If I look at where the sales pattern shifted, the fact that we sold less bedding plants is not a structural shift, it's because no one is going into the garden".
"Over the coming years, we expect to see less beds in all our hospitals as new services are established in the community".
This study showed that at identical beef live weight produced, the Spr-system required 18% more on-farm utilized agricultural area, excreted 14% more nitrogen and released 12% more enteric methane, but used 22% less mineral nitrogen fertilizer, 34% less fuel, 89% less off-farm fodder purchases, 73% less concentrate purchases and 5% less bedding straw purchases.
In a projected <1 year old population of 51,410, there could be 158 less hospitalizations, 513 <span class="lh">less bed-days, and 1.4 less beds (Table 7).
Similarly in 2030, in a projected <19 year old population of 1,128,585, there could be 338 less hospitalizations, 1060 <span class="lh">less bed-days, and 2.9 less beds required annually to treat LRTIs.
A 12.5% decrease in hospitalizations in an anticipated <1 year old British Columbia pediatric population of 52,032 could result in 160 less hospitalizations, 519 <span class="lh">less bed-days, and 1.5 less beds.
In 2020, a 12.5% decrease in hospitalizations in an anticipated <19 year old British Columbia pediatric population of 1,025,000 could potentially result in 307 less hospitalizations, 963 <span class="lh">less bed-days, and 2.6 less beds required annually to treat LRTIs.
Closing wards is never an easy business, and as the wards are, we're always being encouraged to have less and less beds, which is leading to huge problems.
The inadequate length (too short) of the bed seems to be a more important factor in the development of body lesions than the bedding quantity, because we observed a higher frequency of body lesions in the cows in those farms with short beds and abundant bedding (4-5 kg/head/day) than in the farms with proper length beds and less bedding (1.5 kg/head/day or less).
Unfortunately we found that the situation is just converse: in many THSNE farms the beds were shorter (174.10 ± 3.14 cm) than in the THSE farms (197.25 ± 4.16 cm), less bedding was used and the tethering chain was shorter (60.25 ± 1.97 cm vs. 87.40 ± 1.41 cm).
