Sentence examples for feed requirements from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, families staying and keeping their livestock together allowed nomads to herd adult and young animals separately as the social needs and feed requirements of different aninal age groups differ and require particular management practices.

The interface uses farm, location, and group flow, which decreases the number of inputs required per cattle group and allows for more rapid evaluation of diets, feed requirements, and nutrient excretion by location, group, and herd.

Improvements in breeding, disease control, management, and feed formulation have all contributed to faster gains and lower feed requirements per kilogram of weight gain.

Although less than 0.1% of the global acreage of GM crops is cultivated in the EU, more than 70% of EU animal protein feed requirements are imported as GM crop products.

However, because of their large feed requirements, efficiency gains in livestock systems that are based on the enhanced use of cropland-derived concentrate feedstuff can also aggravate land competition for food production8,28,32.

The foundation of the production system models was a herd-level, life cycle livestock feed requirements model, which we adapted and applied for the first time within LCA.

A highly iterative development process that includes feedback from experts and end-users to feed requirement definition, design and application updates are also examined.

These are the feed requirement variables which are composed of the weight of total formulated diet in kilogram or percentage, metabolizable energy (ME) in kilocalorie, and the dietary percentages of crude protein (CP), calcium, phosphorus, arginine, fiber, lysine, and methionine and cysteine (Meth. Cyst).. Furthermore, no upper or lower bounds were set in the model for the feed inclusion rate.

The livestock unit, abbreviated as LU, is a reference unit that facilitates the aggregation of livestock from various species and of various ages using an agreed convention, via the use of specific coefficients established initially on the basis of the nutritional or feed requirement of each type of animal (Eurostat 2016).

Reduced feed conversion efficiency led to lower average daily growth, additional feed requirement and longer time needed to reach the 100 kg bodyweight.

The MoA has reduced animal feed requirement of cereals at 75 000 tonnes, down from 120 000 tonnes last year and even higher before.