European environment: Hopes to reform farming

Recognising European pastoral farming systems

Time to reform European science funding.

L aments about a " brain drain " of Europe's young scientists to the USA abounded at the recent Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum 2004 in Lisbon. By some reports, a third or more of the young scientists who pursue postdoc-toral training in the United States remain in North America, where they find it relatively easy to secure jobs and funding in a scientific market span...

Livestock farming: eating up the environment?

REVOLUTIONS can bring both benefits and risks to the people they touch. The livestock revolution , arising from an increasing worldwide demand for animal products (specifically meat, poultry, and milk), is no different. This growing demand is especially prevalent in developing countries, which historically have consumed far less of animal products on a per capita basis than have developed count...

Microbiological Air Contamination in Farming Environment

The aim of this study was to evaluate microbiological contamination levels of indoor air in some farm settings, including barns and dairy objects. The level of microorganism emissions from farm buildings into atmospheric air was also estimated. In the research a MAS-100 air sampler (MERCK) was used. It was revealed that the number of microorganisms in barns ranged between 1.7·10 8.8·10 for meso...

No-till Farming and the Environment

or no-till. Those who oppose this notion argue that no-till is equated with an abusively high use of herbicides and even genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are synonymous with unsustainable agriculture, with no-till taking all the blame. Unfortunately, both sides are right, and therefore, to get closer to the answer of the initial question, we have to take a deeper look into no-tillage syste...