Integrating Ranch Forage Production, Cattle Performance, and Economics in Ranch Management Systems for Southern Florida

Maintaining the Ranch topology

Topology maintenance, or how to handle the possibly concurrent joining and leaving of nodes, is acentral problem for structured peer-to-peer networks. A good topology maintenance protocol should runefficiently, fully maintain the topology, and should not unduly restrict concurrency. In this paper, wepresent such a protocol for a multi-ring topology called Ranch. The protocol is effi...

Reproduction on the Ranch

Ranch : A Dynamic Network Topology

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Production of shelf-stable ranch dressing using high-pressure processing.

High-pressure processing (HPP) can reduce or eliminate microorganisms of concern in food without deteriorating product quality; however, quality benefits must justify the substantial capital investment for the utilization of this technology. HPP is particularly a beneficial preservation technology for products damaged by thermal treatments or when product quality could be improved by reformulat...

Forage Quality: Impacts on Cattle Performance and Economics

The value of a feedstuff is a complex function of its nutrient composition (net energy, protein, vitamins, minerals, etc.) chemical-physical characteristics of its fiber (fragility of the cell walls), acceptability (palatability), and associative interactions with other dietary ingredients. In the case of forages, their associative effects on utilization of other dietary ingredients is of great...