This research describes a nanocomposite coating consisting of polytyramine (PTy) and graphene oxide nanosheets@copper nanoparticles (GO@CuNPs) which is synthesized through one-step electropolymerization mode on the surface of a steel wire. The performance of the PTy/GO@CuNPs nanocomposite was...

Two new studies from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), published in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, describe findings from...

Subclinical mastitis (SCM) particularly affects milk yield, quality and health of lactating animals. It is an apparently invisible problem that silently leads to enormous financial damage to the whole dairy industry. It is evident from previous studies that faulty animal husbandry practices...

17 - 21 November 2023 - Kruger Park

Forming an end of life hospice/Pawspice service.

Intensive greenhouse vegetable production is often associated with a decline of crop productivity due to the increase of soil salinity and/or a reduction of biological fertility. The aim of the current work was to assess the effects of three organic fertilizers on morpho-physiological and agronomic...

Improving soil organic carbon (SOC) has been considered as a "win-win way" for ensuring high crop productivity and mitigating chemical N input. Improving SOC can achieve higher wheat yield and simultaneously improve nitrogen (N) productivity (defined as kg grain produced per kg total N input from...

Tedera is a valuable high-quality forage for sheep during summer-autumn. There is evidence that prior grazing experience of novel forages influences preference and haymaking of tedera improves preference by goats. In the first experiment, it was hypothesised that the voluntary feed intake (VFI) of...

An intensive processing mechanism that combined impact and shredding was applied to create physical disruption of whole-plant corn as a means to increase in situ dry matter (DM) digestion in lactating dairy cows. A ratio of treatment leachate conductivity relative to that of an ultimately processed...

The sustainability of dairying has been questioned, yet cattle exploit non-food resources (especially forages) and provide key nutrients for consumers' health. This study, using different forage types, considered milk's nutritional quality, focusing on fatty acid profiles alongside methane...