Nutritive evaluation of tropical tree leaves for pigs. Flemingia (Flemingia macrophylla)

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Formula-Derived versus Observed Market Prices: An Application for Segregated Early Weaned Pigs

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The nutritive value of ensiled cassava leaves for young Mong Cai pigs fed high levels of protein

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Diet Manipulation to Reduce Nutrient Content in Swine Manure

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Nutrient management is becoming increasingly important for sustainability of the swine industry. Diet manipulation to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus content will be discussed. For example, effects of particle size, dietary supplement enzymes, dietary protein and fermentable fibre, and dietary phosphorus content on nitrogen or phosphorus content of feces and urine were determined in performance or metabolism studies. Together, the results indicate that nitrogen and phosphorus excretion patterns can indeed be altered by diet manipulation.

Economics of Variable Swine Growth

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In vitro estimates of nitrogen digestibility for pigs and water-soluble nitrogen are correlated in tropical forage feeds

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Dietary Protein and Carbohydrates on Internal Nitrogen Flow and Excretion Patterns in Growing Pigs

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Strategic Positioning Under Agricultural Structural Change: A Critique of Long Jump Co-operative Ventures

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Structural change is a disruptive process. Whether you are in the steel industry in the 1970’s or production agriculture in the 1990’s the effects are extremely unsettling (Rose and Thomas, 2000; CP, 2000). Producers are being forced to either exit the industry or adopt new business models, but to accomplish this they are faced with the difficult task of strategically repositioning themselves. Just in the state of Illinois, for example, there are currently forty value added processing business plans in development (Saputo, 2000). These long jump ventures into processing are risky through and raise important fundamental questions about how producers select appropriate strategies; the subject of this manuscript.
Specifically, this manuscript addresses three aspects of the strategy process. The first is whether long jump type ventures such as hog slaughter or ethanol production are strategically sound. The second aspect is a discussion of how firms develop sound strategy. Third, using this understanding of strategy, the paper offers relationship management and service innovation as an alternative to long jump brick and mortar investments for creating value. Finally, a case study of the Wairarapa Lamb Cooperative demonstrates an application of relationship management.

An approach to ensiling conditions for preservation of cassava foliage in Cambodia

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COMMISSIONING LIVESTOCK BUILDINGS: THE NEEDS AND CHALLENGES

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