FAO and World Bank promote livestock rearing as a way of poverty alleviation and food security especially among rural poor. Villagers are usually involved in mixed crop-livestock farming. Interviews with villagers in the HableRud basin revealed that some changes have happened and comparing with past decades, fewer villagers keep livestock. They believed that number of villagers who kept livesto...

 Farmers will have to increase production levels to provide food for a growing population, while meeting the current and future welfare and environmental targets and legislation.  There has been a steady decline in the number of farms, farmers and livestock in the UK, with an increase in the average farm size.  Proposed UK super farms are smaller in scale compared to some of the world’s larg...

Livestock producers and processors who deal in beef cattle, hogs, sheep, and poultry are also finding South Dakota to be an excellent location for processing plants and large-scale livestock operations. All this, makes for some general public concerns as residents in communities around the state try to chart a course that will allow for farm development while protecting the environment and deal...

We report here the complete genome sequence of the livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain 08S00974 from sequence type 398 (ST398 LA-MRSA) isolated from a fatting pig at a farm in Germany.

The extent of the loss of life and productivity associated with the breeding of farm livestock is summarized in Table I and shows that in farm stock the stillbirth rate is usually much higher than that in man and that animal infant mortality exceeds human infant mortality by a factor of at least four, and usually ten. Furthermore, in animals maternal mortality rates, particularly in sheep, gros...

Climate change impact studies on whole-farm systems require a holistic approach due to the complexities of biophysical processes, management and inter-relationships of land use within a single farm. This paper details the process of utilising a multiple-objective, strategic land use planning tool to conduct multi-factorial analyses on the impacts of climate change at the farm scale. Two example...

Another important issue is the influence of pathogens from different animal manure (slurry, farm yard manure etc.) on human health and well-being as a direct or indirect cause of human enteric illness, especially in areas with large livestock operations and/or a direct contact between farm animals and humans, be it the general public or farm workers a transmission of diseases is likely. Less im...