The use of traditional feedstocks for biofuel production has brought about large changes to food and agricultural systems. As livestock producers adapt to rising feed costs, the prospect of incorporating dried distiller’s grain with solubles (DDGS) at higher than traditional levels becomes an important consideration. Given prices for feedstuffs and supplies of DDGS that are outside the historic...

Patrik Waldmann, Gábor Mészáros*, Birgit Gredler, Christian Fuerst and Johann Sölkner 1 Division of Livestock Sciences, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria 2 Division of Statistics, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden 3 Qualitas AG, Zug, Switzerland 4 ZuchtData EDV-...

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli is a foodborne and waterborne pathogen and is responsible for outbreaks of human gastroenteritis. This report documents the draft genome sequences of seven O113:H21 strains recovered from livestock, wildlife, and soil samples recovered from a major agricultural region for leafy greens in California, USA.

1University of London, London, UK; 2Cox Associates, Denver, CO; 3Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, and Livestock Information Services, Callaway, NE; 5JMI Laboratories, North Liberty, IA; 6Hartford Hospital, University of Connecticut, 80 Seymour St., Hartford, CT 06102-5037; 7Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; 8Sutton Veterinary Clinic, Sutton, NE, USA; 4Royal Veterinary and Agricultural ...

BRIAN M. NAIMAN, DAVID ALT, CAROLE A. BOLIN, RICHARD ZUERNER, AND CYNTHIA L. BALDWIN* Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003; Bacterial Diseases of Livestock Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa 50010; and Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, Michigan Sta...

Agricultural Census data is summarised over spatially course reporting units for reasons of farm confidentiality. This is problematic for research at a local level. This paper describes an approach combining dasymetric and volume preserving techniques to create a national land use dataset at 1km resolution. The results for an English county are compared with contemporaneous aggregated habitat d...

Fueled by population growth, rising income and rapid urbanization, global demand for meat is expected to nearly double over the next two decades, from its current level of about 175 million tons to about 320 million tons per year by the year 2020. Growth will be especially strong in the developing world, where at the same time livestock will remain an important supplier of nonfood services, suc...

Linkageofmicrobial ecology to phenotype: correlationof rumen microbial ecology to cattle’s feed e⁄ciency Le Luo Guan, Joshua D. Nkrumah, John A. Basarab & Stephen S. Moore Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada Igenity Livestock Production Business Unit, Merial Ltd, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Devel...

This study applies the environmental Kuznets curve to test the relationship between the regional economic growth and the different types of agricultural nonpoint source pollution loads in the Ningxia Yellow River irrigation area by using the Johnes export coefficient method. Results show that the pollution load generated by crop cultivation and livestock-breeding industries in the Ningxia Yello...

In Rwanda, access to water is seen as a significant constraint to development in both urban and rural areas. The government and foreign donors give priority to improving access to water for agricultural use. In this paper we study whether and, if so, to what extent the revenue generated by livestock farming in the Nyagatare District is affected by the distance that cattle need to go in order to...