Stud Managers' Handbook, Vol. 19

ISBN-13: 9780367304508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 451 str.

Frank H. Baker; Mason Miller

Opis

This book includes more than 200 technical papers, sponsored by Winrock International. It presents advanced technology in a problem-oriented form readily accessible to livestock producers, operators of family farms, managers of agribusinesses, scholars, and students of animal agriculture.

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Preface -- Global and National Issues -- Applying Agricultural Science and Technology to World Hunger Problems -- Future Agricultural Policy Considerations that will Influence Livestock Producers -- Effective Ways for Livestock Producers to Influence the Policymaking Process: Practical Politics -- Facing the Facts in Getting Started as a Livestock Producer -- Jobs in the Horse Industry -- Economic Outlook for the Livestock Industry -- Energy Sources and Animal Wastes -- Photovoltaic Solar Power for Small Farm and Ranch Use -- Anaerobic Digestion of Beef and Dairy Manure for Energy and Feed Production -- Utilization of Cattle Manure for Fertilizer -- Information Channels and Institutional Structures -- Finding and Using Problem-Solving Technology and Information in Livestock Production -- Integrated Management: The Delivery Method for the Future -- The University Farm: What is Its Role in Animal Agriculture and How Do We Support It? -- Activities and Safety for Horse Owners -- Activities for the Pleasure-Horse Owners -- Distance Riding for You and Your Horse -- Protecting the Horseman -- Risk Management in A Riding Instruction Program -- New Frontiers in Biology -- Genetic Engineering and Commercial Livestock Production -- The Potential of in Vitro Fertilization to the Livestock Industry -- Embryo Transfer, Microsurgery, and Frozen Embryo Banks in the Cattle Industry -- Genetic Engineering of Animal Vaccines -- Genetics -- Genetic Improvement in Horses: Principles and Methods, Part 1 -- Genetic Improvement in Horses: Inbreeding and its Consequences, Part 2 -- Genetic Improvement in Horses: Linebreeding and Outcrossing, Part 3 -- Genetic Improvement in Horses: Breeding Winners in Cutting and Reining, Part 4 -- Horse Breeding Programs -- The Quarter Horse: Then and Now -- Management and Reproduction -- Pasture Breeding -- "How Old is He?" -- Considerations in Managing the Breeding Stallion -- Broodmare Management: Prior to, During, and After Foaling, Part 1 -- Broodmare Management: Prior to, During, and After Foaling, Part 2 -- Foal Health and Management -- Foaling -- Managing the Newborn Foal -- Infectious Diseases of Newborn and Young Foals -- Noninfectious Conditions in the Newborn and Young Foals -- Nutrition and Feeding -- These Horses Got Sick Because of What they Ate -- Common Sense and Uncommon Science in Horse Feeding -- General Health and Management -- The Summer Itch -- The Treatment of Navicular Disease -- Application of Acupuncture in Treatment of Animal Infertility -- Acupuncture in Treatment of Impaction -- Acupuncture in Treatment of Sprain -- Equine Immunization -- Conformation and Training -- Handsome Is . . . Form and Function in the Performance Horse -- Progressive Precision Training: The Most Horse -- Judging Hunters, Jumpers, and Hunt Seat Equitation -- Ground Training and Breaking the Horse to Ride and(or) Drive -- Hoof Care and Evaluating the Farrier -- Training the Western Horse and the English Horse -- Showing and Selling -- Grooming Show and Sale Horses -- Sales Preparation of Yearlings: European Style -- Types of Advertising in Marketing Horses -- Effective Marketing Methods for Horses -- U.S. Importation and Exportation of Horses: Methods and Requirements -- Facilities and Behavior -- Small-Scale Farm Design for the Horse Breeder -- Controlled Grazing and Power Fence® -- Livestock Behavior and Psychology as Related to Handling and Welfare -- Horse Sense: What Keeps Horses From Betting on People? -- Computer Technology and Other Topics -- Microcomputer Usage in Agriculture -- Computerized Records and Decision Making -- Agnet and Other Computer Information Sources -- Computers in the Horse Industry -- Nontraditional "Conditioning" -- Advances in Equine Health -- A Farmer's Observations of Washington, D.C. -- Other Winrock International Studies Published by Westview Press -- Other Books of Interest from Winrock International