Preventing negative consequences of intensive livestock production in the Baltic Sea Region
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- Environmental risks from large-scale livestock production in the BSR
- Preventing the negative consequences of intensive livestock production
- Intensive livestock industry versus corporate social responsibility
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16.10.2020
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The addition of phytase enzyme to pig feed to improve uptake of phosphorus is today standard procedure in most pig production. Asignificant part of phosphate in grains and seeds is in ?phytate?, theplant?s natural phosphorus storage molecule, which is not digestible fornon-ruminants (pigs, chickens, ...
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The European Commission has published its evaluation of the Industrial Emissions Directive which regulates over 50 000 installations in Europe, including food and dairy processing, waste treatment and large poultry and pig farms (replacing several Directives including IPPC).
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Twelve pharmaceuticals were detected in pig manure and slaughterhouse sludge in Catalunya, Spain. All twelve were found in manure, at concentrations up to 6600 ?g/kg in the solid fraction (for doxycycline, a tetracycline antibiotic used to treat pneumonia, Lyme disease, cholera), and most were found ...
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14.10.2020
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Research or review papers are invited for a special issue of the journal Agronomy on sustainable use of phosphorus in agriculture: N and P inmanure and crop requirements, soil-crop systems, from feed through livestock to manure nutrient mass balances and efficiencies, runoff and erosion, policies and ...
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Organised in the framework of the 11th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBR), with SuMaNu and BSAG, this workshop will discuss input to the HELCOM Regional Nutrient Recycling Strategy to be adopted in 2021, including eutrophication mitigation, manure management, Circular ...
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