24 articles in this issue
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Simone Blanc,Carles M. Gasol,Julia Martínez-Blanco,Pere Muñoz,Jaime Coello,Pere Casals,Angela Mosso,Filippo Brun
The impact of agricultural practices and the excess application of nitrogen can negatively impact the environment and cause human health problems. In Spain, the liquid manure applied in areas of intensive agriculture is creating groundwater nitrate pollut... see more
Rosa M. Fanelli
The classification of agricultural and territorial systems is essential to improve the comparability of regions for the development programmers of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), to give new tools of intervention to policymakers and to increase farm... see more
Francisco Alcon,M. Angeles Fernández-Zamudio,Erasmo I. López-Becerra,M. Dolores de-Miguel
The fundamental basis of Spanish citriculture is its varietal composition, which contributes to the existence of a marketing calendar that extends to almost the entire year. As time goes by, the supply of varieties is continuously renewed, requiring signi... see more
Jorge Pelegrín,Carlos González-Menorca,Lino Meraz
Wineries are using wine tourism to sell directly to consumers and develop brand equity. Studies show that emotions directly affect the purchase of products. However, they do not know the degree to which the emotions produced by the winery visit, the wine ... see more
Joseph P. Musara,Lovemore Musemwa,Munyaradzi Mutenje,Abbyssinia Mushunje,Charles Pfukwa
Sorghum is important for sustainability of smallholder farmers’ subsistence, social and economic livelihoods in semi-arid and arid environments of Southern Africa. However, production of the crop has been on the decline in the smallholder communities of s... see more
Andrzej Pisulewski,Jerzy Marzec
Accounting for heterogeneity in the measurement of farm efficiency is crucial to avoid biases related to climate and soil quality diversity in a given area. Therefore, this paper investigates the level of technical efficiency (TE) of Polish crop farms bas... see more
Gabriel Pino,Ariel Soto-Caro
Despite evidence highlighting the multiple benefits that liberalization can have in the agricultural sector, agricultural protectionism is abundant, especially in developing countries. Chile provides an interesting case on this topic because it implemente... see more
Marco Fedrizzi,Francesca Antonucci,Giulio Sperandio,Simone Figorilli,Federico Pallottino,Corrado Costa
The aim of this study was to find a model able to extract the net time per unit of net worked area from different agricultural field basic shapes (square, circle, rectangle and triangle) considering the following variables: field gross area, working speed... see more
Navid Ghavi Hossein-Zadeh
To evaluate effect of dystocia on the lactation curve characteristics for milk yield and composition in Holstein cows, six non-linear models (Brody, Wood, Sikka, Nelder, Dijkstra and Rook) were fitted on 5,917,677 test day records for milk yield (MY), fat... see more
Carmen Rodríguez-Valdovinos,Juan García-Casco,Fabián García-Ruiz,Yolanda Núñez-Moreno,Luis Silió-López
Although the Torbiscal line of Iberian pigs has been largely studied, some aspects of its history are not well known. In this paper, we used pedigree-based methods on a complete genealogy of 4,077 entries in order to get a comprehensive analysis of its fo... see more
Jessica Flores,José E. García,Jesús Mellado,Leticia Gaytán,Ángeles de Santiago,Miguel Mellado
The objective of this study was to determine the effects of the administration of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) throughout lactation to high-yielding subfertile (conception > 270 days postpartum) Holstein cows undergoing extended lactations (=... see more
Meysam Latifi,Mohammad Razmkabir
The objective of the present study was to estimate genetic trends for body weight at different ages in Markhoz goat, including birth weight (BW, n = 4758), weaning weight (WW, n= 3685), 6-month weight (6MW, n = 3420), 9-month weight (9MW, n = 3032) and 12... see more
Sourabh Sulabh,Manjit Panigrahi,Satish Kumar,Rajat Varshney,Ankita Verma,Naseer A. Baba,Jay P. Gupta,Anuj Chauhan,Pushpendra Kumar,Triveni Dutt,Bharat Bhushan
Mastitis is a complex disease responsible for huge economic losses to the dairy sector. The causal organisms include a wide variety of micro-organisms including several species of bacteria. Escherichia coli has been identified as one of the most common gr... see more
Alicia Román-Trufero,Antonio Martínez,Luis M. M. Ferreira,Valentín García-Prieto,Rocío Rosa-García,Koldo Osoro,Rafael Celaya
Steer meat production in northern Spain is deficient to attend market demand. This research aimed to compare the foraging behaviour and production of yearling steers from two local breeds differing in body weight (BW), Asturian Valley (AV, 372 kg) and Ast... see more
Renhe Zhang,Xiyuan Hu
AbstractThe empirical best linear unbiased prediction (eBLUP) is usually based on the assumption that the residual error variance (REV) is homogenous. This may be unrealistic, and therefore limits the accuracy of genotype evaluations for multi-location tr... see more
Mitra Azadikhah,Fatemeh Jamali,Hamid-Reza Nooryazdan,Fereshteh Bayat
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria containing 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase enzyme reduce the level of stress, ethylene and stimulate plant growth under various biotic and abiotic stress conditions. The present study aims at characte... see more
Isabel Q. Ferreira,M. Ângelo Rodrigues,Margarida Arrobas
Boron (B) has great importance in the fertilizer recommendation programs of olive, since B deficiency is a frequent nutritional disorder. This paper reports results of the olive response to applied B from two 3-year field trials (ExpF1, ExpF2) and two pot... see more
Emily S. Araujo,Leticia R. Paiva,Sidney G. Alves,Daniele Bevacqua,Dori E. Nava,Claire Lavigne,Flavio R. M. García
Phenological asynchrony between fruit crops and pests consists of a discrepancy between the period of fruit susceptibility and that of high pest abundance in the orchards. Therefore, it may be used for reducing pesticide applications. We assayed the poten... see more
M. Mar Guerrero,Carmen M. Lacasa,Victoriano Martínez,M. Carmen Martínez-Lluch,Santiago Larregla,Alfredo Lacasa
The efficacy of soil biosolarization for the control of Verticillium dahliae and Rhizoctonia solani fungal pathogens was evaluated over two consecutive artichoke crop cycles in southeastern Spain. Soil biosolarization was applied in mid-June for 42 days. ... see more
Isabel Arjona-Girona,David Ruano-Rosa,Carlos J. López-Herrera
An increased incidence of dieback from branches in several avocado orchards in southern Spain was observed in 2014. Surveys were conducted from May to October 2014, sampling the affected branches to isolate the causal agents. A total of 68 fungal isolates... see more
Darko Jevremovic,Aleksandar Leposavic,Svetlana A Paunovic
Raspberry leaf blotch emaravirus (RLBV) is a recently characterised virus infecting raspberries reported in several European countries. RLBV causes yellow blotching, the distortion of leaf margins, and the twisting of raspberry leaves. For a long time, si... see more
Maite Gandariasbeitia,Mikel Ojinaga,Estibaliz Orbegozo,Amaia Ortíz-Barredo,Mireia Núñez-Zofío,Sorkunde Mendarte,Santiago Larregla
Phytophthora capsici causes root and crown rot of protected pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) crops in the Basque Country (northern Spain), a humid temperate climate area. The objective was to determine the effect of winter biofumigation and plastic cover (biod... see more
Belén Puyuelo,Joseba S. Arizmendiarrieta,Ignacio Irigoyen,Ramón Plana
Composting of organic wastes is a management strategy linked to circular economy models through the transformation of these wastes into an organic product, compost, which can be used as fertiliser, soil amendment or growing media. However, the concept of ... see more