Author: Chris S. Jones
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832510957
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Forage crop improvement for improved livestock production and nutrition
Author: Chris S. Jones
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832510957
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832510957
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Proceedings of the Southern Pasture and Forage Crop Improvement Conference
Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses
Author: Beat Boller
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441907602
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Grassland farming in Europe was already established during the settlement of the rst farmers together with their domesticated animals after the last ice age. Since then, grassland provides the forage basis to feed ruminant animals for the p- duction of meat and milk. Depending on the ecological conditions and intensity of usage, various plant communities with different species developed, displaying a rich biodiversity. With the introduction of improved crop rotations at the end of the 16th century, grasses and legumes were also grown to an important extent as forage crops on arable land. In the last decades the importance of amenity grasses increased markedly, due to the demand of the society for new usages like landscape protection. Around 1900 interested farmers and academics identi ed the need for gra- land improvement through systematic selection and seed production. This marks the beginning of breeding and research in companies but also at universities and specialized research institutes. Plant collection started with many of the species that are still of importance today. The collected materials were grouped according to the intended use and some type of phenotypic selection was applied. Seed mul- plication of such populations was performed in pure stands and the harvested seed was marketed. Although the vegetative biomass and its quality are of utmost imp- tance in forage crop breeding, it is the seed yield potential which determines the commercial success of a new variety.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441907602
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Grassland farming in Europe was already established during the settlement of the rst farmers together with their domesticated animals after the last ice age. Since then, grassland provides the forage basis to feed ruminant animals for the p- duction of meat and milk. Depending on the ecological conditions and intensity of usage, various plant communities with different species developed, displaying a rich biodiversity. With the introduction of improved crop rotations at the end of the 16th century, grasses and legumes were also grown to an important extent as forage crops on arable land. In the last decades the importance of amenity grasses increased markedly, due to the demand of the society for new usages like landscape protection. Around 1900 interested farmers and academics identi ed the need for gra- land improvement through systematic selection and seed production. This marks the beginning of breeding and research in companies but also at universities and specialized research institutes. Plant collection started with many of the species that are still of importance today. The collected materials were grouped according to the intended use and some type of phenotypic selection was applied. Seed mul- plication of such populations was performed in pure stands and the harvested seed was marketed. Although the vegetative biomass and its quality are of utmost imp- tance in forage crop breeding, it is the seed yield potential which determines the commercial success of a new variety.
Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures
Author: Monte Rouquette Jr.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128144750
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures is a practical resource for scientists, students, and stakeholders who want to understand the relationships between soil-plant interactions and pasture management strategies, and the resultant performance of cow-calf and stocker cattle. This book illustrates the importance of matching cattle breed types and plant hardiness zones to optimize cattle production from forages and pastures. It explains the biologic and economic implications of grazing management decisions made to improve sustainability of pastures and cattle production while being compliant with present and future environmental concerns and cattle welfare programs. - Documents the effects of cattle grazing on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprints - Discusses strategies to enhance soil fertility, soil health, and nutrient cycling in pastures - Provides information on the use of stocking rates, stocking strategies and grazing systems to optimize cow-calf production of weaned calves and stockers. - Presents innovations in cattle supplementation and watering systems to minimize negative impacts on water and soil health - Includes methods for weed control to maintain pasture condition and ecosystem stability - Describes management strategies to integrate cattle operations with wildlife sustainability
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128144750
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures is a practical resource for scientists, students, and stakeholders who want to understand the relationships between soil-plant interactions and pasture management strategies, and the resultant performance of cow-calf and stocker cattle. This book illustrates the importance of matching cattle breed types and plant hardiness zones to optimize cattle production from forages and pastures. It explains the biologic and economic implications of grazing management decisions made to improve sustainability of pastures and cattle production while being compliant with present and future environmental concerns and cattle welfare programs. - Documents the effects of cattle grazing on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprints - Discusses strategies to enhance soil fertility, soil health, and nutrient cycling in pastures - Provides information on the use of stocking rates, stocking strategies and grazing systems to optimize cow-calf production of weaned calves and stockers. - Presents innovations in cattle supplementation and watering systems to minimize negative impacts on water and soil health - Includes methods for weed control to maintain pasture condition and ecosystem stability - Describes management strategies to integrate cattle operations with wildlife sustainability
Nutritional Limits to Animal Production from Pastures
Author: J. B. Hacker
Publisher: C.A.B. International
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Keynote address; Pastures and animal production; Problems with pastures: problems of animal production from temperate pastures; Problems of animal production from mediterranean pastures; Problems of animal production from tropical pastures; Limitations caused by chemical composition and digestibility: Differences between species in forage quality; Environmental and nutritional factors affecting herbage quality; Deleterious factors in forages affecting animal production; Limitations to intake: Influence of sward characteristics on diet selection and herbage intake by the grazing animal; Effects of chemical and physical composition of herbage eaten upor intake; Animal factors affecting feed intake; Limitations to digestion and utilization: Microbial breakdown of feed in the digestive tract; Digestion and utilization of energy; Digestion and utilization of protein; Utilization of minerals; Overcoming limitations to animal production: Selecting and breeding better legumes; Selecting and breeding better quality grasses; Animal breeding for improved productivity; Overcoming nutritional limitations through pasture management; Forage conservation; Improving forage quality by processing; Supplementary feeding of grazing animals; Modification of rumen fermentation; Integration of grazing with other feed resources; Role of computer simulation in overcoming limitations to animal production from pasturtes; Summative address; Symposium highlights and their relevante to future research; List of participants.; Index.
Publisher: C.A.B. International
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Keynote address; Pastures and animal production; Problems with pastures: problems of animal production from temperate pastures; Problems of animal production from mediterranean pastures; Problems of animal production from tropical pastures; Limitations caused by chemical composition and digestibility: Differences between species in forage quality; Environmental and nutritional factors affecting herbage quality; Deleterious factors in forages affecting animal production; Limitations to intake: Influence of sward characteristics on diet selection and herbage intake by the grazing animal; Effects of chemical and physical composition of herbage eaten upor intake; Animal factors affecting feed intake; Limitations to digestion and utilization: Microbial breakdown of feed in the digestive tract; Digestion and utilization of energy; Digestion and utilization of protein; Utilization of minerals; Overcoming limitations to animal production: Selecting and breeding better legumes; Selecting and breeding better quality grasses; Animal breeding for improved productivity; Overcoming nutritional limitations through pasture management; Forage conservation; Improving forage quality by processing; Supplementary feeding of grazing animals; Modification of rumen fermentation; Integration of grazing with other feed resources; Role of computer simulation in overcoming limitations to animal production from pasturtes; Summative address; Symposium highlights and their relevante to future research; List of participants.; Index.
Xylanolytic Enzymes
Author: Pratima Bajpai
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128010665
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Xylanolytic Enzymes describes the enzyme structure and its interaction with plant cell walls, the properties and production of different enzymes and their application, and the knowledge gathered on the hydrolysis mechanism of hemicellulose. The knowledge gathered about the hydrolysis mechanism of the hemicelluloses, especially xylans, has greatly promoted the rapid application of these enzymes in new areas. Recently there has been much industrial interest in xylan and its hydrolytic enzymatic complex, as a supplement and for the manufacturing of food, drinks, textiles, pulps and paper, and ethanol; and in xylitol production as a fermentation substrate for the production of enzymes. This book describes xylan as a major component of plant hemicelluloses. - Presents a thorough overview of all aspects of xylanolytic enzymes - Gives up-to-date authoritative information and cites pertinent research - Includes studies on xylanase regulation and synergistic action between multiple forms of xylanase
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128010665
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Xylanolytic Enzymes describes the enzyme structure and its interaction with plant cell walls, the properties and production of different enzymes and their application, and the knowledge gathered on the hydrolysis mechanism of hemicellulose. The knowledge gathered about the hydrolysis mechanism of the hemicelluloses, especially xylans, has greatly promoted the rapid application of these enzymes in new areas. Recently there has been much industrial interest in xylan and its hydrolytic enzymatic complex, as a supplement and for the manufacturing of food, drinks, textiles, pulps and paper, and ethanol; and in xylitol production as a fermentation substrate for the production of enzymes. This book describes xylan as a major component of plant hemicelluloses. - Presents a thorough overview of all aspects of xylanolytic enzymes - Gives up-to-date authoritative information and cites pertinent research - Includes studies on xylanase regulation and synergistic action between multiple forms of xylanase
Improving Range Conditions for Wartime Livestock Production
Author: Frederic Gordon Renner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Livestock
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Livestock
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Research Progress on Forage Production, Processing and Utilization in China
Author: Fuyu Yang
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811675422
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This book has 11 chapters which systematically introduce the latest achievements in scientific research and technological application of the forage industry in China, and also cover the laws and polices related to forage production. The main focus of this monograph is the progress of forage science in China. Each chapter in this book contains numerous charts and diagrams further illustrating the impact of development activities in the area. It is the first book in its field and compiled by mobilizing all the research forces in the field of forage grass and under the leadership of China Agricultural University, Lanzhou University, and Sichuan Academy of Grassland Sciences with the support of other related universities and research institutes. China is the largest forage consumption country in the world. Every year, more than 2 billion herbivorous livestock need more than 350 million tons of forage but the supply each year is only 250 million tons. With the policy and financial support of the Central Government, the forage industry in China has been developed rapidly, great progress has been made in the science and technology in forage production, processing, and utilization, and its influence has been increased in the world.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811675422
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This book has 11 chapters which systematically introduce the latest achievements in scientific research and technological application of the forage industry in China, and also cover the laws and polices related to forage production. The main focus of this monograph is the progress of forage science in China. Each chapter in this book contains numerous charts and diagrams further illustrating the impact of development activities in the area. It is the first book in its field and compiled by mobilizing all the research forces in the field of forage grass and under the leadership of China Agricultural University, Lanzhou University, and Sichuan Academy of Grassland Sciences with the support of other related universities and research institutes. China is the largest forage consumption country in the world. Every year, more than 2 billion herbivorous livestock need more than 350 million tons of forage but the supply each year is only 250 million tons. With the policy and financial support of the Central Government, the forage industry in China has been developed rapidly, great progress has been made in the science and technology in forage production, processing, and utilization, and its influence has been increased in the world.
NorFor -
Author: Harald Volden
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9086867189
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
NorFor is a semi-mechanistic feed evaluation system for cattle, which is used by advisors in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This book describes in detail the system and it covers five main sections. The first is concerned with information on feed characteristics, feed analysis and feed digestion methods. The second section describes the digestion and metabolism in the gastrointestinal tract and the supply and requirement of energy and metabolizable amino acids. The third section considers the prediction of feed intake and physical structure of the diet. The fourth section focuses on model evaluation and the final section provides information on the IT solutions and feed ration formulation by a non-linear economical optimization procedure. This book will be of significant interest to researchers, students and advisors of cattle nutrition and feed evaluation.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9086867189
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
NorFor is a semi-mechanistic feed evaluation system for cattle, which is used by advisors in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This book describes in detail the system and it covers five main sections. The first is concerned with information on feed characteristics, feed analysis and feed digestion methods. The second section describes the digestion and metabolism in the gastrointestinal tract and the supply and requirement of energy and metabolizable amino acids. The third section considers the prediction of feed intake and physical structure of the diet. The fourth section focuses on model evaluation and the final section provides information on the IT solutions and feed ration formulation by a non-linear economical optimization procedure. This book will be of significant interest to researchers, students and advisors of cattle nutrition and feed evaluation.
Animal Husbandry and Nutrition
Author: Banu Yucel
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 1789234204
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This book focuses on the animal husbandry and nutrition based on significant evaluations by the authors of the chapters. Many chapters contain general overviews on animal husbandry and nutrition from different countries. Also, the sections created shed light on futuristic overlook with improvements for animal husbandry and feeding sector. Details about rearing and feeding different animal races are also covered herein. It is hoped that this book will serve as a source of knowledge and information on animal husbandry and nutrition sector.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 1789234204
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This book focuses on the animal husbandry and nutrition based on significant evaluations by the authors of the chapters. Many chapters contain general overviews on animal husbandry and nutrition from different countries. Also, the sections created shed light on futuristic overlook with improvements for animal husbandry and feeding sector. Details about rearing and feeding different animal races are also covered herein. It is hoped that this book will serve as a source of knowledge and information on animal husbandry and nutrition sector.