Increasing crop yields and
livestock feeding efficiency.
Not exact matches
«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.»
«We need a complete understanding of
feed efficiency, though, because aquatic species differ from
livestock in important ways that are not considered in
feed conversion ratios.»
«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.
On the right, parenthetical percentages are the food - out /
feed - in caloric conversion
efficiencies of individual
livestock categories.
One of the lectures was from a professor of agriculture,
livestock agriculture, a veterinarian at UC Davis on this
feed efficiency.
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.
The use of soybean meal in
livestock feed, poultry, and fish both replaces some grain in
feed and increases the
efficiency with which the remaining grain is converted into
livestock products.