This project is part of an overall research, development and demonstration effort to identify environmentally superior technologies for the treatment and management of swine waste. The project is being conducted for Smithfield Foods, Inc., Premium Standards Farms Inc. and the Attorney General of the State of North Carolina through agreements between these entities known as the “Smithfield Agree...

The use of order statistics to arrive at a scheduling regime is shown to be applicable to data farms running on second generation parallel processors Uniform and decreasing task size scheduling regimes are examined Experimental timings and a further simula tion for large scale e ects were used to exercise the scheduling regimes The paper also considers a number of other scheduling schemes for d...

The demand for increased production on Danish rainbow trout farms as well as reduced environmental impact has lead to the redesign of some of the traditional flow-through farms to model farms based on recirculation technology. Traditional farms have consisted of earth ponds and used stream water, whereas model farms are based on concrete fish tanks, biofilters and a high degree of water recircu...

African swine fever (ASF) is an important disease of pigs and outbreaks of ASF have occurred in Europe on multiple occasions. To explore the period for which the European soft tick species Ornithodoros erraticus (Acari: Argasidae) is able to act as a reservoir of African swine fever virus (ASFV) after infected hosts are removed, we collected specimens from farms in the provinces of Alentejo and...

Offshore fish farming is predicted to increase in the near future driven by the lack of coastal space. In this review I discuss the environmental issues of offshore farming from experience in coastal farms. Even more so than in coastal farms, a rapid and wide dispersal of dissolved waste products is predicted for offshore farms. Despite wider dispersal of particulate waste products, fast sinkin...

China’s agricultural sector faces challenges because most farms are still small scale. China’s policy is to encourage the consolidation of farms and promote farms that are larger in scale. A question that arises is: Are China ’s farms growing? The goal of the present paper is to determine whether large farms in China have emerged or if farms remain small. To meet this goal, we systematically do...