The aim of the study was to assess whether information provided by the BPHS regarding respiratory lesions was associated with respiratory pathogens in the farm, farm management practices and each other.
Associations between BPHS lung lesions present at slaughter and common respiratory pathogens in the farm, farm management practices, productivity and the relationships between the different BPHS lesions were assessed.
Yet the standards must take into account a huge variety of crops, farming practices and farm sizes.
Norton, L. et al. Consequences of organic and non-organic farming practices for field, farm and landscape complexity.
Despite that, Indian farmers utilize animals because of their low capital cost and because tractors offered to them are inadequate for their farm sizes and farming practices.
This study examines the variability of farm structure and farming practices of a typical cereal-sheep farming system under continental Mediterranean conditions with the aim of providing regional data of policy relevance.
Farming practices on pig farms where fruit trees were abundant created opportunities for transmission of the Nipah virus, said Dr. Peter W. Daniels of the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong.
Cornell researchers will study the use of cover crops in organic farming and how different organic farming practices affect yields, both with new funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Organic Research and Extension Initiative (USDA-OREI).
To be sure, the study concludes that the overall impact of climate change on farming is expected to be large: Even with adjustments in both farming practices and trade, farming production would decline by roughly one-sixth, using the baseline scenario for climate change projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and incorporating weather projections over a 30-year period.
We particularly show that maintaining within-field diversity in space and time, reducing nitrogen fertilization or soil tillage as well as using organic farming practices at the farm scale or maintaining seminatural habitats at the landscape scale generally benefit natural enemies, increase biological control and limit pest abundance.
