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… had their cows in loose housing. Because of EU-legislation concerning all organic production no farms are allowed to build tie stalls any more and after 2010 all organic dairy cows are supposed to live in loose-housing systems. The aim of the thesis was mainly to find out the …
… farmers in western Sweden have been interviewed about their farms, both organic and conventional. They produce milk with different intensity, defined as the amount of milk delivered (sold) per hectare of arable land. The farms were divided in the following groups based on the …
… government has proposed that 20 % of the cultivated land in Sweden should be organic by the year 2010 (The Swedish Board of Agriculture, 2008). In addition to this the production of organic food like milk, meat and egg should increase considerably. To reach the government’s goal …
… herds. Heifers were also found to live longer in loose housing barns and in organic systems. Heifers born or having their first calf during summer or autumn were more likely to live longer than cows born or having their first calf during winter or spring.
… in the area, and the long transport of the feeds requires a lot of energy. The organic dairy production in Sweden is, with the highest probability going to be forced to use 100 % organic feed to the cows in the year 2005, due to new EU-rules. These are some of the causes why …
… Sweden would decrease the transportations and the cutting of rainforest. For organic beef producers the possibility to produce home-grown protein feeds is important since organic protein feeds can be difficult to obtain in another way. The organic beef production has increased …
en fältstudie
… from seven farms in Skaraborg in Sweden. Four of the investigated farms had an organic production system (KRAV). At the farm visits information concerning the feeding of the cows and their milk production was gathered. Furthermore urine samples were collected from 10 % of the …
… would decrease the dependency on imported soybean and meet thedemand for organically grown feedstuff from ecological dairy farmers. Field bean (Viciafaba), peas (Pisum sativum) and sweet lupin (Lupinus angustifolius) are good alternatives tosoybean, but contain anti-nutritional …
en projektanalys utifrån ett företagsekonomiskt perspektiv
… 1600 hectare of farmland and a dairy plant. Nearly half of the farmland is organicly cultivated. The substrates for the digester are produced at Wapnö and are calculated to 30 000 ton of liquid manure, 300 ton of ley crops and 70 ton of milk. The method in this study is based on …
… function; to enable them to provide more qualified advice to conventional and organic milk producers who sustain larger herds. The result of this effort was aimed at the production of healthier calves and heifers. A literature review has been carried out based on both national …
… on a higher dry-matter concentration but lower concentrations of ammonia and organic acids in the short compared to the long silage. However, the older heifers did not differ in DM intake between the two silages. The behavioural analysis showed that the heifers spent …
… 1000 kg energy corrected milk per cow and year between conventional and organic cows that are fed a lower versus a higher share of forage. If the cow shall be able to eat the same amount of energy from forage as from grain or concentrate the eating- and rumination time gets …
