic dairy farming Exploration of policy options recovery progress and documentation of the success of therapy. While the therapeutic success is the result of the overall effort invested in improved living conditions and treatment effort, the level of envisaged cure rate determines the means and the degr...

This paper addresses the use of ontologies for combining different sensor data sources to enable big data analysis in the dairy farming domain. We have made existing data sources accessible via linked data RDF mechanisms using OWL ontologies on Virtuoso and D2RQ triple stores. In addition, we have created a common ontology for the domain and mapped it to the existing ontologies of the different...

BACKGROUND Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) causes chronic, wasting, and progressive enteritis in cattle, bringing significant economic losses in livestock industries. MAP has spread worldwide mainly due to movement of animals. The objective of this study was to determine the MAP seroprevalence in cattle in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Northwest China, and evaluate...

As a contribution to the debate on the comparison of nutritional quality between conventional versus organic products, the present study would like to provide new results on this issue specifically on dairy products by integrating the last 3 years' studies using a meta-analysis approach with Hedges' d effect size method. The current meta-analysis shows that organic dairy products contain signif...

With the rapid development of China's dairy industry and continuous increase in number cows, mechanized farming equipment has been widely used. Therefore, China entered a new stage development. From current industry, made outstanding contributions to improving output single cow, ensuring production safety milk products, level feeding management technology. implementation is key R & D standa...

Nowadays, different types of farm management information systems (FMIS) are being used in practice several sectors farming, such as dairy, arable, fruits, vegetables, and meat farming. The goal this research is to identify, evaluate, synthesize existing FMISs the Dutch dairy sector present state–of–the–art. We performed a multivocal literature review (MLR) find sources both scientific grey lite...