Husbandry crop production

To create a harmonious balance between crop production and animal husbandry. 

The questions for research workers may thus vary widely but, in principle, will be quite different for organically-grown crops. Most of the chemical sprays are not permitted, so other remedies have to be found. This may mean that the problems for applied research are different and will often relate to whole husbandry systems and not just to specific practices. However, this is not confined to applied research. Interactions between plants and other organisms may need to be understood at a quite fundamental level, posing questions that simply would not arise in conventional crop production. 

Organic crop production Organic animal husbandry Total farms Veneto... 

Sustainable production of oils and fats starts from sustainable crop plantations and livestock husbandry. Based on Good International Industry Practice (GIIP) as technical reference, Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Guidelines for crop plantation and crop production regulate environmental... 

Jim Lockhart and Toity Wiseman published their first edition of Crop Husbandry in 1966. At the time there were many changes taking place in arable production and yields were increasing rapidly. Concerns in crop production were veiy different from those found today. Now, over 47 years later, we have produced the ninth editiom It is fitting with the passing away of Jim Lockhart to look at how crop production changed during his lifetime. 

Describe (where possible) the production system components (e.g. crop or livestock health management practices, soil fertilisation methods, crop rotation designs, livestock feeding and husbandry regimes, crop varieties/livestock breeds used) responsible for differences in food quality and safety between production systems ... 

On the farm, a crop can be labeled as organic if it is produced on land where no prohibited substances have been applied for a minimum of three years prior to harvest. Animal products labeled as organic must come from livestock that have been fed organic feed, raised using humane animal husbandry systems, and that have not be treated with synthetic medications, except under very limited conditions set forth in the national list. 

Most dynamic factors that affect fruit quality are agronomic practices that can be changed by farmers over relatively short time spans. They are mainly related to fertility management and crop protection and other husbandry interventions and inputs such as pesticides, fertilisers, herbicides, thinning agents and so on. The permitted tools for these activities, however, differ greatly between conventional and organic fruit production. The consequences... 

One of the essential preconditions for the development of agricultural production is an availability of sufficient quantity of water of the appropriate quality for plant and animal husbandry. An adequate supply of good quality water is of essential importance for improvement of milk yielding capacity of cows, beef production and also for raising the yields per hectare of crops, vegetables and other types of products. 

A European Community Council Regulation (No. 315/93) defines a food contaminant as any substance not intentionally added to food which is present in such food as a result of the production (including operations carried out in crop husbandry, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine), manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, packaging, transport or holding of such food, or as a result of environmental contamination. Extraneous matter, such as, for example, insect fragments, animal hair, etc. is not covered by this definition. ... 

Grain maize grows well in many southern countries in Europe, especially in France and Italy. Yields are very high averaging between 8 and 9t/ha of grain. With this yield, grain maize is the third most importatrt cereal in the EU after wheat and barley. Most of the maize crop is used for animal feed with a smaller amount milled for industrial use (starch) and for human consumption. There is an increasing market for maize for production of bioethanol. For crop husbandry see Chapter 18. 

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