... meal for protein, with the cost of using calliandra, that is planting, cutting and feeding it Beginning in the second year after planting 500 calliandra shrubs, a farmer’s net income increases by ... was motivated mainly by demand for quality dairy feed to increasemilkproductionin the smallholder dairy farming systems of the region Milk productivity, productionand income in a given agro-ecology ... benefit of using calliandra, that is the value of the extra milk produced, with the costs of planting, cutting and feeding calliandra Beginning in the second year after planting 500 calliandra shrubs,...
... number and included date of slaughter, date of birth, sex, breed, sire, paternal and maternal grandsires, milkproduction (weight of milk, fat and protein in kg) at latest yield control and during ... Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:7 Background Bovine renal lipofuscinosis (BRL) is an incidental finding in cattle at slaughter The disorder is due to accumulation of the pigment lipofuscin in ... Median ages at culling for BRL affected and BRL nonaffected Danish Holstein and Danish Red cows included in the analyses on milkproduction were 54.9 and 48.7 months, respectively Production data...
... diets Milkand protein production were not affected (P>.05) Rations containing 5.2% fat produced significant increases in percent milk fat, slight increases in 4% FCM and no increaseinmilk yield ... protected fat supplement resulting in a decrease (P>.05) inmilk production, and an increase (P
... experimental and control groups Cows were included as random intercepts and polynomials of time in increasing order from parturition in days (or in weeks for milk fat and protein models) and their interactions ... according to DeLaval instructions Milkproduction data, including kg of milk produced, percentage and kg of milk fat andmilk protein were recorded by the Estonian Animal Recording Centre every second ... were included in the statistical models Milkproduction data and body condition score During the first 90 days inmilk (DIM), cow identification number, date of calving, daily milk yield and disease...
... organic milkproduction industry in the U.S and should be of interest to producers considering the organic production approach and to processors trying to supply the expanding organic milk market ... manure handling and storage structures, feed handling equipment, tractors, trucks, and purchased dairy herd replacements used up in the annual production process, plus interest that the remaining ... for milkIn order to estimate milkproduction costs to compare with prices for conventional and organic milk an equivalent milkproduction is computed (Frank) Following this approach, a milk production...
... concentrations; N and Ca in the buds, Ca and Zn in the branches, K in the fruits, and above all Fe and Cu in the other plant remains are noteworthy A general sequence in the concentration of nutrients ... litterfall is an important factor in conditioning renewal within forest ecosystems in that it may be used as an indicator for characterizing the ecosystem In this sense, annual nutrient return governs ... quantify litter productionin a chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) coppice and four oak (Quercus pyrenaica Willd.) stands, and to make a comparison between nutrient recycling in C sativa and the species...
... ) a and thus to plant intrinsic water -use efficiency (A/g) (Farquhar et al, 1989): where a and b are the discrimination coefficients bridge, UK) against 13 during diffusion into the leaf and ... for g (fig 6) Intrinsic water -use efficiency was higher under elevated than under ambient CO on d216 and d239 only Water -use efficiencyand carbon isotope discrimination Water -use efficiency (W) ... measuring &patled ; in Zea mays, a ] C plant which was grown in both [CO during the experimental period According to Marino and McElroy (1991), in Zea mays is linked to &aatled ; by the following...
... short-term (5 min) increasein CO as2 similation and a concurrent decreasein transpiration, resulting in a marked increase of WUE Transplanting markedly reduced A in all treatments in both experimental ... observed from d in treatments Tt and TtP Such a recovery was not apparent in November, when the decreasein A was more pronounced in the TtP seedlings than it was in the LI seedlings, since the A ... conductance (g) and water -use efficiency (WUE A/g) in the different treatments before transplanting, in the experiments TtP and LI exhibited A values significantly higher than = those in Tt both in November...
... growth and survival rates during field trials in dry zones in Burkina-Faso [I].Each provenance was prepared from bulked seed-lots including a minimum of 20 progenies, and provided by various institutes ... NGuyen-Queyrens A., Loustau D and Ferhi A., Genetic and environmental determinants of water -use efficiencyand carbon isotope discrimination in forest trees, in: Sandermann H., Bonnet-Masimbert ... environment interactions influencing W The present study was aimed at testing the first two conditions in F albida water The experiments were run in a greenhouse at Inra-Nancy (France) Measurements focused...
... [Mirb.] Franco) in the field (in German) Forstwiss Centralbl 106, net spruces Gross K (1988) Net photosynthesis, biomass productionand water -use efficiency of young Norway spruces and Douglas firs, ... daily integrals of WSD, the reduction in net photosynthesis was less pronounced (Figs 1, 2) The turgor loss point ( sank from ) Vtl about -1.6 to -2.6 MPa in spruce and from -1.7 to -3.0 MPa in ... loss point, reflecting complete stomatal closure Consequently, the reduction of net photosynthesis in trees with limited and very limited water supply was more pronounced in summer than in autumn...
... weaned completely Following weaning all ewes were hand milked twice daily and the first milk test was carried out ± days after weaning Ninety-day milkproduction (post-weaning yield) was calculated ... for adaptability to machine milking be investigated The purposes of this investigation were to examine environmental and genetic factors affecting udder conformation andmilk characteristics, evaluate ... dairyman, since they are more susceptible to injuries and they are more difficult to milk especially when milking machines are used Few research data are available for objectively determining characteristics...
... kappa-casein and fibrinogen gamma-chain J Mol Evol 1978, 11:271-277 Groves ML: Some minor components of casein and other phosphoproteins inmilk A review J Dairy Sci 1969, 52:1155-1165 Kaminski S, ... within and across the CSN1S1, CSN2 and CSN1S2 genes and investigate associations between haplotypes and DYDs for protein yield andmilk yield Analysis for CSN2 reveals two haplotypes (2 and 5) ... Variants within the 5'-flanking regions of bovine milk- protein-encoding genes III Genes encoding the Ca-sensitive caseins s1, s2 and Theor Appl Genet 1996, 93:887-893 Svendsen M, Heringstad B:...
... underlie QTL remains a challenging task The use of functional information on lactation networks may in part offer additional insight in selecting positional-functional candidate genes in finemapped ... Grid of ovine and bovine milk yield QTL meta-scores Oxford Grid comparison of ovine and bovine genomes; syntenic regions are shown as thin diagonal lines; aggregated QTL meta-scores for milk yield ... specific framework map [27] Milk recording Milk yields were recorded from morning and afternoon milking from 1999 to 2007 (except from 2004 to 2006 when only one daily milking was conducted) These...
... sires the increasein accuracy through including second (and third) lactation daughter information in the selection index was approximately 6-10% The number of progeny per sire for first and second ... calculated, and results are presented in table IV The economic values for M F, and P in the second breeding goal (H are similar , I ) weightings used in practical selection indices in Europe reflects ... correlated traits (milk, fat and protein yield in lactations 1-3) to that of independent new traits, since in that case separate analyses would contain all the information and would (therefore)...
... subject and scope Research subject: Teaching and studying activities in teaching by project method Research scope: Teaching and studying activities in teaching by project method inproductionanduse ... method of the teacher, including: proposing ideas, assigning tasks, and grouping, assigning works, inspecting, supporting students and evaluating results 1.2.11 Evaluation in teaching by project method ... power use: Nowadays, electric power is used in many works such as: lighting, cooking, operating machines, operating vehicles, communication… in production, travelling, construction and living activities...
... expenditurequintile (FAO,2009) 25 Livestock system 26 Global livestock population andproduction (steinfeld et al., 2006) 27 Production of meat, eggs, andmilk by developing countries 28 Livestock production ... livestock and number of livestock per household 23 Percentage of rural households owning livestock, by expenditure quintile (FAO, 2009) 24 Share of income from livestock activity in rural households, ... sufficiently accommodate and feed its human population with out destroying the enviroment and depleting natural resources???” Land used by region and country group, 1961,1991 and 2007, (FAO, 2009)...
... decreasein butyrate and hydrogen productionand an increasein acetate and ethanol with increasing pH The authors agree that the results are reproducible, reversible and independent of the inoculum ... rate of 100 ºC/min The carrier gas used was helium at 24 mL/min The injector and detector temperatures were set to 200 and 250 ºC, respectively COD was analyzed according to US standard 5220D [15] ... The total change in the electrons distribution can just be explained partly (< 10 %) by the increasein propionic acid concentration Furthermore from day 30 the increase observed in the lactic acid...
... pH 2.3.1.4 Aeration/mixing 2.3.1.5 Temperature 2.3.1.6 Salinity 2.3.2 Growth dynamics 2.3.3 Isolating/obtaining and maintaining of cultures 2.3.4 Sources of contamination and water treatment 2.3.5 ... determination of active chlorine in hypochlorite solutions Worksheet 4.2.6.: Artemia hatching Worksheet 4.2.7.: Determination of hatching percentage, hatching efficiencyand hatching rate 4.3 Use ... of infections 4.4.2.9 Harvesting and processing techniques 4.4.2.10 Production figures andproduction costs 4.4.3 Literature of interest 4.4.4 Worksheets Worksheet 4.4.1: Feeding strategy for intensive...
... BS, MR 2.3 Algal production 2.3.1 Physical and chemical conditions 2.3.2 Growth dynamics 2.3.3 Isolating/obtaining and maintaining of cultures 2.3.4 Sources of contamination and water treatment ... During the final stage, water quality deteriorates and nutrients are depleted to a level incapable of sustaining growth Cell density decreases rapidly and the culture eventually collapses In ... caused by a variety of reasons, including the depletion of a nutrient, oxygen deficiency, overheating, pH disturbance, or contamination The key to the success of algal production is maintaining...