Bücher der Reihe Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine

A Seminar in the Community Programme for the Coordination of Agricultural Research, held in Brussels, Belgium, 8-9 November 1988. Sponsored by the Commission of European Communities, Directorate-General for Agriculture, Coordination of Agricultural Research

In South America, principal sites for raising cattle are shifting to the savannah lands because the more fertile soils are being used for crop produc- tion, however, in the savannahs also, disease remains the most powerful deterrent in implementing the cattle industry.

The contents of the symposia on energy metabolism of farm animals show this and they have initially focussed on feed evaluation and later on com parative aspects of energy metabolism. I n model studies on energy metabolism researchers have recognized the interaction between the environment and the energy requirements of animals.

A Seminar in the CEC Programme of Coordination of Research on Beef Production held at Castleknock, Co. Dublin, Ireland, April 13-15, 1981

A Seminar in the CEC Programme of Coordination Research on Animal Welfare, held at Oosterbeek, the Netherlands, April 17-18, 1986

Aujeszky's disease (AD) is increasing in Europe and it has become a serious problem in some of the countries of the European Communities (EC).

This publication contains the proceedings of a Seminar on 'The Mucosal Immune System' held by the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) at the University of Bristol.

The seminar was initiated by the scientific working group on 'Carcass and Meat Quality' and attracted the interest of the working groups on 'Genetics and Selection' and on 'Nutrition and Management'.

In South America, principal sites for raising cattle are shifting to the savannah lands because the more fertile soils are being used for crop produc tion, however, in the savannahs also, disease remains the most powerful deterrent in implementing the cattle industry.

Approximately five years have elapsed since the Conference on "Tick-borne Diseases and their Vectors" (Wilde, 1978, University of Edinburgh) was held at the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine in Edinburgh.

A Seminar in the CEC Programme of Coordiantion of Research on Beef Production, held in Brussels, December 13--14, 1982

Reduction of pre-slaughter stress and improvement in carcass and meat quality is becoming increasingly important in the international meat trade. This results in particular from growing consumer concern about the welfare of meat animals during the pre-slaughter period and from specific meat packaging and marketing requirements.

Symposium on the Diagnosis of Mycotoxicoses of Importance in the US and Japan, sponsored by US-Japan Cooperative Program on Development and Utilization of Natural Resources Joint Panel on Toxic Microorganism, and the National Animal Disease Center USDA, ARS, held at Ames, Iowa, Oct. 11-13, 1984

A Seminar in the CEC Programme of Coordination of Research on Animal Pathology, held at the Veterinary Research Laboratories, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sept. 22-23, 1983. Sponsored by the CEC, Directorate-General for Agriculture, Coordination of Agricultural Research.

The transport of farm livestock was the subject of the seminar held from 7 - 8 July 1981 at the Commission of the European Communities (CECl, Directorate General for Agriculture, Brussels as part of the work of the Division Coordinating Agricultural Research.

An Animal Pathology Seminar in the CEC Programme of Coordination of Agricultural Research held at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-6 February, 1980

Reduction of pre-slaughter stress and improvement in carcass and meat quality is becoming increasingly important in the international meat trade. This results in particular from growing consumer concern about the welfare of meat animals during the pre-slaughter period and from specific meat packaging and marketing requirements.

Approximately five years have elapsed since the Conference on "Tick-borne Diseases and their Vectors" (Wilde, 1978, University of Edinburgh) was held at the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine in Edinburgh.

That knowledge should lead to the development of interpretative and hopefully predictive theories which in turn will allow us to meet the recommendations of Article 3 of the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Animals Kept for Farming Purposes: 'that animals shall be housed, provided with food.

A Seminar in the EEC Programme of Coordination of Research on Beef Production held at Freising, Federal Republic of Germany, May 4--6, 1977

This publication contains the proceedings of a seminar held in Abano Terme, Italy on November 13 - 17, 1978, under the auspices of the Commission of the European Communities, as part of the EEC programme of co-ordination of research on improvement of beef production.

Proceedings of a workshop held at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria, November 30 to December 3, 1987

Today PHF has been diagnosed, at least serologically, practically across the entire United States, in some provinces of Canada, and reports are beginning to trickle in of its occurrence in European countries.

A Seminar in the CEC Agricultural Research Programme, held in Dublin, Ireland, November 21-22, 1985. Sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-General for Agriculture, Division for the Coordination of Agricultural Research

This workshop was organized and convened in an attempt to strengthen the basic science of the ruminant stomach, as it applies to an economically important group of mammals.