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Cristiana Maduro Dias, Helder Nunes and Alfredo Borba
Nutrition has a very significant impact on animal performance. Given the limited agricultural area of the Azores, the optimization of forage quality, quantity, and availability is key for the local livestock industry?s ability to respond to the challenge...
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Javier García-Gudiño, Elena Angón, Isabel Blanco-Penedo, Florence Garcia-Launay and José Perea
Eco-efficiency could be defined as the simultaneous ability to achieve acceptable economic results with the least possible environmental degradation. Its analysis in crop and livestock production systems has become a hot topic among politicians and scien...
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Cecilia Loza, Hannah Davis, Carsten Malisch, Freidhelm Taube, Ralf Loges, Amelia Magistrali and Gillian Butler
The sustainability of dairying has been questioned, yet cattle exploit non-food resources (especially forages) and provide key nutrients for consumers? health. This study, using different forage types, considered milk?s nutritional quality, focusing on f...
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Ana Sofia Soares, Carla Miranda, Ana Claudia Coelho and Henrique Trindade
Microbial water quality is a major concern in the world, since the ingestion of water contaminated with microorganisms poses risks to human and animal health. The aim of this study was to evaluate the microbiological quality of drinking water on dairy ca...
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Thomas Nordblom, Saliya Gurusinghe, Andrew Erbacher and Leslie A. Weston
Southern Australian farming systems operate predominantly under Mediterranean climatic conditions, which limit the choice of cover crops suitable for enhancement of ground cover and soil moisture retention, erosion control, atmospheric soil nitrogen (N) ...
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