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Cover crops for sustainable soil management
This book provides a comprehensive review of the wealth of research on the varied roles of cover crops as a key tool in regenerative agriculture, how best to deploy them, as well as optimising use of different classes of cover crops in promoting soil health.
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Organic sheep and goat farming: opportunities and challenges
Organic goat and sheep farming is a highly diverse type of production throughout Europe and other continents. Current practices are geared to achieve a number of objectives, including sustainability and high standards of animal welfare. This chapter aims to characterize organic goat and sheep far...
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Global trends in pesticide resistance
This book provides a detailed overview of regional trends in the development of resistance to key groups of fungicides, insecticides and herbicides and their implications for future pesticide use.
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of hemp
This book reviews the wealth of research on the global production of industrial hemp, its contribution to the development of more sustainable products, as well as the social, business, economic and political issues that can arise as a result of its production.
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Advances in horticultural soilless culture
This collection reviews current research on optimising substrates for soilless cultivation and assesses recent advances in technologies, such as fertigation systems and process control. Case studies on a range of horticultural crops feature throughout as a means of depicting examples of practical...
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Achieving net zero dairy farming
This book provides a detailed insight into the fundamental processes within the dairy cow and on dairy farms that contribute to and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the strategies that can be implemented to reduce the sector’s carbon footprint.
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Achieving sustainable urban agriculture
This volume reviews research on building urban and peri-urban agricultural networks, the use of technologies such as rooftop and vertical farming systems, as well as providing case studies of particular products from urban farming.
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Advances in pig breeding and reproduction
This collection provides a comprehensive review of the wealth of research on recent developments in pig breeding, including the shift from a primary focus on production traits to traits encompassing improved feed efficiency and disease resistance. The book also considers advances in understanding...
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Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of dairy cattle
This collection summarises and reviews the wealth of research relating specifically to dairy cattle, including understanding behaviour, monitoring welfare and improving current welfare practices.
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Limitations and challenges in broiler production: ethical considerations beyond welfare issues
Animal welfare plays an important role within current developments of the broiler sector. Contemporary concepts of animal welfare focus on enabling animals to experience positive states. As animal welfare science builds on societal concerns about an animal’s quality of life, it cannot be separate...
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Vaccination strategies in broilers
The aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive overview of vaccination strategies in broiler production, focusing on the factors that influence their implementation and effectiveness. To this end, it integrates current knowledge on the development of the avian immune system, pathogen epide...
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Day-old chick quality
The effect of day-old chick quality on health, welfare, and performance remains ambiguous in the scientific literature. This chapter reviews chick quality from three complementary perspectives: physical, immunological, and microbiological. Physical quality is traditionally evaluated using quantit...
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Challenges in achieving antibiotic-free broiler production
Concerns over the indiscriminate use of antimicrobials (AMU) have led to the growth of antibiotic-free broiler (AFB) production. This chapter will attempt to highlight emerging challenges and opportunities for achieving AFB production. Given the enormous public health risks of indiscriminate AMU,...
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Understanding the behavioural needs of broilers
Broiler chicken behavior is shaped by an interaction of genetic and environmental factors. This chapter focuses on the expression of natural behaviors, particularly those that are strongly motivated and potentially linked to positive emotions or affect. These include eating and drinking, foraging...
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Understanding the environmental needs of broilers
This chapter discusses the critical environmental parameters that should be controlled to guarantee conditions for optimum broiler growth, welfare, and health. Environmental needs can be grouped into interconnected dimensions. These dimensions include temperature, humidity, air quality, air veloc...
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Humane end-of-life management of broilers: catching, crating and loading
Ensuring humane end of life management for broilers is crucial for animal welfare and industry efficiency. The process of catching, crating, and loading broilers for slaughter is a critical stage that can cause significant stress and injuries. This chapter summarises studies on different loading ...
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The importance of data sharing between different links in the broiler production chain
The broiler chicken industry is essential for global food security and economic growth, contributing significantly to employment, revenue generation, and international trade. This chapter examines the role of data sharing among key stakeholders, including breeding farms, feed suppliers, growers, ...
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Chick quality as affected by the broiler breeder and breeder house management
Chick quality is initially influenced by the breeder and breeder house management through nutrition, properties of the egg, to how the eggs are managed before they reach the hatchery. The quality of the chick is also influenced by the incubational processes that the egg is subjected to altering p...
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Managing health issues in broilers: respiratory health
A critical pillar of sustainable broiler farming is the effective management of respiratory health, which has significant implications for animal welfare, productivity, antibiotic usage, and environmental impact. Due to their multifactorial nature, encompassing pathogens, environmental stressors,...
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Managing co-products in broiler production: repurposing poultry manure and litter
Broiler production, the process of raising chickens for meat, is a significant component of the global agricultural meat industry. With the increasing demand for poultry products, broiler production has expanded rapidly, leading to various environmental challenges associated with that sustained g...
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Managing breast myopathies in broiler production
This chapter aims to explore the characterizing features of breast myopathies in broiler production. It first examines the suggested mechanisms and predisposing factors that underlie the onset of breast myopathies. The chapter then addresses proposed strategies that are focused on mitigating the ...
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Managing health issues in broilers: first week mortality
As a significant factor can be the first week mortality for broiler flocks to indicate of the health status and performance of the broiler flocks during the rearing period. Several factors, which includes animal related factors, egg and incubation related factors, and external factors, shown to a...
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Breeding for improved health and welfare in broiler chickens
The health and welfare of broiler chickens are increasingly important in the context of sustainable food production, societal expectations, and global challenges, such as climate change. The breeding industry has and will continue to play an important role in improving the health and welfare of b...
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Optimising in ovo delivery of nutrients and bioactive compounds in broiler production
In ovo delivery of nutrients and bioactive compounds during embryonic development is a promising technique to support broiler health, resilience, and performance in later life. However, variable outcomes across studies highlight the need for hypothesis-driven research and methodological consisten...
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Understanding the nutritional needs of broilers
There are several reasons why nutritionists focus on diet composition for broilers. Efficiency, optimal product quality, reducing the environmental pressure and optimizing broiler health and welfare are key factors. Knowledge about which raw materials can be used and how to combine these is very ...
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Concepts of circular broiler production
A more circular food system is proposed to feed the growing human population within planetary boundaries. Exploring the circularity of broiler production shows a high efficiency with low recycling and self-sufficiency. It’s decoupling from feed production causes nutrient disbalances with detrimen...
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Sensor technologies for monitoring broiler welfare indicators
Welfare is increasingly important in broiler production, but can be difficult to measure frequently on large numbers of broilers. In this chapter, different sensor technologies for monitoring broiler welfare indicators are presented. A main distinction is made between body-worn and remote sensors...
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Use of vocalisation technology for early detection of challenges in broiler production
This book chapter aims to define the relationships between animal vocalisations and chicken diseases and welfare, whilst highlighting the novel technologies for their detection. The chapter begins with a general introduction to the use of Precision Livestock Farming technologies, and in particula...
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Challenges in achieving low-input, extensive broiler production
Rearing low input, extensive broilers implies specific challenges related to the limited use of off farm resources and the provision of an outdoor space. Here, we present the challenges and potential solutions to achieve this production. From external factors such as weather and predators to unwa...
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Early feeding from a broiler perspective
The current chapter discussed how early feeding, where chicks receive feed and water immediately at hatch, may be perceived from a broiler perspective compared to traditional delayed feeding, where they are withheld until arrival at farm. Broilers subjected to more than 36 hours of delayed feedin...
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Heat stress in broiler production
The broiler industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors that has developed dramatically to meet the growing global demand for animal protein. Concerns over climate change and global warming have increased average daily temperatures resulting in the incidence of heat waves, especially during th...
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Advances in tomato breeding
This book provides a detailed overview of the recent advances in tomato breeding, focussing specifically on developments in genetics, conventional and modern molecular breeding techniques, as well as strategies for improving biotic and abiotic stress resistance of tomato crops.
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Advances in biostimulants for a sustainable agriculture
This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the development and use of biostimulants in agriculture. It focusses on understanding the mechanisms of action and efficacy of the major groups of biostimulants, including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, phosphate-solubilising microo...
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Techniques for assessing the nutritional content and quality of alternative feed products
This chapter reviews current techniques for calculating the nutritional content and quality of alternative feed products in livestock farming. The chapter begins by first highlighting current advances in alternative feed products. It then goes on to review methods for macronutrient and micronutri...
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Wheat co-products as alternative feed ingredients for livestock animals
This chapter explores the utility of wheat co-products as feed ingredients for farm animals. The review highlights chemical composition, nutritive value, practical feeding, and potential strategies for further exploitation. The co-products this chapter evaluates include, wheat bran, wheat middlin...
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Potential of alternative feed ingredients in fish feed
Aquatic animal production has reached 130.9 million tons, with over 89% destined for human consumption. The remaining portion is dedicated to producing fishmeal and fish oil. It is crucial to recognize that feed-related expenses constitute 40-70% of total costs within the aquaculture sector, main...
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Key challenges in sustainability of alternative feed sources: the use of life cycle assessment (lca)
This chapter explores the key challenges in assessing the sustainability of alternative feed sources, with a particular focus on the use of life cycle assessment (LCA) methods for co-products used in animal nutrition. The chapter begins by defining alternative feed sources and co-products, situat...
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Distillers dried grains with solubles co-products as alternative feed ingredients
The grain-based ethanol production has been increasing as the demand for biofuel additives increases. This has generated co-products which provide a potential alternative livestock feed source, notable wet distillers grains with solubles (WDGS) and dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS). Af...
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Soybean co-products as alternative feed ingredients
Soybeans are one of the most important crops grown, particularly in North and South America. Consequently, soybean-derived co-products are widely available as potential feedstuffs and will likely continue to grow, especially if demand for renewable energy derived from oilseeds expands. Soybean-de...
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The potential of alternative feed ingredients in pig feed
Corn and soybean meal dominate swine nutrition globally, yet rising costs and sustainability concerns have prompted interest in alternative feed ingredients. This chapter examines the potential of alternative feed sources, including small grains, plant and animal by-products, bakery waste, to exp...
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Plant-based alternative feed: sustainability, safety and regulatory innovation
This chapter discusses the importance and outlines the major categories of plant-based alternative feed, then examines key feed safety and regulatory matters. The different categories of alternative feed this chapter discusses include, crop residues, food supply chain refusals, naturally occurrin...
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Lanolin as an alternative feed ingredient
Lanolin is produced from refined wool grease, a natural waxy substance secreted from the sebaceous glands of wool covered animals. Lanolin has many current uses mainly related to cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and industrial applications. Currently, the only feed based used of lanolin is in Shrimp pr...
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Processing techniques for alternative feed ingredients
This chapter examines different processing techniques that make alternative animal feed options available. There are multiple processing techniques, but there are two major divisions: heated and non-heated techniques. Some examples of the different techniques used in alternative feed are extrudin...
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The use of canola/rapeseed meal as an alternative feed ingredient for monogastric animals
The cost of animal production is mainly dependent on the feeding price, almost 70% of the total production cost per animal. These animals need specific nutritional requirements, and it can be typically met through conventional feed ingredients like soybean meals, corn, and wheat. However, rising ...
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Citrus pulp as an alternative feed ingredient
Citrus pulp represents an important alternative feed for livestock in terms of quantity, nutritional characteristics, and bioactive compounds. It is a versatile by-product feed that can be fed fresh, dried and ensiled to ruminants and non-ruminants. Reusing citrus pulp as feed contributes to a ci...
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Potato co-products as alternative feed ingredients in livestock production
This chapter reviews the use of potato co-products as alternative feed ingredients in livestock production. The chapter begins by providing an overview of key nutritional characteristics in potato, which is then followed by a discussion of potato co-product yield and nutrient variability. It then...
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Linseed co-products as alternative feed ingredients
Linseed (or flaxseed) (Linum usitatissimum) co-products, derived from the processing for oil or other industrial purposes, offer significant potential as alternative feed ingredients in animal nutrition. This chapter explores the importance of linseed in livestock feeding, emphasizing its rich nu...
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Key challenges for increased uptake of alternative livestock feed sources
This chapter discusses key challenges for increased uptake of alternative livestock feed sources. It focuses on the key parameters to assess circular feed, such as low land use ratio, food/feed grade status, proximity to the feed mill and nutrient digestibility. The chapter also evaluates the rel...
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Oat co-products as alternative feed ingredients
This chapter describes the use of oats and oat co products in animal feeds, along with potential for utilising these local crops as effectively as possible. Maximising the use of all parts of the crop can make the production of animals more sustainable, both economically and environmentally. Afte...
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Animal by-products as an alternative feed ingredient
The global protein shortage is a growing threat to food security as the world population increases. Finding sustainable, safe protein sources is now a pressing priority. Among emerging solutions, animal by-products (ABPs) remain underutilised despite their potential in animal nutrition. After the...
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Fish co-products as an alternative feed ingredients
This chapter analyzes the paradigm shift from fish "by-products" to valuable "co-products," a cornerstone of the circular bioeconomy in the global feed industry. Driven by static capture fisheries and rising aquaculture demand, by-products now constitute a significant share of global fish meal (3...
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Seaweed and algae as an alternative feed ingredients
Algae include Seaweeds and Microalgae. These largely underutilised resources are rich in proteins and fibre and could be considered as future feeds due to their abundance and ability to be produced without land and to a degree without freshwater. Traditionally, seaweeds were consumed as fodder in...
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Single-cell proteins (scp) as an alternative feed ingredients
The increasing demand for sustainable and efficient protein sources in animal feed has intensified the exploration of single-cell proteins (SCP) as a promising alternative to traditional protein sources such as soy, fishmeal, and corn. SCP, derived from microbial biomass produced through fermenta...
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Upcycling food loss and waste into animal feed
About 33 to 40% of the global food production is lost or wasted at all stages of the supply chain. This inefficiency of natural resource use is unsustainable for feeding a growing world population of people. Recycling nutrients in FLW into animal feed is an underutilized but essential approach fo...
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Farm carbon calculators
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of carbon calculators available to help farm businesses estimate their greenhouse gas emissions and identify ways to reduce them. The book reviews key tools used across Europe, North America and Australia, assesses their strengths and weakn...
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Cover crop establishment
Cover crops provide multiple benefits including nutrient management, erosion control, and soil improvement. Timely cover crop establishment is a primary challenge and a barrier to wider adoption. Cover cropping is particularly sensitive to growing season length and rainfall. Drilling the cover cr...
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Warm season leguminous cover crops
In this chapter the authors review research showing how warm season legume CCs can play an important role in creating sustainable solutions that decrease our dependence on synthetic fertilizers and alleviate environmental impacts of crop production.
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The role of cover crops in improving soil biological health
Cover crops are commonly grown to enhance soil quality by building and maintaining soil organic matter and facilitating a biotic community that enhances crop productivity and resistance and resilience to stress. The physical enhancement of soils not only protects them from erosion, but also impro...
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Cool season grass cover crops
This chapter discusses: (1) how cool season grass cover crops affect soil properties, nutrient cycling, pest and disease control, weed control, and subsequent cash crop yields, and (2) key issues or challenges in integrating grass cover crops into crop rotations. Because soil erosion control bene...
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Warm season grass cover crops
Warm season grass cover crops include sorghums (tribe: Andropogoneae), millets (tribe: Paniceae), and teff (tribe: Eragrosteae). These cover crops are grown in grain and vegetable cropping systems of tropical, subtropical, and temperate climates. Due to their rapid biomass production and extensiv...
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The role of cover crops in improving biodiversity
Cover crops were initially used to improve the soil, prevent erosion and manage nutrients, but they can also be used to alleviate soil compaction, manage pests, attract pollinators and more broadly, increase plant biodiversity in otherwise less diverse monoculture or biculture systems (e.g. corn/...
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The role of cover crops in forage production
Cover cropping provides ecosystem services to farms and communities. One ecosystem service often overlooked is the material output of forage that is possible from cover crops. Cover crops can provide high yield and quality feed for a variety of livestock types. In many cases farmers may generate ...
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Assessing the effects of cover crops on cash crop yields
Cover crops (CC) provide numerous soil, crop, and environmental benefits. However, the benefits of CC on increasing the subsequent crop yield remain unclear and debatable. Here, we comprehensively summarized the existing literature on the (a) various agronomic and pedoclimatic variables which imp...
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Key considerations in terminating cover crops
The management of cover crops includes several key decisions such as species selection, and the timing and methods for establishment and termination. Cover crop termination is one of the most important factors because timely, successful termination ensures that the cover crop does not excessively...
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Non-leguminous broadleaf cover crops
This chapter provides an in-depth review of commonly used non-leguminous broadleaf cover crops. It outlines key agronomic characteristics, management considerations, and the ecological and benefits associated with each species. Additionally, it examines both the advantages and potential challenge...
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Cool season leguminous cover crops
Legumes add nitrogen (N) to agricultural systems via the process of biological nitrogen fixation (BNF). They have long been integrated into crop rotations as forage and cash crops, with increasing adoption as cover crops in recent years. This review explores the role of cool-season legumes as cov...
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Cover crops for arthropod pest management
Cover cropping, the intentional planting of non-crop plants, is a sustainable and eco-friendly pest management strategy. This chapter explores the ecological mechanisms, benefits, and challenges of using cover crops to control arthropod pests in annual and perennial cropping systems. The authors ...
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Cover crop decision support tools
To maximize the multiple agroecosystem services that cover crops provide, farmers and their advisers need detailed information. Assorted groups have sought to distill the large amount of information pertaining to cover crop management into decision support tools to provide recommendations. Howeve...
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Strategies to increase cover crop adoption
Historically, cover crops were valued for reducing soil erosion, providing nitrogen for non-leguminous crops, conserving soil nutrients, and improving soil physical properties. In the last four decades, there has been renewed interest in cover crops as a partial solution to water quality degradat...
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The future of cover crops: opportunities, challenges and r&d needs
This concluding chapter summarizes key issues explored in the book: Cover crops for sustainable management. It assesses current barriers to extending cover crop adoption. It provides an overview of key aspects of cover crop management explored in individual chapters in the book designed to better...
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Current state of the art in outdoor cultivation of hemp (cannabis sativa l.)
This chapter provides a comprehensive and technically detailed overview of outdoor hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) cultivation, focusing on the agronomic principles, physiological traits, and regulatory landscapes that define successful production systems for fiber, grain, and cannabinoid/essential oil...
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Consumers and hemp: demand, trust, and sustainability
This chapter reviews the consumer demand for hemp-based products. It provides an overview of the process that involved the legalisation of hemp products which in turn, led to the need to understand potential consumer demand for these products. The chapter also includes a case study to support the...
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Advances in understanding the nutrient and water requirements of hemp
Understanding the nutrient and water requirements of hemp is essential for optimizing its growth, yield, and quality. This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge on the nutrient and water needs of hemp, highlighting recent research advances and identifying areas...
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Integrated pest management in hemp cultivation
Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) production has increased globally since the 1990s, presenting a need to identify pests in the crop. Many arthropods have been observed in hemp, but economic importance is unclear for many of them. Several pests are more concerning, including corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea...
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Integrated disease management in hemp cultivation
This chapter reviews integrated disease management in hemp cultivation. It first provides an overview of basic concepts in plant pathology, then goes on to highlight key diseases of hemp, specifically focusing on diseases that affect seedlings and transplants, diseases that occur during the veget...
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Advances in the use of hemp in livestock feed
This chapter focuses on the advances in the use of hemp in livestock feed. It discusses the current legal status of hemp use in livestock and poultry diets. It reviews existing research on the inclusion of hemp and its by-products in animal feed, focusing on their effects on animal health, perfor...
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The environmental sustainability of hemp: common metrics and a consideration of cultivation geography
This chapter explores the sustainability of hemp by examining prevalent metrics such as water use, nitrogen input, and pesticide requirements, and offers a new metric: cultivation geography. While hemp has been lauded for its lower water and nitrogen needs compared to other crops and its potentia...
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Canada’s regulatory stance on industrial hemp production
This article examines Canada's complex legal and regulatory landscape surrounding cannabis, exploring the historical evolution of its use, its categorization into marijuana, hemp, and medical marijuana, and the licensing and legal frameworks governing each. The authors discuss how the complicated...
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Weed management in hemp cultivation
Hemp is well known as an effective weed competitive plant due to its rapid growth and canopy closure. As result, weed control in hemp was frequently considered unnecessary for fiber production, particularly under high crop densities. However, recent studies indicate that effective weed management...
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Building sustainable biobased manufacturing supply chains to help hemp reach its global economic potential
This chapter addresses an early view on the supply chain for industrial hemp (hemp) under the crop’s new global legalization. The chapter begins with a brief history of hemp supply chains and recent policy changes in the United States (U.S.) that legalized production and the development and comme...
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Taxonomy and classification of hemp
The taxonomy and classification of the genus Cannabis have been subjects of extensive debate, shaped by both traditional and modern approaches. This chapter reviews key methods, including biological, biochemical, legal, and genetic approaches, and examines how the expansion of the Cannabaceae fam...
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Instant insights: improving the health and welfare of ewes and lambs
This book provides a comprehensive overview of some of the key welfare issues affecting ewes and lambs and discusses the role of precision livestock farming (PLF) technologies in addressing these welfare concerns.
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Instant insights: optimising the use of cover crops
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the use of cover crops in agriculture, their influence on soil health and arthropod biodiversity, as well as best practices to increase cover crop adoption by farmers.
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Instant insights: biological control of pests and diseases in horticultural crops
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the use of biological control agents in horticultural production, focussing specifically on their application within orchards and vineyards.
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Advances in apple breeding
This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in apple breeding, including developments in the use of genomics techniques and bioinformatic resources, as well as strategies to improve biotic and abiotic stress resistance.
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Developments in technologies for monitoring housing conditions for dairy and beef cattle
The global livestock sector plays a critical role in supporting food security and driving economic development, with dairy and beef cattle farming forming essential components of this system. Nevertheless, maximizing efficiency and sustainability in cattle farming demand careful management of hou...
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Enteric bacterial pathogens of pigs
This book provides a detailed overview of some of the key enteric bacterial pathogens of pigs, focussing specifically on Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Lawsonia intracellularis and Brachyspira. The book considers recent advances in understanding pathogen-host interactions, pathogen persistence and...
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Advances in precision poultry farming technologies
The book provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the use of precision livestock farming technologies in the poultry sector, focussing on technologies designed to monitor poultry behaviour and welfare, as well the wider farm environment.
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Improving biodiversity monitoring of agricultural landscapes
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the range of national and regional farmland biodiversity monitoring schemes, as well as developments in techniques used to collect and analyse data for more effective biodiversity monitoring.
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Trends in herbicide resistance in australia and new zealand
This chapter explores trends in the evolution of herbicide resistance in two countries: Australia and New Zealand. After exploring the different agricultural systems in each country, the chapters shows how herbicide resistance has evolved in each case. A particular focus is the development of res...
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