The aim of this study is to look into the current information surrounding decommissioning and life extension strategies in offshore wind sector critically assess them make informed decisions upon completion initial design farms. This was done through a two-pronged approach by looking technical aspects comprehensive discussions with industrial specialists field also similar but more mature indus...

for the current research the records of 62 farms in isfahan province were available. to estimate genetic and phonotypic trends of reproductive traits such as age at first calving, calving interval, days open and number of insemination to conception rate the records of 63,866 cows including 167793 reproductive records were employed. farms were covered by vahdat industrial agriculturists and dair...

population growth and increasing industrial and agricultural activities that cause ghg emissions and risk from environmental management is a serious challenge. in this research, the ghg emissions from peanut production as a potential feedstock for biodiesel fuel was investigated. data were collected through interviews with 75 peanut farmers. the cultivated areas were divided into three categori...

Milk quality parameters were recorded for United States dairy farms utilizing automatic milking (AM) from August 2000 to June 2003. Additional farms were admitted to the study as they began operation, so that the full data set includes 12 AM farms. Somatic cell count (SCC) and total bacterial count (TBC) data was analyzed and compared to corresponding data from a cohort of conventional farms in...

Infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) is an important infectious disease in Atlantic salmon farming causing recurrent epidemic outbreaks worldwide. The focus of this paper is on tracing the spread of ISA among Norwegian salmon farms. To trace transmission pathways for the ISA virus (ISAV), we use phylogenetic relationships between virus isolates in combination with space-time data on disease occurren...

Efficiency analysis is used for assessing links between technical efficiency (TE) of livestock farms and animal diseases. However, previous studies often do not make the link with the allocation of inputs and mainly present average effects that ignore the often huge differences among farms. In this paper, we studied the relationship between exposure to gastrointestinal (GI) nematode infections,...

The prevalence, distribution, and antimicrobial susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Belgian pig farms has been investigated. To that end, nasal samples were collected from 1,500 pigs on 50 farms randomly selected over Belgium. Both closed (breeding or farrow-to-finish) and open (fattening) farms were included. Within closed farms different age groups were inv...

The aim of this research is to characterise the wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) commercial game farms in Spain using variables related to structure, management and marketing. To this end, a structured survey was administered in 2009 to 21 privately-owned farms. This subsector was an average age of 13. The average size of the breeding stock of the farms was 431 does and 64 bucks. Eighty-five...

The purpose of this research was socioeconomicanalysis of farms using primary data in two villages of Mymensingh Sadar. A total of 60 farms including 20 small, 20 medium and 20 large were randomly selected for the study. Socioeconomic analysis showed that indebtedness was higher in large farms than those of small and medium ones. Large farms also engaged more in farm activities than others. All...

background: milk is regarded as a unique source of food for all ages. when milk is exposed to various contaminants, including lead and cadmium, it is considered a risk to humans. the presence of some metal pollutants, especially cd and pb, facilitates their entry into the food chain and thus increases the possibility of their toxic effects on humans and animals. therefore, we decided to check l...