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An Analysis of Spatial Disappearance: The Case of Dairying in a Cash Grain Region
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Selection and Comparison of Optimum Organizations for Farms in the Lincoln Area of Southern Illinois With Emphasis on Dairying
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The fate of neonate calves. A discussion of the bovine infant health implications of dairying in antiquity, using archaeozoological studies of six Orcadian contexts.
A methodology for ageing foetal and neonatal cattle is developed, involving radiographic examination of infant mandibles for early developmental stages in molariform teeth; tooth-wear methodologies are imprecise at this stage before wear commences. Known-age modern bovine foetal and neonate …
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An isotopic investigation into calving seasonality, diet and dairying in British Prehistoric cattle. Reconstructing animal husbandry at a sub-annual resolution using multi-isotope analysis and intra-tooth sampling.
The detection of dairying is essential to understand prehistoric economies, particularly in northwest Europe, where a high degree of lactose tolerance implies that fresh milk has long been a significant dietary component. Domestic cattle (Bos taurus) are biologically able to breed year-round, …
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Etnoarcheologia dei Paesaggi Pastorali nelle Alpi: Strategie Insediative Stagionali d'Alta Quota in Trentino
… of the relationship between current pastoral/dairying sites (malghe) and mountain environment of Val di Fiemme, in order to create an inductive predictive model; and a “field ethnoarchaeology†, the study of the relationship between modern shepherds/dairymen and environment, in order to …
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An Attempt to Develop Resistance in the Udder Against Streptococcus Dysgalactiae and Escherichia Coli
… attention in recent years. As the business of dairying has developed and grown, mastitis has become more significant to the farmer and the processor. The economic loss from reduced production and sale of milk, loss of breeding animals, veterinary and medical fees is paramount. Much of the …
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Church Broughton Parish, Derbyshire: An oral history, 1900-1940
This study is an oral history of a Derbyshire dairying parish during the first forty years of the twentieth century. The aim was to discover the nature and cohesion of society in a parish with no resident lord of the manor, the effects on the parish of changes in agricultural practice and the …
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The Vitamin E Status of Lactating Dairy Cows after Receiving Stored Feeds for 15 Months
<p>The trend in dairying in recent years has been towards more confinement housing and higher producing animals. Such confinement housing often leads to year-around feeding of stored feeds, such as silage, haylage, and hay with no pasture grazing or feeding of freshly cut forages. Since stored …
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Protein from pasture
… The grazing rotation intervals used in seasonal dairying on ryegrass/white clover pastures in New Zealand would be satisfactory for protein extraction. Estimated recoverable protein yields for irrigated and non-irrlgated pasture, and lucerne, were 979, 675 and 660 kg/ha/yr, respectively. For …
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The effect of available resources on the forage-grain feeding ratios and forage production systems on selected Virginia grade A dairy farms
… competitive position. Increasing competition in dairying within the state, as well as potential competition developing in areas outside of the state, makes it essential that dairymen operate efficiently. In particular, they must give careful consideration to various ways of reducing their …
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An analysis of the influences of changes in herd size and certain other management factors on milk production and income over feed cost in eastern dairy herds
… when averaged, they represented yearly trends in dairying. Results for all three breeds were similar in magnitude with increases of 54 to 56 kgs. of milk per year, and 23 to 26 cents per cwt. per year in milk price. Using these differences, the affects of changing herd size were studied, and it …
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Farming and feasting in Iron Age Orkney: a comparison of livestock farming practices and dietary traditions at The Cairns, Mine Howe, Pool, and Howe, based on mortality profiles analyses of cattle, sheep/goat, and pig mandibles.
… research discusses the intensity of dairying in the Iron Age as well as other secondary<br/>products from livestock species such as meat, wool and traction. Along with the use of<br/>domesticated species’ primary and secondary products, this research also indicates the<br/>sheep …
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Social bonds in dairy cattle: the effect of dynamic group systems on welfare and productivity
… are many who see these systems as the future of dairying and discount the welfare concerns being highlighted. This project aimed to address one of the main welfare issues that receives scarce consideration when designing such systems; the social bonds of dairy cattle. A herd of 400 …
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Sustainability of intensified agricultural production in the Boyne catchment.
… in output across a range of farm enterprises – dairying, beef, sheep and pigs. The motivation for this study was to examine the environmental sustainability of the Food Harvest 2020 targets. The study was carried out on the River Boyne catchment area. A wide-ranging environmental systems …
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The potential effectiveness of eco-n nitrification inhibitor in reducing nitrification rates in a range of key New Zealand dairy pasture soils: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Agricultural Science with Honours
… rates in six different soil types from key dairying regions of New Zealand (Northland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, West Coast of the South Island and Southland) when incubated at 10°C. Incubation vessels (10 cm diameter by 15 cm height) were packed with 4 mm sieved soil from the …
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Cross-scale resilience for organisations: A study of three geographic regions
… were conducted with farmers involved in dairying and horticulture settings across 10 countries including India, New Zealand and Malawi among others. In order to identify both barriers to cross-scale resilience and farmers attempts across regions to become more ecologically sustainable, 42 …
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An ethnohistorical comparative study of Scandinavian colonization on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia : the Norwegians at Quatsino and the Danes at Cape Scott/San Josef Valley, 1894-1913
… robust colonization attempt. The Danes had a dairying-Danish focus in both ideology and activity, while the Norwegians were improvising, individualistic ranchers and prospectors. Both colonizations failed, but some effective settlement had taken place, in the form of crown grants of land …
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The Effect of Methods of Storage on The Gross Energy, Chemical Composition and Feeding Value of Alfalfa
… to the farmers of most countries where extensive dairying is practiced. An attempt has been made in this research to investigate the feeding value of alfalfa hay stored outdoors associated with browning, bleaching and molding. It was also desirable to compare this feeding value with normal well …
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Studies on equine milk and comparative studies on equine and bovine milk systems
… from that of the milk of the principal dairying species, i.e., the cow, buffalo, goat and sheep. Because equine milk resembles human milk in many respects and is claimed to have special therapeutic properties, it is becoming increasingly popular in Western Europe, where it is produced on …
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