Sentences with phrase «for feed efficiency»

With this information in hand, producers can select breeding stock that transmit desired genetic merit for feed efficiency, tenderness, marbling and black color.

Not exact matches

Some reasons for the fall include: the Federal Reserve lowering the Fed Funds rate, declining inflation, improved monetary efficiency, economic slack, the continued global demand for US assets, and relative stability in the US vs. other markets.

We are told that «lonely infants fed and cared for regularly and with sterile impersonal efficiency do not live into childhood».1 Growth to maturity consists in discovering what and whom we love and how we respond to the love of others.

These were selected for their positive traits for the dairy cow, such as fertility, shorter gestation and increased calving ease, and their positive traits for producing an efficient beef animal, such as health, growth rate, feed efficiency and carcase merit.

The reality is that multinationals are mining the land for a short - term gain, people are confining pigs and poultry in the ammonia of their own excrement in the name of efficiency, and others are exploiting vulnerable migrant workers to ensure there's enough chicken on the Coles rotisserie to feed the insatiable hunger of our convenience culture.

Pharmafill (TM) Rotary Turntables Manage Feeding, Transfer, Accumulation Wall, NJ: Automated, rotary turntables in the Pharmafill (TM) line from packaging machinery manufacturer Deitz Co., Wall, NJ (www.Deitzco.com), enable packaging engineers to feed, transfer and accumulate bottles or other containers for extra control over the filling and packaging processes and improved line efficiency while maximizing the speed and -LSB-...]

We've been monitoring feed efficiency in order to maximize nutrition for 50 years.

Feed efficiency is not a new concept for Agri - King.

We need to get a handle on that to really capture feed efficiency for the entire beef production system,» says Dan Shike, associate professor of beef cattle nutrition in the Department of Animal Sciences at U of I.

«Farmed seafood and livestock stack up differently using alternate feed efficiency measure: Study finds retention of protein and calories in feed similar for major aquaculture and livestock species.»

The project was supported by a USDA NIFA grant, and the study's authors include researchers from the National Program for Genetic Improvement of Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle, as well as associated graduate students and staff.

«Our study shows that Schizochytrium is a high quality candidate for complete substitution of fish oil in juvenile Nile tilapia feeds, providing an innovative means to formulate and optimize the composition of feed while simultaneously raising feed efficiency of tilapia aquaculture,» says Sarker, a research assistant professor in Dartmouth's Environmental Studies Program.

«China has much potential to improve its domestic milk and feed production efficiencies,» says Lin Ma, the paper's corresponding author and a professor at the Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The introduction of rapeseed - based animal feed into the diet of ruminants improves efficiency in the use of digestible organic matter by between 4.4 % and 10.1 % and cuts the fermentation of the diet by between 6.2 % and 11.8 %, without adversely affecting its digestibility for this reason.

Professor Martin A. J. Parry of the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) said: «Improving the efficiency of photosynthesis — the way crops turn carbon dioxide in our atmosphere into everything we can eat — may seem ambitious but for us it offers the best opportunity for producing the scale of change in crop yield that we need to feed a growing global population in a changing world climate.»

«The average efficiency of livestock converting plant feed to meat is less than 3 %, and as we eat more meat, more arable cultivation is turned over to producing feedstock for animals that provide meat for humans.

It rationally replaces the Protein Efficiency Ratio (PER), which considered only amino acid growth requirements for rats, whose growth rates were measured by test protein feed lots.

Despite the recent reduction of the Feed - In Tariff — the mechanism to encourage take up of solar as well as giving the solar industry a financial leg up, it is still a viable option for schools and should be seriously considered as part of a schools» overall energy efficiency and CO2 reduction aims.

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However, in 70/30 highway / city driving we averaged 24.4 MPG in a Santa Fe Sport AWD 2.0 T. (Hyundai has cut weight by switching to new, higher - strength steel and this engine is fed fuel by direct injection, for a bit more efficiency.)

For efficiency and performance, Porsche says, the naturally aspirated engine gets rigidly mounted rocker arms and a central oil feed for the first tiFor efficiency and performance, Porsche says, the naturally aspirated engine gets rigidly mounted rocker arms and a central oil feed for the first tifor the first time.

Force - feeding an engine may have its advantages in terms of fuel efficiency, but this is not a thing to take for granted nowadays.

Those feed a battery bank comprised of four six - watt L - 16 batteries — the same kind used in golf carts — which in turn are fed through a five - kilowatt inverter, turning the DC power of the batteries into the alternating current necessary to run power tools and a variety of appliances specially selected for their energy efficiency.

What We Like about It — The energy efficiency of the C3000 makes it an ideal solution for today's kitty feeding needs.

BRD is estimated to cost the beef industry nearly $ 1 billion in economic losses from death, reduced feed efficiency and increased treatment costs.1, 2 These losses make it worthwhile for producers to be prepared for M. bovis and help keep herds healthy.

Despite the efficiency and cost - savings of this highly profitable practice for companion and farmed animal (including fish) feed industries, safety and nutritional quality concerns continue to be issues that regulatory agencies (the FDA and USDA) are hard - pressed to monitor and rectify.

For example, if nuclear is providing 20 % of electric generation, it can be run at steady baseline, maximizing fuel efficiency, while all the other variable demand can be met with solar and wind based power that has been fed into storage systems during the peak periods.

One reason for the low carbon price in the EU ETS is that many European countries have other climate policies (carbon floor prices, feed - in tariffs to support renewables, energy efficiency policies, transport policies, etc) which are taking the load off the ETS.

Pyrolysis, Gasification and Hydro - Thermal Carbonization are known biofuel technologies, What is new are the concomitant benefits of biochars for Soil Carbon Sequestration; building soil biodiversity & nitrogen efficiency, for in situ remediation of toxic agents, and, as a feed supplement cutting the carbon foot print of livestock.

Bell, William and Foster, John (2012): Feed - in tariffs for promoting solar PV: progressing from dynamic to allocative efficiency.

The search has spanned the gamut from funding research, investing in expensive solutions like desalination plants, toying with the idea of recycling wastewater, imposing water - use restrictions, letting lawns go dry and experimenting with irrigation efficiency techniques for the crops that feed the country.

In particular, the high feed - in tariffs for solar photovoltaics can be up to ten times higher than those provided to wind and even higher than investments in efficiency, diverting money away from other policies where it would have been better employed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The unfavorable feed conversion efficiency for animal products is largely responsible for the relatively large water footprint of animal products compared to the crop products.

So decreasing the amount of methane they produce should improve feed conversion efficiency and so could be an improvement that pays for itself even without considering climate benefits.

Austria should further consider introducing a digression scheme that gradually lowers feed - in tariffs to provide an incentive for producers to improve efficiency.