Archive for September, 2011
International Greenhouse Gas Research Fund Opens
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011Agriculture Minister David Carter announced the NZ$25 million Fund for Global Partnerships in Livestock Emissions Research at the inaugural ministerial meeting of the Global Research Alliance in Rome in June.
The Fund draws on the NZ$45 million that the New Zealand Government committed to the Alliance in 2009. [...]Leia mais
Livestock Farming Linked To Respiratory Illness
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011THE NETHERLANDS – Emissions from livestock farms cause asthma and COPD patients living nearby to experience more exacerbations, according to research presented today at the European Respiratory Society’s Annual Congress in Amsterdam.
Also, chances of contracting Q fever from nearby sheep and goat farms increased with the [...]Leia mais
Earth’s Acidity Rising — Major Causes and Shifting Trends Examined to Guide Future Mitigation Efforts
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011Human use of Earth’s natural resources is making the air, oceans, freshwaters, and soils more acidic, according to a U.S. Geological Survey – University of Virginia study available online in the journal, Applied Geochemistry.
This comprehensive review, the first on this topic to date, found the mining and burning [...]Leia mais
US pork producers use six time more antibiotics than Danish
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011The USA uses about six times more antibiotics than Denmark to produce about 1 kg of meat, a Danish food official said in a presentation in Chicago, Illinois, earlier this week.
Press agency Bloomberg quotes Henrik Caspar Wegener, director of the National Food Institute in Denmark, who spoke earlier [...]Leia mais
U.S. must commit to sustainability to overcome mounting economic and ecological strains
Thursday, September 15th, 2011Washington, D.C. — Entire sets of assumptions, beliefs, and practices will need to be overturned if the United States is to build a sustainable economy in the decades ahead, according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute, Creating Sustainable Prosperity in the United States: The Need [...]
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Simple Phosphorus Test Yields Savings for New York Farmer
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011John Maxwell, a Geneseo, N.Y., dairy farmer, used to apply more than 60 pounds of phosphorus per acre when planting his 250 acres of corn. But after participating in a
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) -funded, statewide research project aimed at helping growers fine-tune their use of [...]Leia mais
Feeding Natural Plant Extracts To Reduce Odour & Costs
Thursday, September 8th, 2011The scientists reported at the 242nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
J. Mark Powell, Ph.D., described the results of three studies undertaken to determine how adding plant substances called “tannins” to cow feed affects the emission of ammonia from dairy barn floors and farm fields [...]Leia mais
Over one in three dairy farmers planning to invest in renewable energy
Thursday, September 8th, 2011Research conducted by Barclays reveals that more than one in three (37 per cent) dairy farmers in England and Wales are planning to invest in renewable energy projects, with the majority doing so in the next year.
The dominant form of energy generation being planned on dairy farms is [...]
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FUW condems ‘gold plating’ on proposals to extend water buffer zones
Thursday, September 8th, 2011The Farmers’ Union of Wales has launched a scathing attack on Welsh Government proposals to “gold plate” a new Good Agricultural Environmental Condition (GAEC) on buffer strips next to water courses introduced as part of the Common Agricultural Policy Health Check agreement in 2008.
The FUW believe that [...]Leia mais