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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Trends in fungicide resistance in the indo-gangetic plain
Fungal pathogens, particularly in the tropics, exhibit a higher diversity compared to temperate regions. The plants of the Indo-Gangetic plains (IGP) are particularly susceptible to fungal infections due to the region's tropical climate. Increasing incidences of fungicide resistance in the IGP st...
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Trends in herbicide resistance in sub-saharan africa
Herbicide resistance in weeds is an emerging threat to agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), though it remains underreported. High genetic diversity, wind pollination, and prolific seed production in regional weed species increase the risk of resistance evolution. Rising herbicide use, driven ...
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Fungicide resistance trends in australia and new zealand
This chapter evaluates the current state of fungicide resistance in Australia and New Zealand. It also aims to establish trends in fungicide resistance so that resistance in Australia and New Zealand can be better predicted and understood. To accomplish this, the chapter discusses several crop di...
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Trends in herbicide resistance in southeast asia
Herbicide resistance is a growing issue in Southeast Asia’s agricultural systems. This chapter reviews current trends and challenges related to herbicide use and resistance in the region, focusing on major crops like rice, oil palm, rubber, corn, banana, cassava, and vegetables. It examines the p...
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Insecticide resistance in australian field crops: trends, drivers and opportunities for change
Continued reliance on pesticides to achieve yield outcomes places strong selection pressure on pest populations which favours the evolution of traits that enhance survival to pesticides. Like many other countries, Australian agriculture is experiencing a continuing escalation in the prevalence an...
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Trends in insecticide resistance in sub-saharan africa
Insecticides have been central to the management of insect pests of agricultural significance and vectors of diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, development of resistance in key insect species to various classes of insecticides threatens the sustainability of insecticide use in pest manageme...
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Trends in insecticide resistance in the indo-gangetic plain
This chapter covers trends in insecticide resistance in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The chapter begins with an overview of insecticide resistance, its development and mechanisms. The authors then explore insecticide resistance in India and the Indo-Gangetic Plains that span India, Pakistan, Nepal an...
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Trends in insecticide resistance in north-west europe
This chapter presents an update of trends on insecticide resistance in Northwest Europe. It addresses the current status and future estimations of the insecticide market in Europe, specifically in context of evolving agricultural practices and environmental challenges. The chapter then explores i...
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Trends in insecticide resistance in north america
Insecticide resistance has been an issue in north American for over 100 years. Insecticide use has fluctuated across time, but modern chemistries and genetically modified crops have contributed to a reduction in overall synthetic insecticide use in some areas. The use of insecticides has led some...
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Trends in herbicide resistance in southern europe
The evolution of herbicide resistant populations is a key issue in weed management and negatively affects the sustainability of a variety of annual and perennial cropping systems in southern Europe. This was determined by the excessive use of herbicides with specific biochemical targets and the l...
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Trends in herbicide resistance in north africa, middle east and west asia
Agriculture across North Africa, the Middle East, and West Asia faces challenges posed by diverse climatic conditions, varied cropping systems, and weed management issues. Staple crops such as wheat, barley, and rice, alongside vegetables and tree crops, form the backbone of regional agriculture....
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Trends in fungicide use and resistance in north america: the case of canadian wheat production systems
This chapter begins by reviewing general trends in fungicide use in North America. It discusses fungicide groups used in North America, factors affecting resistance patterns and how this has affected patterns of resistance across North America, with a particular focus on the situation in Canada. ...
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Trends in fungicide resistance in north-west europe
Agriculture is important and highly productive in North-West Europe with major crops including wheat, barley, potato, sugar beet, oilseed rape, apple and grapevine. The maritime climate of West Europe is very prone to fungal diseases that require the input of fungicides. Fungicide resistance has ...
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Trends in fungicide resistance in latin america
Latin America plays an important part in producing and exporting a diverse crop range. Considering the diversities of climate and ways which the crops growth in this region, they can be affected by plant pathogenic fungi causing several diseases. A management strategy of these diseases is the use...
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Fungicide resistance in southern europe
Despite efforts to reduce fungicide usage through Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and regulatory restrictions, fungicides remain essential to prevent crop losses. However, fungicide resistance has become a significant issue in Southern Europe, particularly impacting economically important crops ...
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Instant insights: soil contaminants
This book provides a detailed overview of key groups of contaminants in agricultural soils, the range of indicators used to identify soil contamination, as well as the ways in which particular contaminants impact soil, crop and human health.
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Instant insights: understanding and tackling pests and diseases of forest trees
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of pests and diseases affecting boreal, temperate and tropical forests, as well as best practices for their monitoring and management.
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Instant insights: understanding and managing diseases affecting sheep
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the main diseases which pose a threat to sheep production, including diseases which impact the reproductive, nervous and respiratory systems, as well as diseases of the skin and feet. The book also reviews best practices for managing these diseases, ...
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Integrating dairy farming and crop production
This chapter explores the path to net zero dairy agriculture by emphasizing the multifunctionality of Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems (ICLS), accounting for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across farm boundaries, assessing the mitigation potential of farm vegetation, evaluating GHG mitigation te...
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Development and use of methane-inhibiting feed supplements in dairy farming
This chapter explores feed supplements that inhibit enteric methane production. It begins by discussing opportunities to inhibit this through nutrition and then moves on to analyse methane-inhibiting feed supplements. Next, it focuses on the invention and discovery of methane mitigators. The chap...
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Achieving net zero dairy farming: weighing the options arising from new understanding
This concluding chapter to the book Achieving net zero dairy farming takes stock of the key insights provided by individual chapters in the book. It reviews the evidence relating to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) and other pollutants, approaches to their mitigation, and the potential for ...
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Housing strategies to reduce the carbon footprint and improve animal welfare in dairy farming
This chapter focuses on the importance of housing strategies in dairy farming, and its impact on animal welfare and the carbon footprint. It begins by exploring the different types of dairy production systems, and then moves on to the effects of housing on productivity and emission intensity. The...
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Measuring methane emissions from dairy farms
Methane (CH₄) emissions from dairy farms significantly contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, with enteric fermentation responsible for 90% of livestock-derived CH₄ emissions, while manure management accounts for about 41% of the CH₄ emissions. This paper explores various methods for measuring C...
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Sustainability, nutrient and energy flows in the dairy cow: an overview
This introductory chapter comes in two parts. It first sets out the rules of engagement: the complex set of interactions that determine the sustainability of dairy farming. The chapter starts with some basic elements/concepts involved in sustainability. It then provides a simple introduction to t...
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Manure management and processing
Manure management within the United States is considered one of the key hotspots of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Linked to the formation of gases like methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and ammonia, great attention must be paid to this portion of the dairy production chain in order to mit...
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Advances in measuring the water footprint of dairy farming
The water footprint (WF) is a comprehensive methodology used to estimate the total water consumption associated with the production of a product and serves as an important tool for assessing sustainability in the livestock sector. The WF indicates the water consumption per unit of product and con...
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Methane utilisation on dairy farms
On dairy farms, enteric fermentation in ruminants and the handling of manure and slurry cause unwanted greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In contrast, anaerobic digestion (AD) through engineered systems yields biogas or biomethane as a renewable energy with negative net GHG emissions. The production...
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Advances in understanding methane production in the dairy cow
Methane emissions from dairy cows are a process that represents an energy loss for the animal, prompting efforts to reduce methane emissions in dairy cows. Feed additives, particularly 3-NOP and Asparagopsis taxiformis, have shown promise, reducing CH₄ production by 20-40%. However, factors such ...
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Assessing greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farms
Interest has developed in knowing the net greenhouse gas (GHG) emission or carbon footprint of food production systems and to mitigate those emissions toward the goal of no effect on global warming. Quantifying and evaluating production system emissions requires a modeling approach. Models at var...
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Genetics and breeding for reduced methane emissions
Selective breeding in dairy cattle offers a cost-effective, permanent, and cumulative strategy to mitigate methane emissions. By incorporating methane traits into breeding objectives, reductions in methane production of approximately 1% per year can be achieved. This chapter discusses the integra...
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Improving feed conversion efficiency in dairy cattle
Improving feed conversion ratio is important for advancing sustainability and warming neutrality goals of the dairy industry. Traditional nutritional and genetic technologies have advanced feed efficiency and productivity in the dairy industry over the past several decades, and the movement towar...
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The extended phenotype: plants as shapers of microbial communities
It can be tempting to reduce the scope of our concern around crop plants to the harvestable yield of grain or biomass, but plants actually accomplish much more than this. Wider effects of crop plants on interacting organisms and on properties of the agroecosystem represent an extended phenotype t...
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Organic dairy farming: towards sustainability
Ruminants play a key role in organic systems, due to their ability to use grassland resources, legumes from crop rotations and crop residues, and to supply manure for the soil. Grassland-based milk production therefore is likely to be the most sustainable system for dairy cattle in organic agricu...
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm volume 2
The second in this two-volume sequence discusses advances in understanding and managing pests and diseases. It also reviews ways of assessing its nutritional qualities as well as in measuring and minimising its environment impact.
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Global tea science
Tea is the most widely-consumed beverage in the world. Tea cultivation faces a range of challenges in improving yields. The various parts of the book review ways of addressing these challenges, from breeding and cultivation to plant protection and improving sustainability.
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of tree nuts
This collection reviews the wealth of research addressing key issues facing the cultivation of tree nuts. Part 1 discusses the health benefits of tree nuts. Part 2 addresses safety issues. The remaining parts assess advances in breeding, cultivation and the management of pests and diseases.
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Women and smallholder farming
This book highlights the day-to-day challenges faced by women smallholders in regions such as Africa, Asia and South America, whilst also considering how key stakeholders across the agri-food supply chain can support, empower and sufficiently compensate women smallholder farmers for their contrib...
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of tropical fruits
This collection reviews current advances in the breeding and cultivation of key tropical and subtropical fruits. Part 1 discusses citrus fruits whilst Parts 2 and 3 cover soft, stone and other fruits.
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of cocoa
Cocoa cultivation faces a number of significant challenges, including stagnating yields, a narrow genetic base, vulnerability to pests and diseases and environmental impact. This volume reviews how research is addressing these challenges in areas such as breeding and agronomy, understanding and m...
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of temperate zone tree fruits and berries volume 2
The second volume in this collection reviews advances in breeding and cultivation of key stone fruits (peach, cherry, plum and apricot), pome fruits (pear and apple), and berry fruits (strawberry, raspberry, blackberry and blueberry).
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Advances in agri-food robotics
This collection explores and reviews the wealth of recent research undertaken in the field of agricultural robotics, both in terms of core technologies and range of applications.
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Developing alternative animal feed ingredients
This book provides a detailed overview of the range of alternative animal feed ingredients, ranging from plant co-products and food waste, to single-cell proteins and seaweed and algae. The book also addresses the key issues and challenges facing their development, such as the need to meet nutrit...
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Advances in integrated wheat disease management
This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in understanding and monitoring major diseases affecting wheat, the challenge of fungicide resistance, as well the range of integrated management techniques used to prevent and/or control disease outbreaks.
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Achieving sustainable production of milk volume 3
Animal health and welfare are of major importance in dairy farming. This collection looks at the key issues affecting dairy herd welfare as well as ways of optimising dairy cattle nutrition. It also reviews ways of detecting, preventing and managing diseases affecting dairy cattle.
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Advances in precision pig farming technologies
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in precision pig farming, focussing on the application of monitoring technologies and data processing techniques to better manage pig housing, nutrition, health and welfare.
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Advances in poultry genetics and genomics
This collection begins by reviewing current challenges facing poultry breeding. It goes on to review recent research on the genetics of key production and functional traits. The book then summarises key advances in genomic selection techniques and concludes by surveying emerging trends such as th...
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Advances in plant phenotyping for more sustainable crop production
This collection reviews the wealth of research on advances in phenotyping and the influential role it plays in identifying the relative importance of genetic, environmental and agronomic factors in determining complex plant traits, such as yield and resource-use efficiency.
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Advances in precision dairy and beef farming technologies
This book addresses the wealth of research on the application of precision livestock farming technologies in dairy and beef farming. Technologies explored range from the use of biosensors and thermal imaging techniques to monitor dairy cattle health, to robotic milking and the use of virtual herd...
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Developing animal feed products
This volume reviews key research and the challenges faced in developing new livestock feed products that promote growth whilst also enhancing both product quality and safety. This collection also summarises recent key developments in the sector, including a better understanding of gut function an...
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