Incorporating livestock into intensive agricultural systems to improve soil fertility, control weeds, and create a more diversified and productive farming system.
Livestock production systems: Understanding the different production systems like extensive, intensive, mixed, and their benefits and challenges.
Ruminant nutrition and feeding: Understanding the nutritional needs of ruminant animals, feed types, and how to balance diets for optimal production.
Non-ruminant nutrition and feeding: Understanding the nutritional needs of non-ruminant animals, feed types, and how to balance diets for optimal production.
Livestock breeding and genetics: Understanding the selection, breeding, and genetics of animals to increase production, quality, and resistance to diseases.
Livestock health and disease management: Understanding the different diseases affecting livestock, prevention measures, and treatment options.
Livestock housing and management: Understanding the different housing options for livestock, their advantages and disadvantages, and how to manage them.
Livestock waste management: Understanding the different waste management options for livestock, their benefits and drawbacks, and how to manage them.
Livestock marketing and economics: Understanding the economics of livestock production, pricing, and marketing strategies.
Livestock business management: Understanding the principles of managing livestock businesses, including finances, administration, and human resources.
Livestock and the environment: Understanding the environmental impact of livestock production, mitigation measures, and sustainable production practices.
Grazing: An extensive form of livestock farming where animals are free to roam the fields, pastures, or pastures with high grass.
Feedlot: A confined area where animals are raised in large numbers in controlled conditions and fed a specific diet to speed up their growth.
Silvopasture: Combining livestock with forestry where a few trees are planted in fields to provide shade and easy access to forage.
Aquaculture: Raising fish, crustaceans, and other aquatic creatures in a controlled environment, such as fish ponds, tanks or cages.
Pasture-raised: Animals are grazed on open fields and pastures with occasional supplementation of hay or feed.
Intensive grazing: Animals are regularly rotated between closely managed pasture paddocks to optimize forage supply and improve soil quality.
Agroforestry: Interspersing trees with other crops to create a mixed farming system that produces wood, fruits, and livestock.
Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO): A large-scale industrial operation that keeps hundreds or thousands of animals confined in a small space.
Free-range farming: Animals are allowed to roam freely outdoors but are provided with shelter and food.
Multi-species grazing: Animals of different species, for example, cattle, sheep, and chickens, are grazed together to improve the overall health of the pasture.