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The three principle aims of this substantially enlarged and revised
volume are to define standardised patterns of meat cutting and
ethnic variations, to provide a ready reference to the mainstream
muscle foods available commercially or being developed
scientifically around the world, and to help explain the properties
of different meat cuts and muscle foods in terms of meat quality.
This book provides a guide to many of the myriad of meat cuts and
muscle foods now widely available internationally. Cutting patterns
for beef, pork, lamb, game, poultry and fish are featured, plus a
number of invertebrates such as crabs, lobsters, shrimp, squid and
scallop that also produce straited muscle. Wholesale and retail
meat cuts are described and cross-referenced - many being clearly
illustrated and labelled - so that the reader may start with a
country, or with the name of a specific meat cut to find the
country of origin. In addition, the key scientific concepts
required in understanding food myosystems are briefly outlined. For
this second edition, information for ten countries has been added
or expanded, bringing the total to 51. names in Arabic and
Latin-American Spanish. Also, the entries for deep sea fish have
been increased.
"Applied Animal Feed Science and Technology" explores and suggests
practical ways of improving the value of animals through
supplementation. It begins by refreshing the reader on the classes
of feeds consumed by livestock, and their digestive systems.
Development and Commercialization of Biopesticides: Costs and
Benefits provides a uniquely comprehensive view of the commercial
production of biopesticides, from research to application,
featuring case studies in various developed and developing
countries of the world. The book offers guidance for future
strategies to researchers, along with considerations for the
industry's economic concerns, i.e., costs and benefits compared to
conventional pesticides, future perspectives for application
strategies, bioavailability and environmental safety, and impacts
on intellectual property issues during commercialization. Finally,
the book covers why the development of this industry must be
strategic, comprehensive and forward-looking in order to be an
accepted, safe and sustainable. There is no doubt that
biopesticides are now in large-scale use, and a variety of novel
techniques have been used to improve or modify existing
biopesticides, which will further accelerate their development.
Developing Sustainable and Health Promoting Cereals and
Pseudocereals: Conventional and Molecular Breeding reviews the most
recent developments in the fields of cereal and pseudocereal
breeding, with particular emphasis on the latest biotechnological
techniques likely to lead to breakthrough changes in plant
breeding. The book provides comprehensive information on the use of
genetic resources or pre-breeding activities to improve
health-related properties of cereals and pseudocereals. The text
also explores targeted field-management practices and the latest in
biotechnological methodologies, and offers a cohesive overview
necessary for understanding the potential impacts and benefits of
improved production of cereals and pseudocereals with
high-nutritional value.
Nematode Diseases of Crops and their Sustainable Management focuses
on methods to recognize and identify nematode attackers in
agriculturally important crops, offering ecologically sustainable
and economically viable strategies and measures for the management
of nematode infestations and diseases. The book analyzes nematode
pests as major constraints in global crop production and explores
the limitations of existing nematode management technologies. It
offers comprehensive information through individually focused
chapters on major nematode problems in internationally important
food, fiber and beverage crops as well as in mushrooms, polyhouse
agriculture and forest flora with regard to distribution, and much
more. In view of the highly damaging nature of the disease
complexes and complexity in their management, independent chapters
on nematode-fungus and nematode-bacteria disease complexes and
their management are also presented.
The image of western ranchers making a stand for their
"rights"-against developers, the government, "illegal"
immigrants-may be commonplace today, but the political power of the
cowboy was a long time in the making. In a book steeped in the
culture, traditions, and history of western range ranching,
Michelle K. Berry takes readers into the Cold War world of cattle
ranchers in the American West to show how that power, with its
implications for the lands and resources of the mountain states,
was built, shaped, and shored up between 1945 and 1965. After long
days working the ranch, battling human and nonhuman threats, and
wrestling with nature, ranchers got down to business of another
sort, which Berry calls "cow talk." Discussing the best new
machinery; sharing stories of drought, blizzards, and bugs; talking
money and management and strategy: these ranchers were building a
community specific to their time, place, and work and creating a
language that embodied their culture. Cow Talk explores how this
language and its iconography evolved and how it came to provide
both a context and a vehicle for political power. Using ranchers'
personal papers, publications, and cattle growers association
records, the book provides an inside view of how range cattle
ranchers in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana
created a culture and a shared identity that would frame and inform
their relationship with their environment and with society at large
in an increasingly challenging, modernizing world. A multifaceted
analysis of postwar ranch life, labor, and culture, this innovative
work offers unprecedented insight into the cohesive political and
cultural power of western ranchers in our day.
Advances in Agronomy, Volume 178, the latest release in this
leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and
highlights new advances in the field, with each chapter written by
an international board of authors.
Advances in Agronomy, Volume 117, the latest release in this
leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and
highlights new advances in the field. Chapters in this new release
include Farming Systems Research: Concepts, Design and Methodology,
Soil Potassium Fertility and Management Strategies in South Asian
Agriculture, Sensing for Characterizing and Monitoring Soil
Functions - A Review, Isolation and Fractionation of Organic Matter
from Soils and Waters, Tolerance Mechanism and Management Concepts
of Iron Toxicity in Rice: A Critical Review, and Smart Sensing and
Automated Irrigation for Sustainable Rice Systems: A State of the
Art Review.
Exploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian
studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary
insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand
agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It
highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by
theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation. The
Handbook presents critical analyses of, and examines controversies
about, historical and contemporary social structures and processes
in agrarian and rural settings from a wide range of perspectives.
Chapters explore the origins of critical agrarian studies, the
concepts underpinning the diverse theoretical approaches to the
field, and the strengths and weaknesses of different methodologies
used within the field. Finally, it illuminates debates around the
topic and trajectories for future research and development. This
will be a vital resource for graduate students, scholars and
activists interested in critical agrarian studies. The analytical
and empirical insights will also be helpful to students of
environmental and development studies as well as agricultural and
development economics, human geography and socio-cultural
anthropology.
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