Sentence examples for closed farm from inspiring English sources
Operating a closed farm in the two years prior to the case breakdown did not reduce the odds of a bTB incident.
The executive vice president of the Charoen Pokphand Group, Sarasin Viraphol, said that the company's closed farm system allowed for "an optimal environment that would be safer for the animals".
In contrast, having a closed farm was not a statistically significant protective factor in this study when compared to all other purchasing strategies.
Because farm B regularly sells gilts to farm A, farm B is probably the source of the MRSA isolated from farm A. Farm B is a closed farm that has not purchased pigs since 1996.
But, closed farm offices and dead cows aren't Noem's only problem; in fact, they're not even her biggest problem.
But Ford says that there are many ways to reduce the impact--moving pens away from the mouths of rivers, for instance, or raising fish in closed farms away from open bodies of water.
Factors regarding biosecurity considerably reduced the risk for MRSA, especially on closed farms.
The alternative to open systems is closed farms where there's no potential for either nutrient effluent or fish to escape into surrounding waters.
More biosecurity items reducing MRSA carriage in pigs were found on closed farms (e.g., different compartments per production phase, boarding platform for sows, washing overalls) (Table 5).
Inclusion criteria for participants were that they should work and/or live on the farm; the farms were either closed farms or multipliers (farms at which piglets are bred and then sold to other farms, where they are raised until ready for slaughter).
Some variables had a similar effect on open and closed farms, increasing risk for MRSA (e.g., injection of antimicrobial drugs, clipping of teeth, and vaccination of piglets) or decreasing MRSA carriage (e.g., presence of a medication pipe separated from the water pipe, delivery room for materials, and keeping the sows in stable groups [i.e., not mixing]) (Table 5).
