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Prairie Swine Centre is an affiliate of the University of Saskatchewan
Prairie Swine Centre is grateful for the assistance of the George Morris Centre in developing the economics portion of Pork Insight.
Financial support for the Enterprise Model Project and Pork Insight has been provided by:
Phytonutrients in citrus fruit peel meal and nutritional implication for livestock production
Posted in: Production by admin on January 1, 2007 | No Comments
Recycling of livestock manure in a whole-farm perspective
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This paper argues that a whole farm
perspective taking side-effects and on-farm interactions
into account is needed to determine the cost effectiveness
of mitigation strategies for livestock manure management. Agricultural land (mainly on arable farms)
also receives other types of organic waste, such as sewage
sludge or municipal composts, but they are not considered
here where the focus is on the internal flows of nutrients
on livestock farms as influenced by treatment strategies
and management. It was concluded that it is important to consider pollution control strategies
for a farm in the framework of local and regional
pollution control planning. Investments in environmental
technology should be made where the impact on air
and water quality is most required. Insofar as intensification
of livestock production increases pollution within
an area, the lower production costs may facilitate the
concomitant implementation of environmental technologies,
although Government intervention (e.g., subsidies
to encourage change or stricter regulations) may be
required.
Degree of Phosphorus Saturation in Manitoba Soils
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This study was funded by the Canadian Fertilizer Institute and ARDI and is ongoing. One of the things that we are exploring in this study is to compare simple soil test P with the newly formulated degree of phosphorus saturation (DPS) as measures of risk of P loss in runoff from Manitoba soils. Previous studies have shown that the DPS is superior to soil test in measuring the risk of P loss from different soils. However, our preliminary results have shown that for Manitoba soils this may not be so. We have so far obtained better relationships between the amount of P loss in runoff and soil test P compared to DPS. Therefore, further studies will be needed to refine the DPS of Manitoba soils, especially in soils with a history of manure application. The advantage of DPS (over simple soil test P) is that it can be used to define objectively a threshold beyond which the application of phosphorus to soils will not be advisable if the loss of P is to be minimized. Also the runoff studies that we have carried out so far have been in the laboratory using rainfall simulation. We will like to carry out similar studies in the field using rainfall simulation on representative Manitoba soils.
Oil cakes and their biotechnological applications – A review
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Crop Productivity and Economics during the Transition to Alternative Cropping Systems
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