52 Ebooks par Board on Agriculture
Board on Agriculture & Committee to Ensure Safe Food from Production to Consumption: Ensuring Safe Food
How safe is our food supply? Each year the media report what appears to be growing concern related to illness caused by the food consumed by Americans. These food borne illnesses are caused by pathog …
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€49.82
Board on Agriculture & Dale R. McCullough: Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area
Brucellosis, a bacterial disease, was first noted in the Greater Yellowstone Area in 1917 and has been a chronic presence there since then. This book reviews existing scientific knowledge regarding b …
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€46.00
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Animal Nutrition: Role of Chromium in Animal Nutrition
The American feed industry manufactures tons of dietary supplements and additives each year for inclusion in the diets of food-producing animals. Some scientists have suggested that chromium should b …
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€36.01
Board on Agriculture & National Research Council: Wood in Our Future: The Role of Life-Cycle Analysis
The United States produces 25% of the world’s wood output, and wood supports a major segment of the U.S. industrial base. Trees provide fiber, resins, oils, pulp, food, paper, pharmaceuticals, fuel, …
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€51.08
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Drug Use in Food Animals: Use of Drugs in Food Animals
The use of drugs in food animal production has resulted in benefits throughout the food industry; however, their use has also raised public health safety concerns.The Use of Drugs in Food Animals pro …
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€60.98
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Pest and Pathogen Control Through Management of Biological Control Agents and Enhanced Cycles and Natural Processes: Ecologically Based Pest Management
Widespread use of broad-spectrum chemical pesticides has revolutionized pest management. But there is growing concern about environmental contamination and human health risksand continuing frustratio …
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€56.09
Board on Agriculture & Committee on the Future of the Colleges of Agriculture in the Land Grant University System: Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities
Since their inception in 1862, the U.S. land grant colleges have evolved to become the training ground for the nation’s and the world’s agriculturists. In this book, the committee examines the future …
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€45.97
Board on Agriculture & Committee on the Future of the Colleges of Agriculture in the Land Grant System: Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities
Although few Americans work as farmers these days, agriculture on the whole remains economically importantplaying a key role in such contemporary issues as consumer health and nutrition, worker safet …
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€50.08
Board on Agriculture & National Research Council: Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century
Sensors, satellite photography, and multispectral imaging are associated with futuristic space and communications science. Increasingly, however, they are considered part of the future of agriculture …
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€3.84
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Pest and Pathogen Control Through Management of Biological Control Agents and Enhanced Cycles and Natural Processes: Ecologically Based Pest Management
Widespread use of broad-spectrum chemical pesticides has revolutionized pest management. But there is growing concern about environmental contamination and human health risksand continuing frustratio …
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€39.81
Board on Agriculture & National Research Council: Wood in Our Future: The Role of Life-Cycle Analysis
The United States produces 25% of the world’s wood output, and wood supports a major segment of the U.S. industrial base. Trees provide fiber, resins, oils, pulp, food, paper, pharmaceuticals, fuel, …
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€36.60
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Animal Nutrition: Role of Chromium in Animal Nutrition
The American feed industry manufactures tons of dietary supplements and additives each year for inclusion in the diets of food-producing animals. Some scientists have suggested that chromium should b …
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€25.13
Board on Agriculture & Board on Biology: Designing an Agricultural Genome Program
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€14.78
Board on Agriculture & National Research Council: Agriculture’s Role in K-12 Education
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€34.65
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Prospects and Opportunities for Sustainable Management of America’s Nonfederal Forests: Forested Landscapes in Perspective
The federal role in the management of nonfederal U.S. forests was once relatively simple: to assist in the prevention and control of wildfires. The administrative structure to carry out this role was …
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€42.15
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Drug Use in Food Animals: Use of Drugs in Food Animals
The use of drugs in food animal production has resulted in benefits throughout the food industry; however, their use has also raised public health safety concerns.The Use of Drugs in Food Animals pro …
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€49.13
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Conservation Needs and Opportunities: Soil Conservation
This new volume is the first independent analysis of an important national data base, the National Resources Inventory. It cites potential uses of the NRI in controlling soil erosion; determining lan …
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€14.73
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Technological Options to Improve the Nutritional Attributes of Animal Products: Designing Foods
This lively book examines recent trends in animal product consumption and diet; reviews industry efforts, policies, and programs aimed at improving the nutritional attributes of animal products; and …
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€29.60
Board on Agriculture & National Research Council: Investing in Research
This book provides an analysis of funding for agricultural research in the United States and presents a proposal to strengthen this system. Its premise is that a judicious but substantial increase in …
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€19.98
Board on Agriculture & Committee on the Future of the Colleges of Agriculture in the Land Grant System: Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities
Although few Americans work as farmers these days, agriculture on the whole remains economically importantplaying a key role in such contemporary issues as consumer health and nutrition, worker safet …
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€34.65
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Animal Nutrition: Underutilized Resources as Animal Feedstuffs
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€66.93
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives: Forest Trees
News reports concerning decline of the world’s forests are becoming sadly familiar. Most losses are measured in square kilometers, but a more profound loss cannot be measured. As forests disappear, s …
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€27.61
Board on Agriculture & Dale R. McCullough: Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area
Brucellosis, a bacterial disease, was first noted in the Greater Yellowstone Area in 1917 and has been a chronic presence there since then. This book reviews existing scientific knowledge regarding b …
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€34.04
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Strategies for the Management of Pesticide Resistant Pest Populations: Pesticide Resistance
Based on a symposium sponsored by the Board on Agriculture, this comprehensive book explores the problem of pesticide resistance; suggests new approaches to monitor, control, or prevent resistance; a …
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€118.38
Board on Agriculture & National Research Council: Metabolic Modifiers
In the past decade, animal scientists have learned that administering recombinantly derived somatotropin (growth hormone) to cows improves milk production and that giving beta-adrenergic agonists to …
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€37.61
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives: Livestock
Agricultural techniques used to increase production of cattle, sheep, and other major species have actually threatened the future genetic diversity of livestock populations, particularly in the Third …
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€46.06
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Biosciences: New Directions for Biosciences Research in Agriculture
Authored by an integrated committee of plant and animal scientists, this review of newer molecular genetic techniques and traditional research methods is presented as a compilation of high-reward opp …
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€37.01
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Rangeland Classification: Rangeland Health
Rangelands comprise between 40 and 50 percent of all U.S. land and serve the nation both as productive areas for wildlife, recreational use, and livestock grazing and as watersheds. The health and ma …
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€54.18
Board on Agriculture & Committee on the Role of Alternative Farming Methods in Modern Production Agriculture: Alternative Agriculture
More and more farmers are adopting a diverse range of alternative practices designed to reduce dependence on synthetic chemical pesticides, fertilizers, and antibiotics; cut costs; increase profits; …
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€34.49
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Animal Nutrition: Selenium in Nutrition,
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€49.09
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Animal Nutrition: Ruminant Nitrogen Usage
This book brings together the latest research on protein absorption by ruminants and takes a look at the calculation of optimum nutrient requirements, including bacterial digestion, in the calculatio …
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€44.21
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Conservation Needs and Opportunities: Soil Conservation
Written by the foremost authorities in the field, this volume brings together the technical papers from which Volume 1 is drawn. The 10 papers and discussion from a National Research Council symposiu …
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€24.89
Board on Agriculture & National Research Council: Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education in the Field
Interest is growing in sustainable agriculture, which involves the use of productive and profitable farming practices that take advantage of natural biological processes to conserve resources, reduce …
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€109.58
Board on Agriculture & National Research Council: Genetic Engineering of Plants
"The book…is, in fact, a short text on the many practical problems…associated with translating the explosion in basic biotechnological research into the next Green Revolution, " explain …
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€12.78
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives: U.S. National Plant Germplasm System
In the United States, the critical task of preserving our plant genetic resources is the responsibility of the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS).NPGS undergoes a thorough analysis in this book, …
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€19.71
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Agricultural Education in Secondary Schools: Understanding Agriculture
This book responds to the widespread recognition among experts that our educational system needs to change in order to provide the skills and knowledge necessary to ensure the future vitality of U.S. …
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€30.66
Board on Agriculture & National Research Council: Agriculture and the Undergraduate
This book presents efforts to chart the comprehensive changes needed to meet the challenges of undergraduate professional education in agriculture. The United States needs to invest in the futurein h …
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€32.34
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Long-Range Soil and Water Conservation Policy: Soil and Water Quality
How can the United States meet demands for agricultural production while solving the broader range of environmental problems attributed to farming practices? National policymakers who try to answer t …
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€59.13
Board on Agriculture & National Research Council: Investing in the National Research Initiative
The Board on Agriculture (BA), in this self-initiated study, reaffirms recommendations it made for the U.S. Department of Agriculture supported competitive grants program in its 1989 report Investing …
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€19.80
Board on Agriculture & Board on Science and Technology for International Development: Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics
Rainforests are rapidly being cleared in the humid tropics to keep pace with food demands, economic needs, and population growth. Without proper management, these forests and other natural resources …
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€54.63
Board on Agriculture & Committee on the Future of the Colleges of Agriculture in the Land Grant University System: Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities
Since their inception in 1862, the U.S. land grant colleges have evolved to become the training ground for the nation’s and the world’s agriculturists. In this book, the committee examines the future …
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€34.74
Board on Agriculture & Committee to Ensure Safe Food from Production to Consumption: Ensuring Safe Food
How safe is our food supply? Each year the media report what appears to be growing concern related to illness caused by the food consumed by Americans. These food borne illnesses are caused by pathog …
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€34.69
Assembly of Life Sciences & Board on Agriculture: Fat Content and Composition of Animal Products
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€64.55
Board on Agriculture & Board on Science and Technology for International Development: Toward Sustainability
Toward Sustainability recommends a design for a new Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) for the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID). Currently, eight CRSPs operate under legisla …
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€19.29
Board on Agriculture & National Research Council: Pesticides and Groundwater Quality
Pesticides in groundwater can contaminate drinking water and threaten the health of communities. How does this contamination occur and what should be done about this pressing problem? This new book u …
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€40.46
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Animal Nutrition: Vitamin Tolerance of Animals
Many feedstuffs and forages do not provide the dietary vitamins necessary for optimum growth and development, making supplementation necessary. This volume offers a practical, well-organized guide to …
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€34.73
Board on Agriculture & Committee on a National Strategy for Biotechnology in Agriculture: Agricultural Biotechnology
Biotechnology offers tremendous potential for improving crop production, animal agriculture, and bioprocessing. It can provide scientists with new ways to develop higher-yielding and more nutritious …
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€60.58
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives: Managing Global Genetic Resources
This anchor volume to the series Managing Global Genetic Resources examines the structure that underlies efforts to preserve genetic material, including the worldwide network of genetic collections; …
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€117.51
Board on Agriculture & Committee on Animal Nutrition: Predicting Feed Intake of Food-Producing Animals
How much do animals eat? Why do eating patterns change? How do physiological, dietary, and environmental factors affect feed intake? This volume, a comprehensive overview of the latest animal feed in …
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€31.38
