Johne’s disease (JD) is a chronic, production-limiting disease of ruminants. Control programs aiming to minimize the effects of the disease on the dairy industry have been launched in many countries, including Canada. Those programs commonly focus on strict hygiene and management improvement, often combined with various testing methods. Concurrently, organic dairy farming has been increasing in...

Abstract Media reports are increasingly drawing attention to animal welfare issues related surplus calves in dairy farming. Most born on conventional or organic farms Baden-Wuerttemberg (southern Germany) which not needed for breeding as replacement heifers sold at about two five weeks of age fattening located northern Germany other European countries. Associated concerns pose an ethical issue,...

Sustainability is de®ned as the ability of a system to `continue'. In view of this de®nition, several aspects of the crop protection activity in organic farming are reviewed according to their ability to `continue'. As no absolute measure of sustainability is available, this analysis takes the form of a comparison between organic and conventional crop protection methods. Two elements of crop pr...

The aim of this work was to characterize a potential target group of people interested in participating into a training program in organic farming in the context of mobile-learning. The information sought addressed in particular, but not exclusively, possible contents, formats and forms of evaluation that will contribute to define the course objectives and curriculum, as well as to ensure that ...

Population growth and climate change challenge our food and farming systems and provide arguments for an increased intensification of agriculture. A promising option is eco-functional intensification through organic farming, an approach based on using and enhancing internal natural resources and processes to secure and improve agricultural productivity, while minimizing negative environmental i...

aim of this study was to evaluate the possible application fields of organic agriculture, the province is a grower's perspective. because of its accurate and appropriate management, soil and products to help reduce the use of chemicals in production and on track to achieve sustainable development, mazandaran province is a leader in modern agricultural practices and organic agriculture has the p...

Over the past few decades the area of farmland under organic management has significantly and continuously increased [1]. This trend, observed across all continents, has been accompanied by a strong expansion of the market for organically produced goods, and a substantial increase of organic farming research efforts, funded through national and international programmes. At the same time, with t...

The study's main purpose is to determine the factors affecting individuals’ attitudes towards organic products from perspective of healthy behaviour. population research people purchasing sales points in Istanbul province. data was gathered with a face-to-face questionnaire 424 shopping product markets, one quantitative patterns. were analysed and interpreted SPSS AMOS programs, frequency analy...