Wagyu Beef Keeps Eye On Expansion

Wagyu Beef Keeps Eye On Expansion
20 June 2013


As demand for high quality beef continues to grow across Japan and Asia, the Wagyu beef industry is progressing to meet market opportunities.
This is not easy for a breed only produced in large volumes in Australia and the United States outside of its native Japan. Therefore, artificial insemination and embryo transfer play vital roles in

Ventajas y desventajas de los métodos de castración

ARTÍCULO TÉNICO.- Por Méd. Vet. Javier Confalonieri.- La cría en la explotación bovina tiene como principal objetivo obtener la mayor cantidad de terneros nacidos y destetados con el mejor peso y estado, mediante un adecuado manejo reproductivo y sanitario. En un sistema productivo de cría, un destete bien logrado, no constituye un epílogo sino el puente hacia la continuidad de una producción

Deep-sea Fishing in Europe: High Environmental Costs, Minimal Economic Dependence

The scale of economic dependence on deep-sea fisheries in Europe is low, according to new information presented by the European Commission during a Fisheries Committee debate in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Oceana values the contribution from the Commission, which further justifies measures that have been proposed for improving the sustainability of deep-sea fisheries in the North-East

The farm tech we take for granted?

Last week I got the chance for an early look at the new Genesis T8 tractor that we showed Farm Industry Newsreaders in depth in an online gallery. Last weekend I was explaining a bit of farm tech to my wife and it occurred to me that I just assume these days that some tech has to be there on a new piece of equipment.

The tech I'm thinking about is that end-row management system - they go by

La Agroecología como alternativa al paradigma de la agricultura convencional

Carlos Molina Medrano

Rebelión



Introducción
La agricultura mundial pasa por una crisis sin precedentes caracterizada por niveles récord de pobreza rural, hambre, migración, degradación ambiental; intensificada por los cambios climáticos y las crisis energética y financiera. Asegurar el alimento ya no es cuestión de dinero o de capacidad para producirlo, sino un problema estructural mucho

Cryosalus patenta un sistema que conserva la fruta hasta dos años

Este sistema pionero permite recuperar la textura, el sabor, el aspecto y el aroma originales de una pieza de fruta tras dos años de su recogida del árbol.



Esto es lo que ha hecho posible el innovador sistema español ?Hibernación? patentado por Cryosalus System, que consigue conservar las cualidades organolépticas de la fruta, manteniendo el nivel bacteriológico que tenía antes de su

Plows and Pitchforks # 8

Sustainability is the new ‘cool.’



June 29, 2013



By Matt Bernau



I was overcome by an urgent need to crawl inside my computer screen and yell at the author of the misguided opinions I was reading. Some white-paper study claimed that corn production is more ‘sustainable’ than in the past because corn producers are raising more bushels from less land.



The amount of land used to