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Dell’Orto, V., G. Baldi, and F. Cheli. "Mycotoxins in silage: checkpoints for effective management and control." World Mycotoxin Journal 8, no. 5 (2015): 603–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/wmj2014.1866.

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Silage has a substantial role in ruminant nutrition. Silages as a source of mycotoxigenic fungi and mycotoxins merit attention. Fungal growth and mycotoxin production before and during storage are a well-known phenomenon, resulting in reduced nutritional value and a possible risk factor for animal health. Mycotoxin co-contamination seems to be unavoidable under current agricultural and silage-making practices. Multi-mycotoxin contamination in silages is of particular concern due to the potential additive or synergistic effects on animals. In regard to managing the challenge of mycotoxins in si

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Gillespie, Jeffrey, Richard Nehring, Carmen Sandretto, and Charles Hallahan. "Forage Outsourcing in the Dairy Sector: The Extent of Use and Impact on Farm Profitability." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39, no. 3 (2010): 399–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1068280500007401.

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The extent of forage purchasing behavior in milk production and its impact on profitability are analyzed using data from the 2000 and 2005 dairy versions of the Agricultural Resource Management Survey. Forage outsourcing is more common with hay than with silage and haylage, and is more prevalent in the western United States. Though silage and haylage outsourcing is found to impact profitability, the major profitability drivers appear to be farm size and efficiency. Evidence of significant forage contracting is found in the western United States.

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Luna, John, Vivien Allen, Joseph Fontenot, et al. "Whole farm systems research: An integrated crop and livestock systems comparison study." American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 9, no. 1-2 (1994): 57–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0889189300005580.

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AbstractTo examine the long-term productivity, profitability, and ecological interactions associated with whole farming systems, we established an interdisciplinary replicated comparison of a conventional and an experimental alternative crop-livestock farming system in southwest Virginia in 1988. The conventional system uses the best management practices commonly used in the mid-Atlantic region. The alternative system puts more emphasis on crop rotation, grazing and forage management, conservation tillage, cover crops, and integrated pest management. Each is managed as a year-round system, wit

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Misselbrook, Tom, Agustin Del Prado, and David Chadwick. "Opportunities for reducing environmental emissions from forage-based dairy farms." Agricultural and Food Science 22, no. 1 (2013): 93–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.23986/afsci.6702.

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Modern dairy production is inevitably associated with impacts to the environment and the challenge for the industry today is to increase production to meet growing global demand while minimising emissions to the environment. Negative environmental impacts include gaseous emissions to the atmosphere, of ammonia from livestock manure and fertiliser use, of methane from enteric fermentation and manure management, and of nitrous oxide from nitrogen applications to soils and from manure management. Emissions to water include nitrate, ammonium, phosphorus, sediment, pathogens and organic matter, der

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Golin, Henrique de Oliveira, Rafael Padilha de Rezende, Victor Luan da Silva de Abreu, Patrick Bezerra Fernandes, and Gustavo de Faria Theodoro. "Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L.) and corn (Zea mays L.) biomass production for silage as a function of mechanized tillage systems." Research, Society and Development 9, no. 2 (2020): e67922038. http://dx.doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v9i2.2038.

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Mechanical soil management has a huge impact on early plant development and can promote effects at all stages of the silage forage production cycle. Thus, this work was conducted to verify if a mechanized system of soil preparation influences the accumulation of pigeon pea and corn biomass. The experiment was conducted at the farm school of Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science. The experimental delimitation chosen was randomized blocks, the treatments were two systems of tillage (conventional and reduced), associated to two crops (Cajanus

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Baghdadi, Ali, Ridzwan A. Halim, Ali Ghasemzadeh, Mohd Fauzi Ramlan, and Siti Zaharah Sakimin. "Impact of organic and inorganic fertilizers on the yield and quality of silage corn intercropped with soybean." PeerJ 6 (October 26, 2018): e5280. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5280.

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Background Corn silage is an important feed for intense ruminant production, but the growth of corn relies heavily on the use of chemical fertilizers. Sustainable crop production requires careful management of all nutrient sources available on a farm, particularly in corn-based cropping systems. Methods Experiments were conducted to determine the appropriate technique of corn-legume intercropping in conjunction with the supplemental use of chemical fertilizers, organic manure, and biofertilizers (BFs). Acetylene reduction assays (ARAs) were also performed on corn and soybean roots. Results Com

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Koenig, Karen, Shabtai Bittman, Carson Li, Derek Hunt, and Karen Beauchemin. "PSVI-11 Effects of nutrient management and cropping strategies in a dual-crop forage production system of silage corn and perennial grass on nutritional quality and predicted milk production of dairy cattle." Journal of Animal Science 98, Supplement_4 (2020): 433–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaa278.755.

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Abstract The objectives of this study were to determine the effects of incrementally applied enhanced nutrient management, cropping practices, and advanced production technologies on nutrient composition and in vitro degradability of whole plant corn and perennial grass (tall fescue) and the predicted milk production of dairy cattle. Farm management strategies included: conventional system with manure slurry broadcast, late harvest corn, and grass cut 5 times per year (F1); improved nutrient management with manure sludge applied to corn and liquid applied to grass (F2); improved nutrient manag

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Jones, D. I. H., C. P. Freeman, J. R. Newbold, A. R. Fychan, Elspeth Jones, and Aeronwy Lewis. "Prediction of forage dry matter and soluble carbohydrate content from analysis of expressed juice." Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science 1996 (March 1996): 234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0308229600031974.

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The dry matter (DM) and water soluble carbohydrate (WSC) concentrations of forage are the main characteristics influencing the course of silage fermentation. Knowledge of these parameters would enable decisions to be made both on the need for additive and the type of additive likely to be most effective. Moreover, the degree of wilt could also be followed in wilted crops. The present study was directed to assessing the relationship between the composition of the crop and the volume and composition of the expressed juice. The ultimate objective was the development of on-farm methodology for pre

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Julien, Marie-Claude, Patrice Dion, Carole Lafrenière, Hani Antoun, and Pascal Drouin. "Sources of Clostridia in Raw Milk on Farms." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74, no. 20 (2008): 6348–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.00913-08.

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ABSTRACT A PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) method was used to examine on-farm sources of Clostridium cluster I strains in four dairy farms over 2 years. Conventional microbiological analysis was used in parallel to monitor size of clostridial populations present in various components of the milk production chain (soil, forage, grass silage, maize silage, dry hay, and raw milk). PCR amplification with Clostridium cluster I-specific 16S rRNA gene primers followed by DGGE separation yielded a total of 47 operational taxonomic units (OTUs), which varied greatly with respect to f

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Cevher, Celal, and Bulent Altunkaynak. "Socioeconomic Factors and Sustainable Forage Crops Production in Turkey Aegean Region: A Multivariate Modeling." Sustainability 12, no. 19 (2020): 8061. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12198061.

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The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of farmers’ socioeconomic characteristics on sustainable forage crop production after forage crop subsidies. One of the innovative aspects of the study is the simultaneous modeling of alfalfa, silage corn and vetch production efficiency. For this, the multivariate linear regression model was used. In this way, the effect of socioeconomic characteristics on production is more clearly demonstrated by taking into account the dependency structure between forage crop production. For the study, 487 farmers in the Aegean region, where fodder crops can b

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Champion, G. T., M. J. May, S. Bennett, et al. "Crop management and agronomic context of the Farm Scale Evaluations of genetically modified herbicide–tolerant crops." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 358, no. 1439 (2003): 1801–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2003.1405.

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The Farm Scale Evaluations of genetically modified herbicide–tolerant crops (GMHT) were conducted in the UK from 2000 to 2002 on beet (sugar and fodder), spring oilseed rape and forage maize. The management of the crops studied is described and compared with current conventional commercial practice. The distribution of field sites adequately represented the areas currently growing these crops, and the sample contained sites operated at a range of management intensities, including low intensity. Herbicide inputs were audited, and the active ingredients used and the rates and the timings of appl

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Schoofs, Allison, and Martin H. Entz. "Influence of annual forages on weed dynamics in a cropping system." Canadian Journal of Plant Science 80, no. 1 (2000): 187–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/p98-098.

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Alternatives to herbicides are needed for weed control. Field studies were conducted in 1994/1995 and 1995/1996 to investigate the nature of forage crop-weed dynamics and to test the effect of single year forage crops on the density and community composition of annual weeds in a following field pea (Pisium sativum L.) test crop. Five spring-seeded forage treatments were compared with wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grain crops (with or without herbicides for grassy and broadleaved weeds): winter triticale (Triticosecale) (simulation grazed); spring triticale (silage); spring/winter triticale inte

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Greenwood, K. L., G. N. Mundy, and K. B. Kelly. "On-farm measurement of the water use and productivity of maize." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 48, no. 3 (2008): 274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea06094.

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Maize, as a C4 species, is likely to use water more productively than the perennial ryegrass and white clover pastures typically grown for dairy cows in northern Victoria. However, only estimates of water use by irrigated maize crops are available for this region. We measured the growth and water use of three commercial maize crops used for silage in northern Victoria. Crops under centre pivot irrigation were monitored in 2003–04 (Spray 1) and 2004–05 (Spray 2). A border-check irrigated crop (Border-check) was monitored in 2004–05. The Spray 1 crop was irrigated 30 times and received 782 mm of

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Pandolfo, Carla M., and Milton da Veiga. "Crop yield and nutrient balance influenced by shoot biomass management and pig slurry application." Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental 20, no. 4 (2016): 302–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-1929/agriambi.v20n4p302-307.

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ABSTRACT Crop systems that export large amounts of nutrients from the farm may require higher doses of animal manure than those needed for grain production. This study aimed to evaluate the yield of crops and to determine the simplified nutrient balance in three management systems of shoot biomass of crops (cover-grain, cover-silage and hay-silage) associated with five fertilization treatments (control, soluble fertilizer and three doses of pig slurry). The experimental design was a split plot, arranged in randomized blocks with four replicates. The management systems of shoot biomass did not

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Medrano, H., M. M. Chaves, C. Porqueddu, and S. Caredda. "Improving Forage Crops for Semi-Arid Areas." Outlook on Agriculture 27, no. 2 (1998): 89–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003072709802700205.

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In semi-arid areas, forage crops for grazing are suitable for extensive, marginal lands because they can sustain competitive meat or milk production, they protect against soil erosion risks, and they can form the basis of an alternative sustainable agriculture. Drought is the main limiting factor to plant growth in these lands, seriously affecting total herbage production and seasonal availability of forage. Recent research work looking for new cultivars of some annual self-reseeding pasture crops (annual rye grass, lupin and subterranean clover) with an enhanced capacity for herbage or seed p

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Yılmaz, Hilal, Tugay Ayasan, Cengiz Sağlam, and Mevlüt Gül. "Doğu Akdeniz Bölgesinde Süt Sığırcılığı İşletmelerinin Sosyo-Ekonomik Özellikleri ve Süt Sığırcılığı Faaliyetinde Yem Kullanım Durumu." Turkish Journal of Agriculture - Food Science and Technology 8, no. 1 (2020): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.24925/turjaf.v8i1.89-94.2749.

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The aim of this study was to determine the socio-economic structures of dairy cattle farms and feed usage in dairy cattle sector in the Mediterranean Region provinces (Adana, Osmaniye, Mersin, Hatay, Kahramanmaraş) of Turkey. According to the results of the research, it was determined that the family sourced labour force was used at a higher rate than the foreign labour force during dairy cattle production activities. It was found that forage crops were produced in 62% of the farms where silage maize, alfalfa, barley and vetch covered the highest acreages, respectively. A large proportion of t

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Misra, A. K., A. P. Singh, D. S. Katiyar, M. S. Dhanoa, and A. C. Longland. "Nutritional evaluation of stovers of various strains of sorghum: chemical composition, in sacco dry matter disappearance and silage quality." BSAP Occasional Publication 22 (1998): 341–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263967x00033061.

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Sorghum is a multipurpose crop where all parts of the plant are used for human food, animal food, fuel and fabrication. In comparison to other cereal crops it requires little water and it is tolerant to poor soils and adverse climatic conditions. It is one of the most widely grown crops in India particularly in semi-arid and rain-fed regions where the potential for crop and livestock production is limited by the availability of water. During the kharif season (July to October), it occupies about 10 million ha of land and produces a large quantity of stover which is given to farm livestock. The

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Teston, Marta, Daniel Villalba, Marco Berton, Maurizio Ramanzin, and Enrico Sturaro. "Relationships between Organic Beef Production and Agro-Ecosystems in Mountain Areas: The Case of Catalan Pyrenees." Sustainability 12, no. 21 (2020): 9274. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12219274.

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This study analyzed the link between organic beef production and agroecosystems in mountain areas and the potential effects of land use change in eight farms of Catalan Pyrenees with a three step approach: (i) assessment of structural and management features; (ii) comparison of forage productivity and manure loads of 71 farmland parcels in relation with management intensity (natural meadows, seminatural meadows, temporary crops) and, for meadow parcels, with the farmers’ willingness to convert them to temporary crops; (iii) life cycle assessment of the environmental impacts. Each farm managed

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Abera, Mergia, and Tekleyohannes Berhanu. "Farmers’ preference for improved grasses and legume forage species in six mixed farming system districts of southern region of Ethiopia." Agricultural Science and Practice 4, no. 2 (2017): 23–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/agrisp4.02.023.

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Participatory on-farm evaluation of improved forage crops was conducted in six mixed farming system districts of Southern Ethiopia with the objective to identify farmers preferred forage crops (legumes and grasses). Two annual forage legumes (Vigna unguiculata L. (cow pea) and Lablab purpureus (L.), two perennial legumes (Medicago sativa (L.) (alfalfa) and Desmodium intortum (Mill.) Urb. (green-leaf)), and three perennial grasses (Chloris gayana Knuth (Rhodes grass) and two Pennisetum purpureum Schumach (elephant grass) accessions (No.16800 and 16798)) were evaluated in the study. The major fa

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Evans, J., G. Scott, D. Lemerle, et al. "Impact of legume 'break' crops on the residual amount and distribution of soil mineral nitrogen." Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 54, no. 8 (2003): 763. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ar02149.

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Important factors in the successful uptake of grain legumes by cereal growers have been their capacity to increase soil N and control cereal disease, as these have underpinned high yields in following wheat crops. However, alternative 1-year legume crops are required to introduce additional biodiversity and management flexibility for cereal growers. The effects on soil mineral N and potential contribution to soil total N of other legume enterprises were studied. These included vetch (Vicia bengalhensis) or clovers (mix of Trifolium alexandrinum, T.�versiculosum, T. resupinatum) managed for gre

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Santos, R. D., A. L. A. Neves, L. G. R. Pereira, et al. "Performance, agronomic traits, ensilability and nutritive value of pearl millet cultivar harvested at different growth stages." Journal of Agricultural Science 158, no. 3 (2020): 225–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021859620000222.

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AbstractPearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.) is an important crop for rainfed production systems and can play a significant role as a feed source for ruminants owing to its high yield and drought tolerance. It is well-established that the maturity stage can influence the chemical composition as well as the nutritional value of crops traditionally used for silage production, although quantitative evidence that this occurs with pearl millet under rainfed conditions is lacking. The current research assessed the agronomic characteristics, ensilability, intake and digestibility of a Brazilian

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Fedak, N. M., S. P. Chumachenko, and I. V. Dushara. "EFFICIENCY OF USING IN FEEDING CALVES VETCH-OAT SILAGE PREPARED WITH PROBIOTICS." Scientific and Technical Bulletin оf State Scientific Research Control Institute of Veterinary Medical Products and Fodder Additives аnd Institute of Animal Biology 22, no. 1 (2021): 236–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.36359/scivp.2021-22-1.29.

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The results of the study of the effectiveness of new probiotic preparations based on strains of probiotic microorganisms in the preparation of silage from cereal-legume mixtures of annual forage crops with high humidity and their impact on the interior performance and productivity of fattening calves. in production conditions, two variants of vetch-oat silage were preserved, the control one was fermented with BPS-L leaven at a dose of 10 ml per tone, and the experimental one was preserved with probiotic preparation KT-L 18/1 at a dose of 8 ml per tone of green mass. Both preparations are

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Murphy, William M., John R. Rice, and David T. Dugdale. "Dairy farm feeding and income effects of using Voisin grazing management of permanent pastures." American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 1, no. 4 (1986): 147–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0889189300001211.

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AbstractPermanent pastures produce far below their potential, as they are usually managed in the northcentral and northeastern United States. Dairy farmers in these regions generally feed their cattle year-round from stored forage and purchased concentrates, and use permanent pastures as mere holding or exercise areas, grazing them continuously. This practice involves high operating costs that, combined with lower milk prices, have resulted in greatly reduced profit margins. Farming practices that return more net income are needed. The Voisin system of rotational grazing management, which appl

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Mooleki, S. P., Y. Gan, R. L. Lemke, R. P. Zentner, and C. Hamel. "Effect of green manure crops, termination method, stubble crops, and fallow on soil water, available N, and exchangeable P." Canadian Journal of Plant Science 96, no. 5 (2016): 867–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2015-0336.

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Green manure crops may have a role to play in the development of sustainable agricultural systems in the semiarid northern Great Plains of North America. This study determined the benefits of different green manure crops, seeding dates, and termination methods on soil nitrogen, phosphorus, and moisture, as well as the performance of durum wheat following green manures the following year. Field experiments were conducted at Swift Current, Saskatchewan, from 2006 to 2009. Three green manure crops [forage pea (Pisum sativum L.), chickling vetch (Lathyrus sativus L.), and black lentil (Lens culina

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Pembleton, K. G., R. P. Rawnsley, J. L. Jacobs, et al. "Evaluating the accuracy of the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) simulating growth, development, and herbage nutritive characteristics of forage crops grown in the south-eastern dairy regions of Australia." Crop and Pasture Science 64, no. 2 (2013): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/cp12372.

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Pasture-based dairy farms are a complex system involving interactions between soils, pastures, forage crops, and livestock as well as the economic and social aspects of the business. Consequently, biophysical and farm systems models are becoming important tools to study pasture-based dairy systems. However, there is currently a paucity of modelling tools available for the simulation of one key component of the system—forage crops. This study evaluated the accuracy of the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) in simulating dry matter (DM) yield, phenology, and herbage nutritive char

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Aarts, H. F. M., E. E. Biewing, and H. van Keulen. "Dairy farming systems based on efficient nutrient management." Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science 40, no. 3 (1992): 285–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.18174/njas.v40i3.16514.

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In Dutch dairy farming, dramatic nutrient losses occur, causing serious environmental problems, and representing an economic and energy waste. So farming systems have to be developed based on efficient nutrient management. A dairy farm is characterized as a system with soils and crops, forage, cattle, and manure as main components. Simple models of nutrient flows in and between components of the farming system were used to design a prototype system for a new experimental farm on sandy soil, which has to meet strict environmental demands. Experimental results of this farm will be used to improv

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McCartney, D., L. Townley-Smith, F. C. Stevenson, and J. R. Pearen. "Seeding ratios and rates that maximize annual forage production in Black soil zones of central Saskatchewan." Canadian Journal of Plant Science 85, no. 3 (2005): 615–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/p03-227.

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Three different seeding densities and four seeding ratios of spring and fall crop components for annual forage production were evaluated for maximizing silage and fall regrowth yield in a 3-yr study at Melfort, Saskatchewan. Binary mixtures of a spring cereal, barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) or oat (Avena sativa L.), and a fall crop, fall rye (Secale cereale L.) or Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.), were seeded at three total stand seed densities (150, 275 and 400 seeds m-2), which consequently resulted in the following spring:fall seeding crop component ratios: 1:0, 2:1, 1:2 and 0:1. Bot

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Jégo, Guillaume, C. Alan Rotz, Gilles Bélanger, Gaëtan F. Tremblay, Édith Charbonneau, and Doris Pellerin. "Simulating forage crop production in a northern climate with the Integrated Farm System Model." Canadian Journal of Plant Science 95, no. 4 (2015): 745–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/cjps-2014-375.

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Jégo, G., Rotz, C. A., Bélanger, G., Tremblay, G. F., Charbonneau, E. and Pellerin, D. 2015. Simulating forage crop production in a northern climate with the Integrated Farm System Model. Can. J. Plant Sci. 95: 745–757. Whole-farm simulation models are useful tools for evaluating the effect of management practices and climate variability on the agro-environmental and economic performance of farms. A few process-based farm-scale models have been developed, but none has been evaluated in northern regions with boreal and hemiboreal climates characterized by a short growing season and a long perio

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PARKER, P., J. INGWERSEN, P. HÖGY, E. PRIESACK, and J. AURBACHER. "Simulating regional climate-adaptive field cropping with fuzzy logic management rules and genetic advance." Journal of Agricultural Science 154, no. 2 (2015): 207–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021859615000490.

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SUMMARYAgriculture is a largely technical endeavour involving complicated managerial decision-making that affects crop performance. Farm-level modelling integrates crop models with agent behaviour to account for farmer decision-making and complete the representation of agricultural systems. To replicate an important part of agriculture in Central Europe a crop model was calibrated for a unique region's predominant crops: winter wheat, winter and spring barley, silage maize and winter rapeseed. Their cultivation was then simulated over multiple decades at daily resolution to test validity and s

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Tautges, Nicole E., Jessica R. Goldberger, and Ian C. Burke. "A Survey of Weed Management in Organic Small Grains and Forage Systems in the Northwest United States." Weed Science 64, no. 3 (2016): 513–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1614/ws-d-15-00186.1.

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A lack of information regarding weed control, relative to conventional systems, has left organic growers largely on their own when devising weed management systems for organic crops. As interest in organic weed management increases, researchers need more information regarding the type and number of weed control practices undertaken on organic farms. A survey of certified organic growers was conducted in five states in the northwest United States to identify organic weed management programs and what grower and farm-operation characteristics were factors in weed management program design. Three

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Baysal-Gurel, Fulya, Md Niamul Kabir, and Prabha Liyanapathiranage. "Effect of Organic Inputs and Solarization for the Suppression of Rhizoctonia solani in Woody Ornamental Plant Production." Plants 8, no. 5 (2019): 138. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants8050138.

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Soilborne diseases are the most economically significant problem faced by Southern region nursery producers. The goal of this research was to improve Rhizoctonia root rot disease management through the use of soil solarization alone and in combination with biofumigant cover crops—arugula ‘Astro’ (Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa), mustard green ‘Amara’ (Brassica carinata), and turnip ‘Purple top forage’ (B. rapa); good quality compost and mustard meal amendment. The experiments were established as on-farm trials in 2016 and 2017 with prevalent Rhizoctonia solani population in propagation beds. All

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Kurmanova, G. K. "On-farm land use management of agricultural entities." Problems of AgriMarket, no. 1 (March 15, 2021): 132–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.46666/2021-1-2708-9991.16.

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The issues of land legislation in the field of regulation of land relations have been identified. It was determined that pre-reform period was characterized by the planned development of economy, on-farm land management design was mandatory and was of a directive nature. The author notes that the Rules for Rational Use of Agricultural Lands establish the existence of onfarm land management projects aimed at their rational use. The results of the analysis showed that currently in the land legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan there are no clear requirements for drafting projects in the syst

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BUDI, SANTOSO, BAMBANG PRASETIYONO, and PURNAWENI HARTUTI. "THE PRIORITY OF BEEF CATTLE FARM DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN SEMARANG REGENCY USING AHP AND SWOT (A’WOT) METHOD." Journal of Sustainability Science and Management 15, no. 6 (2020): 125–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.46754/jssm.2020.08.011.

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The development of a directed and sustainable beef cattle farm can be achieved if the development strategy plan is based on existing real problems. This study aims to determine the priority of beef cattle farm development strategies in Semarang Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. The A’WOT method was applied in this study, by integrating strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) and the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). After determining the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats found in beef cattle farm business, group weights and SWOT factors were calculat

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Chapman, D. F., J. Hill, J. Tharmaraj, D. Beca, S. N. Kenny, and J. L. Jacobs. "Increasing home-grown forage consumption and profit in non-irrigated dairy systems. 1. Rationale, systems design and management." Animal Production Science 54, no. 3 (2014): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/an12295.

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The profitability of dairy businesses in southern Australia is closely related to the amount of feed consumed from perennial ryegrass-dominant pasture. Historically, the dairy industry has relied on improvements in pasture productivity and utilisation to support profitable increases in stocking rate and milk production per hectare. However, doubts surround the extent to which the industry can continue to rely on perennial ryegrass technology to provide the necessary productivity improvements required into the future. This paper describes the design and management of a dairy systems experiment

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Nieto, María, Olivia Barrantes, Liliana Privitello, and Ramón Reiné. "Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Beef Grazing Systems in Semi-Arid Rangelands of Central Argentina." Sustainability 10, no. 11 (2018): 4228. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10114228.

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The livestock sector can be a major contributor to the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Within the sector, beef production produces the largest proportion of the livestock sector’s direct emissions. The objective of this study was to assess the on-farm GHG emissions in semi-arid rangelands in Argentina and to identify the relationship between emissions and current farm management practices. A survey recorded detailed information on farm management and characteristics. Assessments of GHG emissions were based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Tier 2 protocols.

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Ungureanu, George, Gabriela Ignat, Eduard Boghita, et al. "Good Management Practices in Managing the Most Important Factors to Ensure Dureble Soil Quality." Revista de Chimie 68, no. 10 (2017): 2350–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.37358/rc.17.10.5884.

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The importance of sustainable development has started to be acknowledged in Romania as well, once the various pollution sources and the restrictions affecting industrial and agricultural pollution were identified, from an economic and ecological standpoint. Sustainable development represents the need of raising awareness about environmental protection and educating people, and this aspect is reflected by the evolution of communal policies in recent years, policies marked by a shift from an approach based on constraints and sanctions to a higher level of flexibility, based on incentives. The pu

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FINNERAN, E., P. CROSSON, P. O'KIELY, L. SHALLOO, D. FORRISTAL, and M. WALLACE. "Stochastic simulation of the cost of home-produced feeds for ruminant livestock systems." Journal of Agricultural Science 150, no. 1 (2011): 123–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002185961100061x.

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SUMMARYAn agro-economic simulation model was developed to facilitate comparison of the impact of management, market and biological factors on the cost of providing ruminant livestock with feed grown on the farm (home produced feed). Unpredictable year-to-year variation in crop yields and input prices were identified as quantifiable measures of risk affecting feed cost. Stochastic analysis was used to study the impact of yield and input price risk on the variability of feed cost for eight feeds grown in Ireland over a 10-year period. Intensively grazed perennial ryegrass was found to be the low

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Chapman, D. F., D. Beca, J. Hill, J. Tharmaraj, J. L. Jacobs, and B. R. Cullen. "Increasing home-grown forage consumption and profit in non-irrigated dairy systems. 4. Economic performance." Animal Production Science 54, no. 3 (2014): 256. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/an13186.

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The profitability of dairy farm systems in southern Australia is closely related to the amount of pasture grown and consumed on-farm by dairy cows. However, there are doubts regarding the extent to which gains in feed supply from perennial ryegrass pasture can continue to support productivity growth in the industry. A farmlet experiment was conducted in south-western Victoria for 4 years (June 2005–May 2009), comparing a production system based on the use of forage species that complement perennial ryegrass in their seasonal growth pattern (‘Complementary Forages’, or CF) with a well managed s

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Wayman, Sandra, Valentine Debray, Stephen Parry, Christophe David, and Matthew R. Ryan. "Perspectives on Perennial Grain Crop Production among Organic and Conventional Farmers in France and the United States." Agriculture 9, no. 11 (2019): 244. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture9110244.

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Perennial grain crops are currently being developed, yet little is known about farmer interest in these new crops. We conducted an online survey in France and the United States to evaluate interest in perennial grains. Results show that 57% of the farmers who responded reported they were “interested” or “very interested” in growing perennial grains, whereas 41% reported they needed more information. Respondents consistently ranked “to increase or maintain farm profitability” and “to improve soil health” among the top reasons why they were interested in growing perennial grains. Reasons why far

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Hamilton-Manns, Mark, and Rob Crothers. "Farmer experience of perennial ryegrass endophyte on a Manawatu dairy farm." NZGA: Research and Practice Series 7 (January 1, 1999): 51–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.33584/rps.7.1999.3398.

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Case studies of two Manawatu properties currently experiencing ryegrass staggers (RGS) are presented; a dairy farm and a run-off grazing both dairy heifers and intensive bull beef. Before its conversion from a sheep and cattle enterprise to dairying an outbreak of RGS was experienced in 1987. Tall fescue-based pastures were established to minimise the potential threat of RGS. In the intervening 12 years high endophyte ryegrass cultivars have been established and hotter, drier summers are being experienced in this region. Severe cases of RGS have been observed in the last three years. On the da

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Koehler, Brigitte, Michael Diepolder, Johannes Ostertag, Stefan Thurner, and Hubert Spiekers. "Dry matter losses of grass, lucerne and maize silages in bunker silos." Agricultural and Food Science 22, no. 1 (2013): 145–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.23986/afsci.6715.

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An efficient feed management is important for a sustainable and economic agricultural production. One of the main points for improving the efficiency is the reduction of feed losses. In the present investigation the dry matter (DM) losses of grass, lucerne and maize silages in farm scaled bunker silos were analysed. The method of determining DM losses was the total-in versus total-out DM mass flow of the silos, including the determination of DM content and other silage parameters via manual sampling. The results taken from 48 silos showed on average for all investigated crops 9–12% of DM losse

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Haughton, A. J., G. T. Champion, C. Hawes, et al. "Invertebrate responses to the management of genetically modified herbicide–tolerant and conventional spring crops. II. Within-field epigeal and aerial arthropods." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 358, no. 1439 (2003): 1863–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2003.1408.

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The effects of the management of genetically modified herbicide–tolerant (GMHT) crops on the abundances of aerial and epigeal arthropods were assessed in 66 beet, 68 maize and 67 spring oilseed rape sites as part of the Farm Scale Evaluations of GMHT crops. Most higher taxa were insensitive to differences between GMHT and conventional weed management, but significant effects were found on the abundance of at least one group within each taxon studied. Numbers of butterflies in beet and spring oilseed rape and of Heteroptera and bees in beet were smaller under the relevant GMHT crop management,

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Hassanali, Ahmed, Hans Herren, Zeyaur R. Khan, John A. Pickett, and Christine M. Woodcock. "Integrated pest management: the push–pull approach for controlling insect pests and weeds of cereals, and its potential for other agricultural systems including animal husbandry." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363, no. 1491 (2007): 611–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.2173.

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This paper describes the ‘push–pull’ or ‘stimulo-deterrent diversionary’ strategy in relation to current and potential examples from our own experiences. The push–pull effect is established by exploiting semiochemicals to repel insect pests from the crop (‘push’) and to attract them into trap crops (‘pull’). The systems exemplified here have been developed for subsistence farming in Africa and delivery of the semiochemicals is entirely by companion cropping, i.e. intercropping for the push and trap cropping for the pull. The main target was a series of lepidopterous pests attacking maize and o

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Hoshide, Aaron K., Timothy J. Dalton, and Smith N. Stewart. "Profitability of coupled potato and dairy farms in Maine." Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 21, no. 4 (2006): 261–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/raf2006146.

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AbstractAfter decades of farm specialization, re-integrating crop and livestock farming systems is being reconsidered as a key step toward sustainable agriculture. The relative profitability of Maine farms integrating crops and livestock is compared to non-integrated or conventional farms. Crop and livestock integration in Maine occurs through either diversified on-farm integration or, more commonly, through coupled interactions between specialized crop and livestock producers. Potato and dairy systems coupled for only 2 years (short-term) had greater profitability compared to conventional sys

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McCormick, J. I., J. W. Paulet, L. W. Bell, M. Seymour, M. P. Ryan, and S. R. McGrath. "Dual-purpose crops: the potential to increase cattle liveweight gains in winter across southern Australia." Animal Production Science 61, no. 11 (2021): 1189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/an19231.

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Context Dual-purpose wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and canola (Brassica napus L.) crops have been extensively researched for grazing in Australian farming systems, with a focus on grazing by sheep. In some regions, dual-purpose crops have been grazed by cattle, but there have been reports of animal health problems. Aims This paper sought to collate all known experiments conducted throughout Australia of cattle grazing dual-purpose crops, in order to evaluate grazing management options for cattle on dual-purpose crops that result in high growth rates and good animal health outcomes. Methods Ther

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Grillo, Federico, Ilaria Piccoli, Ivan Furlanetto, et al. "Agro-Environmental Sustainability of Anaerobic Digestate Fractions in Intensive Cropping Systems: Insights Regarding the Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Crop Performance." Agronomy 11, no. 4 (2021): 745. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11040745.

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Digestate is an anaerobic digestion by-product rich in inorganic-nitrogen (N) that can be used as an organic fertilizer. Digestate agronomic efficiency and its impact on the environment have not yet been studied in detail, therefore this study tries to fill this gap. The agro-environmental sustainability of digestate fractions was evaluated in a holistic way by comparing the best management practices available in the Veneto Region agroecosystem. A farm experiment involving mineral fertilizer and both liquid and solid digestate fractions was established involving silage winter wheat and silage

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STEWART, A. A., S. M. LITTLE, K. H. OMINSKI, K. M. WITTENBERG, and H. H. JANZEN. "Evaluating greenhouse gas mitigation practices in livestock systems: an illustration of a whole-farm approach." Journal of Agricultural Science 147, no. 4 (2009): 367–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021859609008764.

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SUMMARYAs agriculture contributes about 0·08 of Canada's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reducing agricultural emissions would significantly decrease total Canadian GHG output. Evaluating mitigation practices is not always easy because of the complexity of farming systems in which one change may affect many processes and associated emissions. The objective of the current study was to compare the effects of selected management practices on net whole-farm emissions, expressed in CO2equivalents (CO2e) from a beef production system, as estimated for hypothetical farms at four disparate locations i

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Senyk, I. I. "FEED PRODUCTIVITY OF WINTER FEED AGROPHYTOCENOSIS, DEPENDING ON THE FACTORS OF FARMING TECHNOLOGY." Podilian Bulletin: Agriculture, Engineering, Economics, no. 32 (June 29, 2020): 68–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.37406/2706-9052-2020-1-8.

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Among the factors that determine the efficiency and success of the livestock industry is the science-based production of high quality feed. The solution to this problem is impossible without field feed production, engaged in the cultivation of annual mixtures. Among the large number of forage crops in the western forest-steppe are worthy of annual mixtures, in particular winter, which is highly valued for adaptability to growing conditions, especially in climate change. Despite the considerable part of the conducted researches on the development of technology of cultivation of winter forage cr

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Aarts, H. F. M., B. Habekotte, G. J. Hilhorst, G. J. Koskamp, F. C. Van Der Schans, and C. K. De Vries. "Efficient resource management in dairy farming on sandy soil." Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science 47, no. 2 (1999): 153–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.18174/njas.v47i2.473.

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Sandy soils in the Netherlands are mainly used for dairy farming. As a result of intensification of dairy farming in the recent past, valued functions of sandy regions now are threatened by high emissions of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) and by increased water consumption by forage crops. Improved utilization efficiency of resources is proposed as a strategy to realise environmental targets in an economically viable way. Experimental results of the prototype system 'De Marke' indicate that an average intensive commercial farm can halve inputs of fertilizers and feeds at least, without the ne

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Chataway, R. G., V. J. Doogan, and W. M. Strong. "A survey of dairy farmers' practices and attitudes towards some aspects of arable-land management in the Darling Downs and South Burnett regions of Queensland." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 43, no. 5 (2003): 449. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea01179.

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The Darling Downs and Southern Inland Burnett are important geographical subregions of the Queensland dairy industry. The system of dairy farming in these subregions is unique in Australia in that it is based on grazed annual forage crops rather than pastures. When these soils were first cultivated up to 110 years ago they were inherently fertile. However, erosion and fertility decline has reduced their productive capacity and there is a need for the adoption of farming practices that are less exploitative. In February 1997, a survey was conducted to determine dairy farmers' practices and atti

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