Linking Livestock Production and Wild Biodiversity: Contribution of Pastoral Production Systems to the Habitat of Bird Priority Conservation Species

2021 ◽  
pp. 1321-1326
Author(s):  
Oscar Blumetto ◽  
Andrés Castagna
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Pastoral Production ◽  
Pastoral Production Systems

Estimation of tsetse challenge and its relationship with trypanosomosis incidence in cattle kept under pastoral production systems in Kenya

2008 ◽  
Vol 155 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 287-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Bett ◽  
P. Irungu ◽  
S.O. Nyamwaro ◽  
G. Murilla ◽  
P. Kitala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Pastoral Production ◽  
Pastoral Production Systems

Phosphorus leaching from pastures can be an environmental risk and even a significant fertiliser expense

2006 ◽  
pp. 293-296
Author(s):  
Matt R. Redding ◽  
A. Ghani ◽  
M. Kear ◽  
M. O'Connor ◽  
W. Catto
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Phosphorus Leaching ◽  
Silt Loam ◽  
Retention Capacity ◽  
P Loss ◽  
Reactive Phosphate Rock ◽  
Pastoral Production ◽  
Phosphorus Losses ◽  
Pastoral Production Systems

While it is true that leaching is usually not a strong pathway for phosphorus (P) loss under many systems, is it true for all? Two studies reported in this paper sought to establish if significant phosphorus leaching can occur under normal pastoral production systems. Undisturbed-core lysimeters collected from a Wharekohe silt loam from Northland were treated with fertiliser P (reactive phosphate rock and superphosphate) then leached from August to November, 2005. In a second study, soil profiles under pasture for sheep/beef and dairy production in the catchments of the Rotorua lakes were sampled to depths of 1.5 m (28 sites), and soil Olsen P and P retention capacity index were determined down these profiles. Phosphorus losses from the Wharekohe soil to 25 cm depth were up to 33% of the P applied (superphosphate applications of 50 and 100 kg P/ha). Some Rotorua soils displayed enriched P concentrations at depth (to 1.5 m), often coupled with moderate or low P sorption capacities. If connectivity exists between leaching pathways and surface water bodies these observations indicate that alternative management strategies need to be developed and adopted for soils that leach significant quantities of P. The Wharekohe silt loam is one such soil. Keywords: phosphorus, leaching

What’s beyond capitalist natures? The view from a camel’s back

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Model ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Pastoral Production ◽  
Pastoral Production Systems

The authors’ formulation ‘capitalist natures’ may be too quick to imply that the formal and/or real subsumption of all natures is in the process of being accomplished. I point toward liminal and dynamic cases, such as camels in pastoral production systems, to trouble the mental model of a spatialized ‘outside’ that is either simply colonized by or subsidizing capitalist relations.

scholarly journals Breeding lucerne for persistence

2012 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Bouton
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Marker ◽  
Complex Traits ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Forage Legume ◽  
Species Introduction ◽  
Local Varieties ◽  
Regulatory Issues ◽  
Pastoral Production ◽  
Pastoral Production Systems

Cultivated lucerne is the most widely grown forage legume in pastoral agriculture. Persistence is critical for most pastoral production systems and its definition includes concepts of productivity, but maintenance of adequate plant numbers is essential. There were three important eras in lucerne persistence breeding: species introduction leading to local varieties and land races (adaptation), development of multiple pest-resistant, autumn dormancy-specific cultivars, and introducing complex traits and the use of biotechnologies. Today’s persistent cultivar needs, at a minimum, adaptation, proper autumn dormancy, and targeted pest resistances. Adding complex, ‘persistence-limiting’ traits to these minimum base traits, such as tolerance to grazing, acid, aluminum-toxic soils, and drought, is successfully being achieved via traditional selection, but biotechnologies and inter-specific hybridisations are also being employed in some cases. The main issues around biotechnologies are public perception and regulatory issues which continue to hamper transgene deployment while genetic marker programs need to lower costs and concentrate on successful application. There is not one persistent ‘ideotype’ that will fill all situations, but specific ones need to be developed and targeted for geographies such as the subtropics. Finally, breeders need to understand what persistence traits lucerne producers are willing to pay a premium to obtain.

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