Off-site movement of pesticides into groundwater or surface water has been detected. The movement of organophosphate insecticides into surface water, and the movement of winter-dormant herbicide sprays into groundwater are the primary concerns for alfalfa. A number of measures are suggested that may be useful to help mitigate these problems, but must be integrated with specific limitations and ...

Agriculture plays a key role in the management of water use. Especially in Greece, irrigation is an essential element of agricultural production and agricultural water use has a substantial share in total water use. The presented study illustrates the key features of the IRMA_SYSTEM, a regional, user-friendly computer/mobile-based, open and free modular software for estimating site specific cro...

on-farm management practices with the aim of improving water use efficiency (wue) are among the practical ways of overcoming the water scarcity problem. this study aims to investigate ways of implementing agricultural water management in abarkouh region, yazd province, which mainly deals with problems such as water scarcity and salinity of soil and water resources. to this end, the resulting sc...

Research has shown that total bacterial count (TBC), which is the bacterial growth per ml of milk over a fixed period of time, can be decreased by good hygiene and farm management practices. The objective of the current study was to quantify the associations between herd management factors and bulk tank TBC in Irish spring calving, grass-based dairy herds. The relationship between bulk tank TBC...

There is a need for pesticide water monitoring in South Africa and for community awareness with regard to chemical contamination of rural water sources. The results of two descriptive studies in the rural Western Cape are reported. One assessed water usage and the knowledge, attitudes and practices in relation to water of farm residents (229 participants from 60 farms) in the Slanghoek Valley, ...

The North Wyke Farm Platform (NWFP) provides data from the field- to the farm-scale, enabling the research community to address key issues in sustainable agriculture better and to test models that are capable of simulating soil, plant and animal processes involved in the systems. The tested models can then be used to simulate how agro-ecosystems will respond to changes in the environment and ma...

Demand for water from the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) continues to increase, despite a Cap on diversions being in place since 1996. Previous and ongoing efforts to improve water use efficiency within the Basin have focused primarly on engineering solutions, in particular through reducing losses from seepage, leakage and evaporation within the distribution system, including by upgra...

The importance of controlled water supply is indispensable for the sustainability in low land paddy production, which varies enormously from region to region and country to country. What essential is the degree of importance given to the three elements of water management namely (i) resource management within the watershed (ii) conveyance to the crop fields and (iii) management within farm fiel...

BACKGROUND Analysis of data collected from pig farms may be useful to understand factors affecting pig health and productive performance. However, obtaining these data and drawing conclusions from them can be done at different levels and presents several challenges. In the present study, information from 688 batches of growing-finishing (GF) pigs (average initial and final body weight of 19.1 a...

The ongoing global spread of "exotic" farm animals, such as water buffaloes, which carry their native sets of viruses, may bear unknown risks for the animals, into whose ecological niches the former are introduced and vice versa. Here, we report on the occurrence of malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) on Swiss farms, where "exotic" water buffaloes were kept together with "native" animals, i.e. catt...