Take Home Message: Agricultural green house gas emissions can be reduced by 5% by altering management, particularly by the wider use of genetic improvement in the beef and dairy industries.
There are a range of cost-effective options – either nil or low cost – for the UK livestock sector that will abate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. [...]
Take Home Message: The inclusion of 2% fish oil in the diet of steers will reduce methane output by approximately 25%, but will also reduce intake by 10%.
Feeding fish oil to beef steers can reduce the amount of methane they produce – good news for the environment. But not so good, however, is an [...]
Take Home Message: Focus on improving nutrition and heat detection in dairy and beef herds as these account for 60% of the failure in reproductive performance.
Good reproductive performance can be achieved in both dairy and beef herds, even where herd size and production levels have been increased, with the nutritional management, heat detection levels and [...]
Progeny of both the Charolais and Limousin breed perform similarly during the finishing period, although Limousin progeny have a higher dressing proportion, a higher fat cover and produced larger eye muscles than Charolais progeny.
Offering finishing beef cattle legume/cereal wholecrop silages had no effect on fatty acid composition or meat quality when compared with meat from cattle finished on a grass silage-based ration.
Legume/cereal wholecrop silages do not offer a suitable alternative to high quality grass silage for finishing beef cattle.
The use of selenium-enriched fertilisers can improve and maintain a high selenium (Se) status in beef herds managed over several years on locally produced feedstuffs during successive outdoors and indoors seasons.
Finishing Holstein bulls on rations comprising different levels of crude protein had no effect on animal performance.
Limousin cross cattle had higher carcass gains and produced heavier, better conformed carcases in trials, compared to Aberdeen Angus cross (AAx) cattle, when fed on a grass silage and barley-based ration.
A scanning technique used to assess sheep carcasses could be used to accurately quantify the weights of fat, muscle and bone of primal beef joints.
