Poor handling and storage practices reduce the manure quality as a fertilizer. A survey was done in Seke communal area, Zimbabwe to establish common management practices, determine factors that influence use of effects on vegetable yield. structured questionnaire administered 222 respondents from April August 2019. Both descriptive inferential statistics were using SPSS. Chi-square tests Spearm...

Dewes, 1992; Rao Bhamidimarri and Pandey, 1996; Eghball et al., 1997; Tiquia et al., 2002). Swine (Sus scrofa L.) production in deep-bedded hoop structures Field trials comparing composted with fresh dairy is a relatively new swine finishing system in which manure can be applied to fields fresh or after composting. We conducted field-plot manures have shown similar corn yield (Brinton, 1985; tr...

The over-application of phosphorus, as manure by animal feeding operations, is a threat to surface water quality. Concentration of animal feeding operations and over application of manures to cropland has lead to a build-up of phosphorus on many farms (Greaves et al., 1999). Relative to crop needs, manure slurries contain higher levels of phosphorus than nitrogen. When manure is applied to meet...

Livestock farming systems encompass (i) grazing, (ii) mixed, and (iii) land-less systems. These systems convert crop protein into animal protein with an efficiency ranging from 5% to 45%, depending on animal type, system and management. The nitrogen (N) in the remaining fraction (55– 95%) is in urine and dung, and is conducive to N losses. This paper reviews N input–output budgets and N losses ...

The use of models in the life sciences has greatly expanded in scope and advanced in technique in recent decades. However, the range, type and complexity of models used in farm animal welfare is comparatively poor, despite the great scope for use of modeling in this field of research. In this paper, we review the different modeling approaches used in farm animal welfare science to date, discuss...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from livestock grazing systems are contributing to global warming. To examine the influence of yak grazing systems on GHG fluxes and relationships between GHG fluxes and environmental factors, we measured carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes over three key seasons in 2012 and 2013 from a range of potential sources, including: alpine m...

the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of esbl-producing e. coli in agricultural fields of gorgan district, golestan province. soil samples were collected from 20 agricultural fields, half of them treated with chemical fertilizers and the rest with bovine manure. two samples, from surface and a depth of 15cm, were taken. after enrichment and culture onto macconkey agar, pink colored...

Fresh produce is a generalized term for a group of farm-produced crops, including fruits and vegetables. Organic agriculture has been on the rise and attracting the attention of the food production sector, since it uses eco-agricultural principles that are ostensibly environmentally-friendly and provides products potentially free from the residues of agrochemicals. Organic farming practices suc...

With increasing concern for the pollution potential of farm wastes, there is a corresponding need for rapid and robust methods of analysis for animal manures. In order to study the rapid testing methods based on the relationship between nutrient concentrations and physicochemical properties, diverse samples (n=105) were used in this study. The results indicated strong linear relations between s...