An all-out shift to organic farming in England and Wales could lead to a net increase in Britain's greenhouse gas emissions as a drop in yields would lead to higher food imports, scientists estimated Tuesday.
Environment
Oct 22, 2019
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By the time the food we eat gets to our tables, it has traveled a long way—from production, processing and distribution to all of us consumers.
Environment
Dec 15, 2022
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A group of researchers led by Osaka University developed an early detection method for cow lameness (hoof disease), a major disease of dairy cattle, from images of cow gait with an accuracy of 99 percent or higher by applying ...
Other
Jun 28, 2017
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With natural gas booming across the Front Range, drilling rigs may operate within feet from cattle farms. That shared land use can confound attempts to understand trends in methane, a greenhouse gas and air pollutant—the ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2019
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Emotions can run high when the topic of how much red and processed meat to eat is raised. For many of us, eating these foods is culturally important—often tied to specific dishes and traditions.
Ecology
Jul 17, 2023
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Indian dairy farmers will be able to trial a new portable testing kit that can help target antibiotics to treat cows and buffalo, and tackle the global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 21, 2020
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The increasing rejection of farming technology like hormonal growth promotants (HGP) should be regarded as unethical according to a scientist whose paper was recently published in the journal of Animal Production Science.
Other
Jan 17, 2014
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Ageing animals from their teeth goes back to the time that man first started keeping animals. New research has applied modern statistical techniques to investigate the association between the stages of dentition in cattle ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 9, 2013
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As the global population has doubled to 7.8 billion in about 50 years, industrial agriculture has increased the output from fields and farms to feed humanity. One of the negative outcomes of this transformation has been the ...
Environment
Aug 21, 2020
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Understanding the complex networks of "contact chains" between British farms, could help identify potential routes for spread of infections and improve disease control strategies for the cattle industry.
Environment
Mar 14, 2019
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