Alternative low input / organic production methods

Date: 07 June ‘05; 8:30 - 12:30 hours
Chairperson: Keane (IRL)

Theatre

• Organic Livestock Systems: characteristics and challenges for improvement (Hermansen, J.E., T. Kristensen and B. Ronchi)
• Environmental ethics and organic farming (Jensen, K.K.)
• Factors causing a higher level of liver abscesses in organic compared with conventional dairy herds (Jorgensen, K.F., A.M. Kjeldsen, F. Strudsholm and M. Vestergaard)
• Comparing sheep for meat production of organic versus conventional farms: structures, functioning, technical and economic results (Benoit, M. and G. Laignel)
• Alternative low input system in sheep milk production: competitiveness to intensive production system (Kukovics, S., P. Kovács, S. Nagy, G. Csatári and J. Jávor)
• Low input dairy systems: balancing environment and animal performance (Sebek, L.B.J., R.L.M. Schils, J. Verloop, H.F.M. Aarts and Z. van der Vegte)
• Genotype environment interaction for milk production traits between conventional and organic dairy farming in the Netherlands (Nauta, W.J., T. Baars and H. Bovenhuis)
• Nitrogen self-sufficiency at the suckler cattle farm scale: adaptation of the farming systems, economic consequences (Veysset, P., M. Lherm and D. Bébin)
• Effects of chicory roots on finishing performance and CLA and fatty acid composition in longissimus muscle of Friesian steers (Vestergaard, M., H.R. Andersen, P. Lund, T. Kristensen, L.L. Hansen and K. Sejrsen)
• Influence of amino acid levels to indoor and outdoor growing/finishing pigs on performance, carcass quality and behaviour (Høøk Presto, M., K. Andersson and J.E. Lindberg)

Poster

• Future scenarios for sustainable beef production in Sweden (Kumm, K.-I., S. Stern, S. Gunnarsson, U. Sonesson, I. Öborn and T. Nybrant)
• Living and slaughtering performance of Piemontese young bulls reared according to organic farming method (Lazzaroni, C. and D. Biagini)
• Feeding of layers of different genotypes in an organic feed environment (Lagerkvist, G., K. Elwinger and R. Tauson)
• Housing systems for organic slaughter pigs (Olsson, A.-C., J. Svendsen, J. Botermans and M. Andersson)
• Effect on milk production and vitamin status in cows fed without synthetic vitamins (Johansson, B. and E. Nadeau)
• A historical perspective on low input dairy production (Israelsson, C.)
• Control of fitness in low input socio-ecological systems (Kaufmann, B.A.)