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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"livestock industry"”.
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Distillers grains and the livestock industry in western Canada
The ethanol industry in Western Canada has seen significant growth in recent times spurred on mainly be environmental considerations. For a region with substantial grain production, increased prices from additional demand by the biofuel industry may inure to the benefit of grain farmers and land …
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A dynamic econometric-simulation model of the U.S. livestock industry
Agricultural policy makers have shown an increased inclination to utilize large-scale computerized models to help evaluate alternative policy proposals. Recent advances in computer technology make it possible for agricultural economists to provide policy makers with detailed multicommodity models …
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Strategic Legitimacy Assessment: The Case of the Illinois livestock industry
… for the legitimacy assessment is the Illinois livestock industry. Results indicate the Illinois livestock industry has severe legitimacy liabilities. Additionally, the industry strategy may be ineffective addressing the legitimacy challenges posed by local communities. A secondary result of the …
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The Mexican Epizootic of Foot-and-Mouth Disease: A Study in the Spread, Eradication and Impact of Infectious Livestock Disease, and Associated Modernization in the Livestock Industry
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T04:57:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606961.pdf: 27013371 bytes, checksum: 2f6b75fb266f55048462cd21cf3ed6f1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Genetic Manipulation and Characterization of Solvent-Producing Clostridia
… CSL is a by-product of the corn wet-milling industry, and has been used primarily as a feed supplement in the livestock industry. This nutrient-rich medium is an ideal base for use in a bacterial fermentation medium. A medium developed from CSL has been found to support good bacterial growth …
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Antibiotic resistant and xenobiotic degrading bacteria that shape the microbiota of the vectors Aedes aegypti & Culicoides sonorensis
… with significant impact on public health and the livestock industry. Primary vector control methods involve the use of insecticides such as synthetic pyrethroids like permethrin; however, the development of insecticide resistance has rendered this measure insufficient to control the spread of …
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Assessment of the Small Indian Mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) in Sustaining Cattle Fever Tick populations in Puerto Rico
… Babesia which causes bovine babesiosis in livestock and wildlife hosts. Current management practices in Puerto Rico are failing to control CFT prevalence resulting in major economic losses for the livestock industry on this island. One factor that has not been directly addressed is the …
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Battle for the dinner table: Can vegan analogues curb America’s reliance on meat?
… demand for meat continues to rise, globally, the livestock industry produces an estimated 14.5% of manmade greenhouse gas emissions –– more than two-thirds of which come from cattle. Meat production requires roughly three-fourths of the world’s agricultural land and heavy crop and water usage, …
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Actividad y estructuras pecuarias en la Comunidad de Albarracín (1284-1516)
… territories' importance. The study analyses the livestock industry through the autonomous rules, the agreements reached between the town and their villages and the pastoral institutions - specially the evolution of the Mesta of Albarracín. It also includes the analyses of different ways of …
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Evaluating the potential for plant-based meat to capture the U.S. meat market
… describes factors influencing the meatless meat industry’s potential to expand, and it estimates the U.S. beef market’s response to competition from plant-based meat products. The first part of the analysis provides an overview of the meatless meat industry and outlines factors that influence the …
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Steam-Flaked Soybeans in Dairy Cattle Diets
… forms of soybeans available and fed within the livestock industry including: raw soybeans, extruded soybeans, roasted soybeans, steam-flaked soybeans and several soybean meal varieties. While most of these soybean products have been extensively researched and evaluated as feedstuffs, there is …
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Interactions and epidemiology of nematode worm control in livestock
The livestock industry relies heavily upon anthelmintics for the treatment of parasitic nematode diseases. This has resulted in widespread resistance to multiple anthelmintic classes across several parasitic genera. In response to this spread in resistance and subsequent decrease in efficacy there …
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Economic analyses of the effects of calving season on beef cow-calf-forage systems
Important implications of the study are: beef cow-calf production is competitive over a wide range of beef prices and it may increase farm returns to feed small amounts of corn silage rather than grow additional pasture even when the weaned steer calf-corn ratio is quite low.
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Helminths of South Dakota Coyotes
… well as being of veterinary significance to the livestock industry. It is doubtful that coyotes play an important role as a sylvatic reservoir for trichinosis in South Dakota The coyote, Canis Latrans, is distributed in many widely varying habitats throughout North America. Because of …
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Growth, Rumen Development, and Metabolism of Holstein Calves Fed Distillers Grains
<p>With the booming ethanol industry in the Midwest, production of distillers grains is increasing day by day. Distillers grains has already been used as a source of protein and energy in the livestock industry. Limited research has been conducted to date to exploit distillers grains in calf …
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Protecting the Integrity of Organic Food in the Face of Genetic Engineering: The Case of Roundup Ready Alfalfa
… the fastest growing sectors of the American food industry. While biotechnology companies claim there is a successful “coexistence” of GE crop technologies and organic crops, many organic producers are already challenged by keeping unwanted GE traits out of their fields. Still, little attention has …
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Protecting the Integrity of Organic Food in the Face of Genetic Engineering: The Case of Roundup Ready Alfalfa
… the fastest growing sectors of the American food industry. While biotechnology companies claim there is a successful “coexistence” of GE crop technologies and organic crops, many organic producers are already challenged by keeping unwanted GE traits out of their fields. Still, little attention has …
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Modeling host responses to tick feeding and tick-borne flavivirus evolution and dispersal
… ticks cause significant economic losses in the livestock industry. Seminal studies have shown that animals with prior exposure to un-infected ticks can develop an immune response that reduces successful feeding and pathogen transmission by infected ticks in subsequent infestations. Despite the …
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Surveillance of Emerging Livestock Viruses
… several emerging viral diseases impacting the livestock industry and to provide insight into appropriate control strategies. Recent, severe outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) in Asia and North America highlighted the need for well-validated diagnostic tests for identification …
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A Comparative Analysis of the Nutrient Composition and Digestibility of California Perennial and Annual Grasses at Four Stages of Growth
… and procure 90% of the income for the range livestock industry (FRAP, 2003). Forages found on California’s coastal, desert, foothill, and mountain ranges are the basis of the state’s beef cattle industry. Understanding their nutritional quality of these forages is important for their …
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