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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"on-farm data"”.
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USE OF ON-FARM DATA AND MILK LEUCOCYTE COMPONENTS FOR MONITORING THE HEALTH OF DAIRY COWS
The aim of this PhD project was monitoring cow health and welfare, using on-farm data and leucocytes components in milk. For this reason, the investigation focused on the two main diseases of dairy cows: mastitis and lameness. Critical aspects are linked with these diseases and some of them were …
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The economic impact of electricity price increases on the potato industry in South Africa
At the start of 2010, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) announced that electricity tariffs would increase at an average rate of 25 percent per year over a three year period (Njobeni, 2010). This raised fears within the economy and specifically within the agricultural sector that …
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Comparison of Variety Performance Trials and Farm Level Yield Gains of Wheat Varieties Adopted in Saskatchewan
Wheat producers in Saskatchewan rely on information from variety performance trials to make informed decisions about new variety adoption, considering factors such as yield potential, weed, pest, and disease resistance, and climatic adaptability. These variety performance trials, however, are …
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Identifying, understanding and harnessing the beneficial impact of nutritional interactions to optimise the performance and carcass quality of low birth weight pigs
<p class="MsoNormal">This researchstudy was undertaken to determine the key characteristics of low birth weightpigs in a commercial setting as well as to investigate a number of interventionstrategies within a research setting to uplift the lifetime growth and carcassperformance of low birth weight …