Achieving climate neutrality in the European Union (EU) by 2050 will require substantial efforts across all economic sectors, including agriculture. At same time, an ambitious unilateral EU agricultural mitigation policy is likely to have adverse effects on sector and may limited efficiency at global scale due emission leakage non-EU regions. To analyse competitiveness of EU's potential non-CO2...

Corn is used to massively produce food for humans and domestic animals with grains of various taxonomic entities or races. For ruminants, the whole plant also as forage. In Argentina, both corn grain whole-plant silage are beef dairy cattle production. This paper aimed develop history perspectives grown silage, focusing on breeding. The importance fodder in its two variants (grain silage) has v...

Beauchemin and Rode (1996) recently reviewed the use of enzymes in ruminant diets, however, enzymes in the form of crude whole fungal cell preparations have been used to enhance ruminant production for many years. This paper aims to investigate the similarities between the emerging feed enzymes and fungal feed additives, and to use this information to speculate on potential modes of action of d...

There is increasing evidence to indicate that nutrition is an important factor involved in the onset and development of several chronic human diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease (CVD), type II diabetes and obesity. Clinical studies implicate excessive consumption of medium-chain saturated fatty acids (SFA) and trans-fatty acids (TFA) as risk factors for CVD, and in the aetiology o...

The gastrointestinal (GI) habitat of ruminant and non-ruminant animals sustains a vast ensemble of microbes that are capable of utilizing lignocellulosic plant biomass. In this study, an indigenous swine (Zovawk) and a domesticated goat (Black Bengal) were investigated to isolate bacteria having plant biomass degrading enzymes. After screening and enzymatic quantification of eighty-one obtained...

The objective of this work was to evaluate hematological, biochemical and ruminant parameters for diagnosis and treatment of the left displaced abomasum (LDA) in dairy cows, in the Plateau Region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Ruminant fluid, blood and urine samples were collected from 20 cows suffering LDA and from 20 healthy cows (control). The cows with LDA showed lower values of daily milk p...

1. A method for gas-liquid chromatographic analysis of the dimethyl esters of a homologous series of diabolic acids is described. 2. Only when combined with low-resolution mass spectrometry could the method be used to show unequivocally the existence of diabolic acids in natural products. 3. Diabolic acids occurred naturally in rumen and faecal lipids of all ruminants examined but could not be ...

Advances in our understanding of lipid metabolism in the ruminant and the effect of specific fatty acids on both ruminant metabolism and human health has increased significantly in recent years. Unique biohydrogenation intermediates formed in the rumen have been shown to be potent inhibitors of milk fat synthesis, and the biology behind this and its potential application and benefit to both ani...

during the course of further work to be reported at a later date. It is certain that there are differences in the effect of diet on different tissues as Long (1953) has found that, although the hexokinase activity of intestinal mucosa is depressed by a lowcarbohydrate diet, that of intestinal muscle is unaffected. In so far as attempts to reproduce the anomalies of carbohydrate metabolism obser...