Wageningen Academic Publishers Books

Ammonia Emissions in Agriculture

£52.00

This book aims to bring together visions and knowledge from scientists, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders around the subject of NH3 emissions from agricultural operations and its reduction options.

Antimicrobial Growth Promoters

£82.50

This book contains peer-reviewed papers presented at the international conference Antimicrobial Growth Promoters: Worldwide Ban on the Horizon?. The book is filled with valuable information on the pros and cons of use of AGPs as well as on alternative nutritional solutions. It is aimed at professionals and researchers in the feed and food industry.

Biofuels: implications for the feed industry

£29.00

Increasing bio-fuel production in the future will have a major impact on the feed industry. Not only will the competition for food, fuel and feed decrease the availability of feedstuffs for animal production but, also new feedstuffs will become available for which the nutritional quality needs to be reviewed.

Dietary Fibre

£66.00

The growing attention for healthy eating, intestinal health, combating major disorders such as obesity and diabetes and prevention of cardio-vascular diseases and cancer, has resulted in an increased output of R&D on dietary fibre and related carbohydrates.

Dietary fibre components and functions

£74.00

This book is essential reading for all researchers and those who concern themselves with bioprocesses and food technology. 'Dietary fibre components and functions' covers the most up-to-date research available on dietary fibre and will be an indispensable tool for all scientists involved in research and development in this field.

Energy and protein metabolism and nutrition - eaap127

£98.50

This book is a valuable resource to all researchers and industry professionals who concern themselves with animal nutrition.

Evaluation of carcass and meat quality in ruminants

£51.00

This book reviews the historical and recent developments for carcass evaluation and grading for meat quality assessment in beef and sheep. It places special emphasis on new concepts and approaches to define carcass and meat quality and on the use of modern technologies for composition and quality evaluation.

Feed evaluation

£66.00

This text, written by a team of international authorities, covers basic principles and new developments in feed evaluation for simple-stomached animals with an emphasis on pigs and poultry. The topics of nutrient analysis and characterisation, nutrient bioavailablility, post-absorptive nutrient utilisation, modern approaches to the estimation of nutrient requirements (including growth modelling) are all covered in depth.

Food and fuel: The example of Brazil

£37.00

Biofuel is a booming industry. New technologies allow production of diesel and other fuels from cane. Sugar cane ethanol is the only renewable fuel that can currently compete with gasoline. Coca Cola just launched the plastic bottle with sugar cane plastic.

Gaining The Edge In Pork and Poultry Production

£74.00

Globally, pork and poultry production has become an extremely competitive industry. There is now more pork consumed in the world than any other meat, yet there is still intense competition for the industry to attract and retain consumers. Consumers continue to demand safe, high quality pork and poultry products at competitive prices compared to other high protein food alternatives.

Gaining the edge in ruminant production

£44.00

This edited collection of papers is taken from a seminar that brought together some of the world?s leading authorities in the field of ruminant nutrition and production. The fundamental theme is to re-examine the current trends in productivity within the dairy and beef industries, and to identify nutritional and managerial means to improve competitiveness.

Gut efficiency; the key ingredient in pig and poultry production

£78.00

This edited collection of papers is taken from a series of seminars that brought together some of the world's leading authorities in the field of pig and poultry nutrition and production. The fundamental theme is to address the interaction between nutrition and the gut ecosystem as a means to enhance health, performance and ultimately profitability.

Gut efficiency; the key ingredient in ruminant production

£40.00

'Gut efficiency; the key ingredient in ruminant production' brings together some of the world's leading authorities in the field of ruminant nutrition and production. It considers the importance of digestive health in performance achievement together with novel strategies to manage it. It is aimed at nutritionists, veterinarians and animal producers as well as students and researchers studying animal and applied biological sciences.

Horse behaviour and welfare - EAAP 122

£41.50

This book constitutes a very rich overview of the recent and new research lines in the field of horse behaviour and welfare.

Management of lameness causes in sport horses: Muscle, tendon, joint and bone disorders

£52.50

Key aspects on the diagnosis and management of lameness caused by muscle, tendon, joint and bone related disorders in sport horses will be presented in this book.

Mastitis control: From science to practice

£70.00

This book gives the state of the art of mastitis research internationally. The contributions reflect not only current knowledge of mastitis control, but also provide ideas for effective mastitis control in practice.

Mycotoxins and phycotoxins: Advances in determination, toxicology and exposure management

£86.00

This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers of the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) symposium "Mycotoxins and phycotoxins". These symposia are the principal international interdisciplinary conventions focusing on occurrence, advances in determination, toxicology and exposure management of these bio-contaminants.

Nutrition and feeding of the broodmare

£57.00

This publication deals with the broodmare, which is the key animal in the Equine chain. In the new competitive context of Equine Industry, the mare should foal a healthy offspring yearly at an optimum cost. The foal should be born and weaned at the accurate months of the year to fit the particular goals of production, i.e. races, sports or leisure horses.

Nutrition and Health Of The Gastrointestinal Tract

£43.00

Microbial agents (particularly bacteria) represent the greatest risk to public health. The traditional end-product oriented food inspection systems are inadequate for identifying and eliminating the usually symptomless animal carriers of agents causing foodborne infections and intoxications.

Nutrition Of The Performance Horse

£40.00

This publication contains the proceedings of the 1st biannual European Workshop on Equine Nutrition. It includes outlines of the recommended allowances for equines for energy and nitrogen nutrition intake in various European countries (France, Germany, Nordic countries and The Netherlands), where INRA or NRC systems are used.

Nutritional Approaches To Arresting The Decline In Fertility Of Pigs and Poultry

£78.00

Continued genetic development of pigs and poultry has been the foundation of profitable production within a competitive market. However, the challenges of these production increases have undoubtedly taken their toll on reproductive function in all breeding livestock, with the incidence of infertility increasing at an alarming rate.

On Farm Monitoring Of Pig Welfare

£43.00

The objective of this book is to provide a scientificly-based outline for how to evaluate the welfare of pigs at a farm level. Attention is focused on the assessment of the validation of the inferred indicators and parameters, and the validity, reliability and the feasibility of the measuring methods.

Ruminant Physiology

£82.50

This book contains peer-reviewed contributions to the XthInternational Symposium on Ruminant Physiology. Proceedings from past ISRP symposia have had a major influence on research and teaching in animal science over the years. Without a doubt, the chapters in this book written by some of the best scientists in the field, will live up to this fine tradition.

Ruminant physiology: Digestion, metabolism and effects of nutrition on reproduction and welfare

£70.00

This book contains the proceedings of the XIth International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology. The papers address ruminant comparative physiology, the rumen ecosystem and metagenomics, nutrient digestion and absorption, methanogenesis, tissue metabolism and gene expression, pregnancy, lactation and growth, adaptation to heat-stress, nitrogen use, nutrition and reproduction, nutrition and welfare a

Tables Of Composition and Nutritional Value Of Feed Materials

£48.00

This book is the result of collaborative work between INRA and the Association Française de Zootechnie (AFZ). The tables in this book present the chemical composition and nutritional values of the feed materials fed to the main farm species. The feed materials included in this publication are used both in the formulation of compound feeds and as straight feedstuffs (concentrates and by-products).

The growing horse: nutrition and prevention of growth disorders

£48.00

This book provides an outstanding synthesis of the biology and the physiopathology of growth and of the nutritional requirements necessary for feeding the healthy growing horse.

The mycotoxin factbook: Food & feed topics

£74.00

"The mycotoxin factbook" is a valuable resource for researchers and professionals from the food and feed industry as well as from the scientific community. This book is an ideal supplement to "Meeting the mycotoxin menace" as published in 2004.

Utilisation and Conservation Of Farm Animal Genetic Resources

£32.00

he genetic diversity comprised in farm animal species and breeds is an important resource in livestock systems. For several reasons, within the different species used for food production, only a few breeds are developed towards high-output breeds fitting in high-input systems. In this process many breeds are set aside from the food producing livestock systems.

Welfare of pigs: From birth to slaughter

£74.00

The current scientific literature contains reviews and articles on specific aspects of pig production and farm animal welfare. This book is intended to be a reference text that covers all aspects of pig production, on the basis of scientific results.

Welfare of production animals: assessment and management of risks

£85.00

This book, the fifth in the series 'Food Safety Assurance and Veterinary Public Health', and provides an up-to-date overview of the science of animal welfare and its assessment, of options for the assessment and management of risks for the welfare of production animals, and of the ramifications these may have for the safety of foods of animal origin.