Forage Grasses for Florida's Organic Soils by Joao Vendramini, Philipe Moriel, Lindsey Wiggins

“…In the past, the combination of potentially high forage yields on the fertile organic soils and the long grazing season were the basis for one of the highest concentrations of beef cattle and a viable beef cattle industry in Florida. Presently most livestock operations on EAA are small noncommercial herds on improved and unimproved pastures comprising less than 1% of the EAA. …”
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When Shepherds Mine Mountains: The Impact of Artisanal Mining on Agropastoral Systems in Kyrgyzstan. Case Study of Naryn Province by Irène Mestre

“…Our key findings show that mining income is capitalised in the form of livestock, and that the mechanisms for animal herding by agropastoralists who are not involved in mining activities and who live on the periphery and have little access to formal decision-making processes are at risk of further marginalisation. …”
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Potential Use of Industrial Cocoa Waste in Biofuel Production by C. J. Mendoza-Meneses, A. A. Feregrino-Pérez, C. Gutiérrez-Antonio

“…In particular, the cocoa industrial wastes represent a source of usable biomass for the elaboration of new products such as food, livestock feed, cosmetics, and chemical products, and they can even be used for the generation of biofuels. …”
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Recent Advances in Application of Male Germ Cell Transplantation in Farm Animals by Ali Honaramooz, Yanfei Yang

“…The application of this method in farm animals has been the subject of an increasing number of studies, mostly because of its potential as an alternative strategy in producing transgenic livestock with higher efficiency and less time and capital requirement than the current methods. …”
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Seroepidemiology of Camel Brucellosis in and around Dire Dawa, Eastern Ethiopia by Hika Waktole, Mohammed Aden, Hagos Ashenafi

“…This study involved testing 350 serum samples from camels and interviewing 120 livestock owners. The modified Rose Bengal plate test (mRBPT) and the complement fixation test (CFT) were used as screening and confirmatory tests, respectively. …”
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Poly (ADP-ribose) (PAR) levels in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells (PBMC) during peri-implantation and early pregnancy in buffalo cows by Giovanna De Matteis, Anna Reale, Michele Zampieri, Emanuela Rossi, Federica Signorelli, Olimpia Barbato, Vittoria Lucia Barile

“…However, further studies are needed to clarify the role of PAR modification during the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy in livestock. …”
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Gender Analysis, Milk Value Chain, Kabale Uganda. Kabale: Kabale University. by Tugume, Samuel

“…While a few of the male respondents engaged in quality assurance. the male gender has control over land and livestock. Feed and fodder, labor, technology and equipment, financial capital, and income than the female respondents Also, 72.2% of men have access to decision-making on land, 71.1% on livestock, feed and fodder, technology and equipment, and knowledge and experts respectively. …”
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Prevalence and community awareness of bovine Trypanosomiasis in Wolaita zone Kindo Koysha woreda, southern Ethiopia by Saifemichael Ushecho, Amene Fekadu

“…Generally, both focus group discussion and hematological findings revealed bovine trypanosomiasis is the major constraint for livestock production in the area. So attention should be given to control trypanosomiasis and its vectors. …”
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Utility Potential of Parthenium hysterophorus for Its Strategic Management by Anita Saini, Neeraj K. Aggarwal, Anuja Sharma, Manpreet Kaur, Anita Yadav

“…Parthenium hysterophorus, one of the world’s most dangerous weeds, is responsible for huge losses to the biodiversity, agriculture, economy, and health of livestock and human beings. High competitive success rate and adaptability of the species enable it to dominate diverse types of habitats. …”
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Quand les bergers creusent la montagne. Impact des activités minières artisanales sur les systèmes agropastoraux du Kirghizstan. Étude de cas dans la région de Naryn by Irène Mestre

“…Our key findings show that mining income is capitalised in the form of livestock, and that the mechanisms for animal herding by agropastoralists who are not involved in mining activities and who live on the periphery and have little access to formal decision-making processes are at risk of further marginalisation. …”
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Stratégies d’adaptation des communautés rurales à la précarité hydrique dans la commune urbaine de Téra, dans le Liptako Nigérien by Yayé Moussa

“…However, with the explosion of needs (population and livestock growth), in a context of global warming, the water problem is likely to deteriorate further because of the pressure on the resource and call into question the social responses contributing to universal access to water. …”
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Savoirs locaux sur les plantes spontanées chez les populations de la wilaya de Tamanrasset (Sahara Central, Algérie) by Rachid Meddour, Ouahiba Sahar, Amina Babkar

“…Concerning the other uses (food, fodder, artisanal, veterinary), 17 medicinal plants also have a fodder interest, 15 are used as human food, nine have artisanal interests, and three are used to care for livestock (notably the dromedary). There is still a great wealth of ethnobotanical and especially ethnomedicinal information among the Tuareg ethnic group from Tamanrasset. …”
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Improving the level of food security of the region: cluster approach by M. V. Andreeva, O. B. Kirik, A. S. Borisova

“…It has been concluded that the strengthen state support for meat livestock enterprises of the region is necessary. The analysis of the opinions of domestic scientists on the application of the cluster approach to the development of the agro-industrial complex has been carried out. …”
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ANIMAL ISSUES IN THE POLITICAL AND LEGAL SPHERE IN RUSSIA AND ABROAD by BEZNOSOVA Yana Viktorovna, MINEEVA Tatiana Germanovna, ROMANOVSKAYA Vera Borisovna

“…Particular attention is paid to the use of animals in agriculture, livestock farming, food production, as well as in circuses, zoos and oceanariums. …”
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Sequencing and annotation of the complete mitochondrial genome of a threatened labeonine fish, by Mohammad Nazrul Islam, Shirin Sultana, Md. Jobaidul Alam

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Adaptation strategies to cope with the effects of Climate variability in the Central Plateau region of Burkina Faso by Zoma Vincent

“…In agriculture, these include the use of short-cycle varieties, the planting of trees to counter the high heat, and soil conservation techniques to combat drought. Livestock farmers have also developed strategies such as transhumance and the construction of shelters adapted to the climate. …”
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Climate change and water resources in the Himalayas by Joëlle Smadja, Olivia Aubriot, Ornella Puschiasis, Thierry Duplan, Juliette Grimaldi, Mickaël Hugonnet, Pauline Buchheit

“…The investigations that we carried out at four fieldwork sites, which are representative of Nepalese milieus, aimed to find out whether populations noticed any variations in water resources that affected their practices (farming, livestock breeding, tourism) and if they attributed them to climate change. …”
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The importance and development of carcass classification and grading in beef cattle: an update by Engin Sakarya, Mustafa Bahadır Çevrimli, Mehmet Saltuk Arıkan

“…Standardization and grading; ıt simplifies, facilitates and makes it less costly to move goods across the market channel. In livestock quality standardization, current production is divided into standard shares as much as possible; therefore, animal products are produced in a wide range of quality. …”
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Five crew, how many clergy : pourquoi certains noms collectifs peuvent-ils servir à nommer des membres ? by Laure Gardelle

“…The present paper focuses on these plural uses, which have not been much studied to date, and which also involve non-count nouns that denote collective supercategories (e.g. (these) livestock). The paper first describes the data from two corpora of American English. …”
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Strip-planting Rhizoma Peanut into Grazing Systems by Jose C. B. Dubeux, Lynn E. Sollenberger, Joao Vendramini, Marcelo O. Wallau, Ann R. Soffes Blount, Liza Garcia-Jimenez, Erick Santos, David Jaramillo

“… Nitrogen (N) is one of the major off-farm inputs in livestock systems, either in the form of N fertilizer or purchased feed. …”
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