2025

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Dauksta K., Cardenas L., Romero-Ruiz A., Sgouridis F., Memmott J., Enriquez-Hidalgo D. 2025. Grazing stocking densities and cattle urine impact on soil compaction and nitrous oxide emissions under temperate conditions. 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP), Innsbruck, Austria.

Sharma A, Randewich L, Andrew W, Hannuna S, Campbell N, Mullan S, Dowsey AW, Smith M, Hansen M, Burghardt T. 2025. Universal bovine identification via depth data and deep metric learning. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 229, 109657.

Phoenix Yu, Tilo Burghardt, Andrew W Dowsey, Neill W Campbell. 2025. Holstein-Friesian Re-Identification using Multiple Cameras and Self-Supervision on a Working Farm. arXiv:2410.12695

Ayala, W.; Pereyra, F.; Rovira, P.; Savian, J. 2025. Meeting global food demand sustainably: Insights from Uruguay´s Campos Ecosystem in South America. Proceedings of the International Rangeland Conference. Adelaide, Australia, 2-6 June. 4 p.

Kalaiyarasi, K. and Elayadeth-Meethal, M., 2025. Characterization and identification of novel polymorphisms in the OR51H1 gene associated with resistance/tolerance to natural Theileria infection in Vechur (Bos indicus) and crossbred (B. taurus× B. indicus) cattle in a Theileria-endemic region. Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports, p.101242.

Kalaiyarasi, K. and Elayadeth-Meethal, M., 2025. Characterization and identification of novel polymorphisms in the OR51H1 gene associated with resistance/tolerance to natural Theileria infection in Vechur (Bos indicus) and crossbred (B. taurus× B. indicus) cattle in a Theileria-endemic region. Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports, p.101242

Ventura-Cordero J, Airs PM, Safalaoh ACL, Mvula W, Cooke AS, Gwiriri LC, Machekano, H, Wagstaff, P, Nyamukondiwa, C, Lee, MRF, Takahashi, T, van Wyk, J, Nalivata, PC, Morgan, ER. 2025. Targeted selective supplementation with local plants sustainably improves goat health and decreases anthelmintic drug need on Malawi smallholdings. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6235021/v1

Clément C., Tricheur A., Farruggia A., Durant D., Mzali L., Grandeau G., Roche B. 2025. Test of the step-by-step design approach to study the transition of an organic farm located in a marshland area (France). 8th International Farming System Design Conference – August 25-29th.

Farruggia A. Durant D., Clement C., Mzali L., Grandeau G., Roche B. 2025. Mobilising agroecological principles to analyse the transition path of a mixed crop-livestock system. 8th International Farming System Design Conference – August 25-29th.

Clément C., Durant D., Lemaire N., Cadet E., Grandeau G., Roux P., Faure P., Farruggia A. 2025. Créer de la diversité végétale sur une ferme de polyculture-élevage pour favoriser la biodiversité : application et résultats – Fourrages 262, In press

Akpensuen, T. T., Rivero, M. J. 2025. Make Achieving net-zero agriculture in Africa: perspective on policies, challenges, and opportunities. Sustainability Science 20, 1117–1137

Durant D., Farruggia A., Grimonpont H., Reau R. 2025. Results-based approach for biodiversity management at the farm scale: proposal for a new method. The Journal of Wildlife Management, In press

Puech T., Farruggia A., Durant D., Glinec J.-F., Novak S., Signoret F., Stark F., Sterling D. 2025. Use of atypical plant resources for cattle farming in Western Europe to drive agroecological transition. Agricultural Systems, 226 (104329).

Jebari A., Takahashi T., Lee M.r.f., Collins A.l., Coleman K., Carswell A., Segura C., Cardenas L., Mcauliffe G.a. 2025. Life Cycle Assessment of greenhouse gas mitigation measures for beef production grazing systems in temperate climates. International Journal of LCA 30, 654-667.

Akpensuen, T. T., Cartmill, A. D., Perez-Marquez, S, Sheridan, H., Lee, M. R. F. and Rivero, M. J. 2025. Make African grasslands climate-change resilient. Communications Earth & Environment. 6 (111).

Rivero, M. J., Ayoob-Khan, A., Akpensuen, T., De-Meo-Filho, P., Perez-Marquez, S. and Jones, A. 2025. Evaluating the efficacy of a novel multi-component feed additive for methane mitigation and performance enhancement in sheep. Ruminants. 5 (2), p. 17.

Liu, N., Guo, T.., Zhang, H., Yang, G., Wei, B., Xu, H., Ren, H., Badgery, W., Kemp, D., Nie, Z., Lee, M.R.F., Rillig, M.C., Zhang, Y. One Earth, In Press

Pereyra-Goday, F., Castillo, J., Rovira, P, Ayala, W, Lee, M. R. F. and Rivero, M. J. 2025. Nitrogen use efficiency of integrated crop-livestock systems at different levels of intensification. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 9.

Cooke, A., Storkey, J., Acquah, G., Lee, M. R. F. and Rivero, M. J. 2025. Trade-offs between forage nutrition and ruminant carrying capacity in response to fertiliser application – Findings from the Park Grass long-term experiment (1860–2020). Field Crops Research. 324 (April), p. 109791.

Dauksta K., Cardenas L., Romero-Ruiz A., Sgouridis F., Memmott J., Enriquez-Hidalgo D. 2025. The effect of different stocking densities and cattle urine on soil nitrous oxide emissions and compaction on a temperate pasture. European Geoscience Union (EGU), Viena, Austria. 

2024

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Sharma A, Randewich L, Andrew W, Hannuna S, Campbell N, Bruce R, Enriquez-Hidalgo D, Smith M, Burghardt T, Hansen M , Dowsey AD. 2024. Universal bovine identification with depth cameras and deep metric learning to underpin the John Oldacre Centre dairy research platform. 75th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP), Florence, Italy, Pg. 1013 

Pereyra, F. 2024. Alternativas de intensificación sostenible de sistemas agrícola-ganaderos basados en rotaciones y estrategias ganaderas contrastantes. Tesis de Doctorado en Ciencias Agrarias. Facultad de Agronomía – UdelaR. Montevideo, Uruguay 197 p.

Airs PM, Tinsley JHI, Mvula W, Ventura-Cordero J, Takahashi T, Nalivata P, Morgan, ER, Safaloah, ACL. 2024. Prevalence of Plastic and Hardware Foreign Bodies among Goats at Malawi Markets. Animals. 4(1):147.

Graf, M., Reay, M.K., Dimitriou, A., Chadwick, D.R., Jones, D.L., 2025. Assessment of Four Artificial Methods for Aging Plastic Mulch Films According to Efficiency, Rate, and Similarity to Natural Field-Aged Plastics. Journal of Polymers and the Environment, pp.1-19.

Langley-Randall, J., Jones, D.L., Cotton, J., Williams, J.R. and Chadwick, D.R., 2024. Slurry acidification is as effective as slurry injection at reducing ammonia emissions without increasing N2O emissions: A short-term mesocosm study. Geoderma Regional, p.e00791.

Cooledge, E.C., Kendall, N.R., Leake, J.R., Chadwick, D.R. and Jones, D.L., 2024. Herbal leys increase forage macro-and micronutrient content, spring lamb nutrition, liveweight gain, and reduce gastrointestinal parasites compared to a grass-clover ley. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 367, p.108991.

Young, M., Young, J., Kingwell, R.S. & Vercoe, P.E. 2024. Identifying high-value tactical livestock decisions on a mixed enterprise farm in a variable environment. Animal Production Science 64, AN23407.

Durmic, Z., Vercoe, P. & Hill, J. 2024. BeefLinks: managing cattle in the Australian rangelands. Using virtual fencing technologies for sustainable outcomes. Final Report, Project P.PSH.1306 [Meat & Livestock Australia, North Sydney, Australia]

Maxin G., Graulet B., Novak S., Mesbahi G., Signoret F., Glinec J.-F., Laurent E., Drusch S., Durant D. 2024. Potential health value of alternative plant resources explored as feed for ruminants, 30th EGF general meeting, 9-13 June 2024, Leeuwardeen (Netherland).

Fernanda De Torres M., Farruggia A., Daranlot L., Mouret S., Roux P., Prieur M., Cassen S. 2024. Choregraphed interactions with cows to rethinking livestock subjectivity and Human-animal collaborations, 75. Annual meeting of the european federation of animal science (EAAP), 1-5 September 2024, Florence (Italy).

Cooke A.s., Machekano H., Gwiriri L.c., Tinsley J.h.i., Silva G.m., Nyamukondiwa C., Safalaoh A., Morgan E.r., Lee M.r.f. 2024. The Nutritional Feed Gap: A review of seasonal variation in ruminant forage availability and quality in Southern Africa. Food Security 17, 73-100

Cooke A.s., Mvula W., Nalivata P., Ventura-cordero J., Gwiriri L.c., Takahashi T., Morgan E.r., Lee M.r.f., Safalaoh A. 2024. Seasonal dynamics of forage nutrition in smallholder goat production systems in Malawi. African Journal of Range & Forage 41: 1-10.

Mcauliffe G.a., Beal T., Lee M.r.f., Van der pols J.c. 2024. Pushing the Frontiers of nutritional Life Cycle Assessment (nLCA). Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 8:1471102.

Kao P.-t., Mcgrath S.p., Buss H.l., Darch T., Warren H., Mcauliffe G.a., Cardenas L., Blackwell M., Lee M.r.f. 2024. The role of ruminant urine and faeces in the recycling of nutrients by forages. Scientific Reports 14, 16007.

Cooke A.s., Machekano H., Ventura-cordero J., Louro-lopez A., Joseph V., Gwiriri L., Takahashi T., Morgan E.r., Lee M.r.f., Nyamukondiwa C. 2024. Opportunities to improve goat production and food security in Botswana through forage nutrition and the use of supplemental feeds. Food Security 16:607-622.

Martin, G.B. 2024. Perspective: science and the future of livestock industries. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 11, 1359247.

Pereyra, F., Jebari, A., Takahashi, T., Rovira, P., Ayala, W., Lee, M. R. F., Rivero, M. J. and Mcauliffe, G. 2024. Carbon footprint of mixed farming crop-livestock rotational-based grazing beef systems using long term experimental data. Agronomy for Sustainable Development – ASD. 44, p. 41.

Chamberlain, A. T., Mead, A., Rivero, M. J. and Wilkinson, J. M. 2024. Effect of additional herbage areas on grazing dairy cows in commercial farms: A GPS and LoRaWAN based case study on herbage intake and milk yield. Archivos Latinoamericanos de Produccion Animal. 32 (1), pp. 37-54.

Blackwell, M. S. A., Takahashi, T., Cardenas, L. M., Collins, A. L., Enriquez, D., Griffith, B. A., Hunt, J., Lee, M. R. F., Misselbrook, T. H., Neal, A. L., Rivero, M. J., Shield, I. F., Storkey, J., Wu, L. and Harris, P. 2024. Potential unintended consequences of agricultural land use change driven by dietary transitions. npj sustainable agriculture. 2 (1).

Jebari, A., Pereyra, F., Kumar, A., Collins, A. L., Rivero, M. J. and Mcauliffe, G. 2024. Feasibility of mitigation measures for agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. A systematic review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development – ASD. 44 (2).

2023

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Henryon, M., Ostersen, T., Vercoe, P. & Sørensen, C. (2023). Animal breeding is part of the solution to environment, climate, and animal-welfare challenges facing animal production. Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics 25, 5-9.

Badgery, W., Li, G., Simmons, A., Wood, J., Smith, R., Peck, D., Ingram, L., Durmic, Z., Cowie, A., Humphries, A., Hutton, P., Winslow, E., Vercoe, P. & Eckard, R. 2023. Reducing enteric methane of ruminants in Australian grazing systems – a review of the role for temperate legumes and herbs. Crop & Pasture Science 74, 661-679.

Novelli, T. I., Pascale Palhares, J. C., Silva Martello, L., Raposo de Medeiros, S. and Rivero, M. J. 2023. Three environmental dimensions of beef cattle in tropical feedlot – Water, nutrients and land. Science of the Total Environment. 904, p. 166733.

Elayadeth-Meethal, M., Rivero, M. J., Mead, A., Lee, M. R. F. and Misselbrook, T. H. 2023. Comparison of lipid profiles in the faeces of beef cattle fed three common temperate grass silage diets and their relevance to dietary composition. Journal Of Animal And Feed Sciences. 32 (4).

Cooke, A., Mullan, S., Morten, C., Hockenhull, J., Le-Grice, P., Le Cocq, K., Lee, M. R. F., Cardenas, L. M. and Rivero, M. J. 2023. Comparison of the welfare of beef cattle in housed and grazing systems – hormones, health, and behaviour. Journal of Agricultural Science. 161(3), 450 – 463

McAuliffe, G., Takahashi, T., Lee, M. R. F., Jebari, A., Cardenas, L. M., Kumar, A., Pereyra-Goday, F., Scalabrino, H. and Collins, A. L. 2023. A commentary on key methodological developments related to nutritional life cycle assessment (nLCA) generated throughout a 6-year strategic scientific programme. Food and Energy Security. p. e480.

Meo-Filho, P., Hood, J., Lee, M. R. F., Fleming, H. R., Elayadeth-Meethal, M. and Misselbrook, T. H. 2023. Performance and enteric methane emissions from housed beef cattle fed silage produced on pastures with different forage profiles. Animal. 17 (4), p. 100726.

Pablo Manzano, Jason Rowntree, Logan Thompson, Agustín del Prado, Peer Ederer, Wilhelm Windisch, Michael R F Lee, Challenges for the balanced attribution of livestock’s environmental impacts: the art of conveying simple messages around complex realities. Animal Frontiers, 13(2),  35–44

McAuliffe, G., Lynch, J., Cain, M., Buckingham, S., Rees, R. M., Collins, A. L., Allen, M., Pierrehumbert, R., Lee, M. R. F. and Takahashi, T. 2023. Are single global warming potential impact assessments adequate for carbon footprints of agri-food systems? Environmental Research Letters. 18 (8), p. 084014.

Romero-Ruiz, A., Rivero, M. J., Milne, A. E., Morgan, S., De-Meo-Filho, P., Pulley, S., Segura-Quirante, C., Harris, P., Lee, M. R. F., Coleman, K., Cardenas, L. M. and Whitmore, A. P. 2023. Grazing livestock move by Levy walks – Implications for soil health and environment. Journal of Environmental Management. 345 (1), p. 118835.

Airs P.m., Ventura-cordero J., Gwiriri L., Mvula W., Lee M.r.f., Van wyk J., Nalivata P.c., Takahashi T., Morgan E.r., Safalaoh A.c.l. 2023. Goat health and management are critical to livelihood improvement 2 in central Malawi smallholdings – a socioeconomic analysis of rural 3 households. Small Ruminant Research. 229 107114.

Brown, R.W., Chadwick, D.R., Zang, H., Graf, M., Liu, X., Wang, K., Greenfield, L.M. and Jones, D.L., 2023. Bioplastic (PHBV) addition to soil alters microbial community structure and negatively affects plant-microbial metabolic functioning in maize. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 441, p.129959.

Button, E.S., Marsden, K.A., Nightingale, P.D., Dixon, E.R., Chadwick, D.R., Jones, D.L. and Cárdenas, L.M., 2023. Separating N2O production and consumption in intact agricultural soil cores at different moisture contents and depths. European Journal of Soil Science, p.e13363.

Button, E.S., Marshall, M., Sánchez-Rodríguez, A.R., Blaud, A., Abadie, M., Chadwick, D.R. and Jones, D.L., 2023. Greenhouse gas production, diffusion and consumption in a soil profile under maize and wheat production. Geoderma, 430, p.116310.

Dodd, R.J., Chadwick, D.R., Hill, P.W., Hayes, F., Sánchez-Rodríguez, A.R., Gwynn-Jones, D., Smart, S.M. and Jones, D.L., 2023. Resilience of ecosystem service delivery in grasslands in response to single and compound extreme weather events. Science of The Total Environment, 861, p.160660.

Graf, M., Greenfield, L.M., Reay, M.K., Bargiela, R., Williams, G.B., Onyije, C., Lloyd, C.E., Bull, I.D., Evershed, R.P., Golyshin, P.N., Chadwick, D.R., and Jones, D.L. 2023. Increasing concentration of pure micro-and macro-LDPE and PP plastic negatively affect crop biomass, nutrient cycling, and microbial biomass. Journal of Hazardous Materials, p.131932.

Reay, M.K., Marsden, K.A., Powell, S., Chadwick, D.R., Jones, D.L. and Evershed, R.P., 2023. Combining field and laboratory approaches to quantify N assimilation in a soil microbe-plant-animal grazing land system. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 346, p.108338.

King, A.J., Portugal, S.J., Strömbom, D., Mann, R.P., Carrillo, J.A., Kalise, D., de Croon, G., Barnett, H., Scerri, P., Groß, R. and Chadwick, D.R., 2023. Biologically inspired herding of animal groups by robots. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(2), pp.478-486.

Rhymes, J., Chadwick, D.R., Williams, A.P., Harris, I.M., Lark, R.M. and Jones, D.L., 2023. Evaluating the accuracy and usefulness of commercially-available proximal soil mapping services for grassland nutrient management planning and soil health monitoring. Precision Agriculture, 24, 3, pp. 898-920.

Reay, M.K., Marsden, K.A., Powell, S., Rivera, L.M., Chadwick, D.R., Jones, D.L. and Evershed, R.P., 2023. The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 180, p.109011.

Reay, M.K., Marsden, K.A., Powell, S., Chadwick, D.R., Jones, D.L. and Evershed, R.P., 2023. Combining field and laboratory approaches to quantify N assimilation in a soil microbe-plant-animal grazing land system. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 346, p.108338.

Wang, D., Chadwick, D.R., Hill, P.W., Ge, T. and Jones, D.L., 2023. Rapid microbial uptake and mineralization of 14C-labelled cysteine and methionine along a grassland productivity gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 180, p.109022.

Ward, C.R., Chadwick, D.R. and Hill, P.W., 2023. Potential to improve nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) by use of perennial mobile green manures. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 125(1), pp.43-62.

Gwiriri LC, Machekano H, Cooke AS, Nyamukondiwa C, Safalaoh A, Ventura-Cordero J, Airs PM, van Wyk J, Nalivata P, Mvula W, Virgil J. Tinsley JHI, Lee, MRF, Morgan ER, Takahashi T. 2023. Ecological Interventions to Enhance Goat Health and Livelihood Outcomes in Rural Sub-Saharan African Communities. SSRN.

Airs PM, Ventura-Cordero J, Mvula W, Takahashi T, Van Wyk J, Nalivata P, Safaloah, ACL, Morgan, ER. 2023. Low-cost molecular methods to characterise gastrointestinal nematode co-infections of goats in Africa. Parasit Vectors. 16(1):216.

Elayadeth-Meethal, M., Tiambo, C.K., Naseef, P.P., Kuruniyan, M.S. and Maloney, S.K., 2023. The profile of HSPA1A gene expression and its association with heat tolerance in crossbred cattle and the tropically adapted dwarf Vechur and Kasaragod. Journal of Thermal Biology, 111, p.103426.

2022

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Pereyra-Goday, F., Rovira, P., Ayala, W. and Rivero, M. J. 2022. Management and Productivity of Key Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems in Uruguay: The Palo a Pique Long-Term Experiment’s Third Phase. Agronomy. 12 (12), p. 3023.

Cooke, A., Le-Grice, P., McAuliffe, G., Lee, M. R. F. and Rivero, M. J. 2022. Rethinking efficiency: Growth curves as a proxy for inputs and impacts in finishing beef systems. Journal of Environmental Management. 324, p. 116418.

Roche, B., Farruggia, A., Pousin, M., Riga, P., Chataigner, C., Boutifard, V., Prieur, M., Roux, P., Cooke, A. and Rivero, M. J. 2022. The Maraichine cattle breed supports breeders and researchers in the Atlantic coastal marshlands. Ruminants. 2 (2), pp. 173-187.

Enriquez, D., Barrera, K., Rivero, M. J., Merino, V. M., Teixeira, D. L. and Vargas-Bello-Perez, E. 2022. Effect of feeding lucerne and a mixed diet of oats and berseem clover as a source of fresh forage on ruminal characteristics and nitrogen use efficiency in dairy cows during the winter period. Ruminants. 2 (2), pp. 212-225.

Cooke, A. S., Mullan, S. M., Morten, C., Hockenhull, J., Lee, M. R. F., Cardenas, L. M. and Rivero, M. J. 2022. V-QBA vs QBA – How do video and live analysis compare for Qualitative Behaviour Assessment? Frontiers in veterinary science. 9, p. 832239.

Rivero, M. J. and Lee, M. R. F. 2022. A perspective on animal welfare of grazing ruminants and its relationship with sustainability. Animal Production Science. 62 (18), pp. 1379-1748.

Pena-Bermudez, Y. A., Vincenzi, R., Meo-Filho, P., Sakamoto, L. S., Lobo, R., Benetel, G., Lobo, A., Matos, C., Benetel, V., Lima, C. G., Berndt, A., Cardenas, L. M. and Bueno, I. C. S. 2022. Effect of Yerba Mate Extract as Feed Additive on Ruminal Fermentation and Methane Emissions in Beef Cattle. Animals. 12 (21), p. 2997.

Wu, L., Harris, P., Misselbrook, T. H. and Lee, M. R. F. 2022. Simulating grazing beef and sheep systems. Agricultural Systems. 195, p. 103307.

Cardenas, L. M., Olde, L., Loick, N., Griffith, B. A., Hill, T., Evans, J., Cowan, N., Segura, C., Sint, H. M., Harris, P., McCalmont, J., Zhu, S., Dobermann, A. and Lee, M. R. F. 2022. CO2 fluxes from three different temperate grazed pastures using Eddy covariance measurements. Science of the Total Environment. 831 (20 July), p. 154819.

McAuliffe, G., Takahashi, T., Beal, T., Huppertz, T., Leroy, F., Buttriss, J., Collins, A. L., Drewnowski, A., McLaren, S. J., Ortenzi, F., Van der Pols, J., Van Vliet, S. and Lee, M. R. F. 2022. Protein quality as a complementary functional unit in life cycle assessment (LCA). International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 28 (2), pp. 146-155.

Segura, C., Horrocks, C. A., Lopez-Aizpun, M., Blackwell, M. S. A., Darch, T., Hood, J., Le Cocq, K., McAuliffe, G., Lee, M. R. F. and Cardenas, L. M. 2023. Response of soil health indicators to dung, urine and mineral fertilizer application in temperate pastures. Journal of Environmental Management. 330, p. 117096.

Martin, G.B. 2022. Frontiers in sheep reproduction – making use of natural responses to environmental challenges to manage productivity. Animal Reproduction 19, e20220088.

2021

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M Jordana Rivero, Alex C O Evans, Alexandre Berndt, Andrew Cartmill, Andrew Dowsey, Anne Farruggia, Catherine Mignolet, Daniel Enriquez-Hidalgo, Dave Chadwick, Davy I McCracken, Dennis Busch, Fabiana Pereyra, Graeme B Martin, Gregg R Sanford, Helen Sheridan, Iain Wright, Laurent Brunet, Mark C Eisler, Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos, Pablo Rovira, Paul Harris, Paul Murphy, A Prysor Williams, Randall D Jackson, Rui Machado, Suraj P.T., Thomas Puech, Tommy M Boland, Walter Ayala, Michael R F Lee.  2021. Taking the steps toward sustainable livestock: our multidisciplinary global farm platform journey. Animal Frontiers 11(5), 52–58.

Elayadeth-Meethal, M., Veettil, A. T., Asaf, M., Pramod, S., Maloney, S. K., Martin, G. B., Rivero, M. J., Sejian, V., Naseef, P. P., Kuruniyan, M. S. and Lee, M. R. F. 2021. Comparative expression profiling and sequence characterization of ATP1A1 gene associated with heat tolerance in tropically adapted cattle. Animals. 11 (8), p. 2368

Lee, M. R. F., McAuliffe, G., Tweed, J. K. S., Griffith, B. A., Morgan, S., Rivero, M. J., Harris, P., Takahashi, T. and Cardenas, L. M. 2021. Nutritional value of suckler beef from temperate pasture systems. Animal. 15 (7), p. 100257.

Rivero, M. J., Grau, P., Mullan, S., Held, S. D. E., Stokes, J., Lee, M. R. F. and Cardenas, L. M. 2021. Factors affecting site use preference of grazing cattle studied from 2000 to 2020 through GPS tracking – A review. Sensors. 21 (8), p. 2696.

Pulley, S., Cardenas, L. M., Grau, P., Mullan, S., Rivero, M. J. and Collins, A. L. 2021. Does cattle and sheep grazing under best management significantly elevate sediment losses? Evidence from the North Wyke Farm Platform, UK. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 21, pp. 1875-1889.

Rivero, M. J., Lopez-Villalobos, N., Evans, A., Berndt, A., Cartmill, A., Neal, A. L., McLaren, A., Farruggia, A., Mignolet, C., Chadwick, D. R., Styles, D., McCracken, D., Busch, D., Martin, G. B., Fleming, H. R., Sheridan, H., Gibbons, J., Merbold, L., Eisler, M., Lambe, N., Rovira, P., Harris, P., Murphy, P., Vercoe, P. E., Williams, P., Machado, R., Takahashi, T., Puech, T., Boland, T., Ayala, W. and Lee, M. R. F. 2021. Key traits for ruminant livestock across diverse production systems in the context of climate change: perspectives from a global platform of research farms. Reproduction, Fertility and Development. 33 (2), pp. 1-19.

Jones, A. G., Takahashi, T., Fleming, H., Griffith, B. A., Harris, P. and Lee, M. R. F. 2021. Using a lamb’s early-life liveweight as a predictor of carcass quality. Animal. 15 (1), p. 100018.

Jones, A. G., Fleming, H., Griffith, B. A., Takahashi, T., Lee, M. R. F. and Harris, P. 2021. Data to identify key drivers of animal growth and carcass quality for temperate lowland sheep production systems. Data in Brief. 35, p. 106977.

Jones, A. G., Takahashi, T., Fleming, H., Griffith, B. A., Harris, P. and Lee, M. R. F. 2021. Quantifying the value of on-farm measurements to inform the selection of key performance indicators for livestock production systems. Scientific Reports. 11 (1), p. 16874.

Lee, M.R.F., Domingues, J.P., McAuliffe, G.A. et al. Nutrient provision capacity of alternative livestock farming systems per area of arable farmland required. Scientific Reports 11: 14975.

Jing Gao, Tilo Burghardt, William Andrew, Andrew W. Dowsey, Neill W. Campbell. 2021. Towards Self-Supervision for Video Identification of Individual Holstein-Friesian Cattle: The Cows2021 Dataset. arXiv:2105.01938

Andrew W, Gao J, Mullan S, Campbell N, Dowsey AW, Burghardt T. 2021. Visual identification of individual Holstein-Friesian cattle via deep metric learning. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 185, 106133

Gao, J., Burghardt, T., Andrew, W., Dowsey, A. W., & Campbell, N. W. 2021. Towards Self-Supervision for Video Identification of Individual Holstein-Friesian Cattle: The Cows2021 Dataset. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition – Workshop on Computer Vision for Animal Behavior Tracking and Modeling (CV4Animals).

2020

Publication Details

Pablo Rovira, Walter Ayala, José Terra, Fernando García-Préchac, Paul Harris, Michael R.F. Lee, M. Jordana Rivero. 2020. The ‘Palo a Pique’ Long-Term Research Platform: First 25 Years of a Crop–Livestock Experiment in Uruguay. Animals 10(3), 441

Paulo Méo-Filho, Alexandre Berndt, Cintia  R. Marcondes, André F. Pedroso, Leandro S. Sakamoto, Daniella F. V. Boas, Paulo H. M. Rodrigues, M. Jordana Rivero, Ives C. S. Bueno. 2020. Methane Emissions, Performance and Carcass Characteristics of Different Lines of Beef Steers Reared on Pasture and Finished in Feedlot. Animals 10(2), 303.

Siobhan Mullan, Surej J. Bunglavan, Elizabeth Rowe, David C. Barrett, Michael R. F. Lee, Deepa Ananth, John Tarlton. 2020. Welfare Challenges of Dairy Cows in India Identified Through On-Farm Observations. Animals 10(4), 586.

McAuliffe, G., Lopez, M., Blackwell, M. S. A., Castellano-Hinojosa, A., Darch, T., Evans, J., Horrocks, C. A., Le Cocq, K., Takahashi, T., Harris, P., Lee, M. R. F. and Cardenas, L. M. 2020. Elucidating three-way interactions between soil, pasture and animals that regulate nitrous oxide emissions from temperate grazing systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 300, p. 106978.

Lopez, M., Horrocks, C. A., Charteris, A., Marsden, K. A., Ciganda, V. S., Evans, J., Chadwick, D. R. and Cardenas, L. M. 2020. Meta-analysis of global livestock urine-derived nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils. Global Change Biology. 26 (4), pp. 2002-2013.

Wilkinson, JM, Lee, MRF, Rivero, MJ, Chamberlain, AT. Some challenges and opportunities for grazing dairy cows on temperate pastures. Grass Forage Sci. 2020; 75: 1–17.

2019

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Zhao, Z., Wang, M., Liu, S., Palmer, D., Shaw, R.J., Karlsson, J., Vercoe, P.E., Martin, G.B. & Greeff, J. 2019. Heritabilities of IgA and IgE activities against Teladorsagia and Trichostrongylus L3 larval antigens correlated with traits for faecal worm egg count, health and productivity in Merino sheep. Animal Production Science 59, 1792-1802. doi: 10.1071/AN18630

Amir, A.A., Kelly, J.M., Kleemann, D.O., Durmic, Z., Blache, D. & Martin, G.B. 2019. Extracts of forage plants affect the developmental competence of ovine oocytes in vitro. Animal Production Science 59, 1814-1819. doi: 10.1071/AN18170

Yan, G., Liu, S., Schlink, A.C., Flematti, G.R., Brodie, B.S., Bohman, B., Greeff, J.C., Vercoe, P.E., Hua, J. & Martin, G.B. 2019. Volatiles from Merino fleece evoke antennal and behavioural responses in the Australian sheep blow fly, Lucilia cuprina. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 33, 491-497. 10.1111/mve.12383

Fernandes, J., Blache, D., Maloney, S.K., Martin, G.B., Venus, B., Walker, F.R., Head, B. & Tilbrook, A.  2019. Addressing animal welfare through effective stakeholder networks. Agriculture 9, 132. 10.3390/agriculture9060132

Muhammed Elayadeth‐Meethal Aravindakshan Thazhathu Veettil Shane K. Maloney Nichola Hawkins Tom H. Misselbrook Veerasamy Sejian M. Jordana Rivero Michael R. F. Lee. 2018. Size does matter: Parallel evolution of adaptive thermal tolerance and body size facilitates adaptation to climate change in domestic cattle. Ecology and Evolution, 8, 10608 – 10620. doi: 10.1002/ece3.4550

Takahashi, T. G. A. McAuliffe, and M. R. F. Lee. Assessing the environmental impact of ruminant production systems. 2019. In: Assessing the environmental impact of agriculture, Bo P. Weidema (Ed.). Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited. ISBN-13: 9781786762283

Thomas, A. C., M. Bailey, M. R. F. Lee, A. Mead, B. Morales-Aza, R. Reynolds, B. Vipond, A. Finn & M. C. Eisler. 2019. Insights into Pasteurellaceae carriage dynamics in the nasal passages of healthy beef calves. Nature Scientific Reports, 9, 11943

RIVERO M.J., BALOCCHI O., MOSCOSO C., MEYER D., LEE M.R.F. 2019. Does the “high sugar” trait of perennial ryegrass cultivars express under temperate climate in Southern Chile? Grass and Forage Science doi:10.1111/gfs.12406

MAHDAVI A., MAHDAVI A., DARABIGHANE B., MEAD A., LEE M.R.F. Effects of soybean oil dietary supplementation of lactating dairy cows, on productive performance and milk composition: A meta-analysis.  Italian Journal of Animal Science, 18:1, 809-819.

Orr, R.J.; Griffith, B.A.; Rivero, M.J.; Lee, M.R.F. Livestock Performance for Sheep and Cattle Grazing Lowland Permanent Pasture: Benchmarking Potential of Forage-Based Systems. Agronomy 2019, 9, 101. /doi.org/10.3390/agronomy9020101

MCAULIFFE G.A., TAKAHASHI T., LEE M.R.F. 2019. Applications of nutritional functional units in commodity-level life cycle assessment (LCA) of agri-food systems. International Journal of LCA 25, 208–221 

Special Topic: Livestock production evolving to contribute to sustainable societies

Animal, Volume 12 – Issue 8 – August 2018

2018

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Livestock production evolving to contribute to sustainable societies
M. Gill, J. P. Gibson, M. R. F. Lee https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731118000861

Review: Animal health and sustainable global livestock systems
B. D. Perry, T. P. Robinson, D. C. Grace https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731118000630

Review: Dairy foods, red meat and processed meat in the diet: implications for health at key life stages
D. I. Givens https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731118000642

Review: Optimizing ruminant conversion of feed protein to human food protein
G. A. Broderick https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731117002592

Review: Use of human-edible animal feeds by ruminant livestock
J. M. Wilkinson, M. R. F. Lee https://doi.org/10.1017/S175173111700218X

Review: Feed demand landscape and implications of food-not feed strategy for food security and climate change
H. P. S. Makkar https://doi.org/10.1017/S175173111700324X

Closing the phosphorus cycle in a food system: insights from a modelling exercise
H. R. J. van Kernebeek, S. J. Oosting, M. K. van Ittersum, R. Ripoll-Bosch, I. J. M. de Boer
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731118001039

Roles of instrumented farm-scale trials in trade-off assessments of pasture-based ruminant production systems
T. Takahashi, P. Harris, M. S. A. Blackwell, L. M. Cardenas, A. L. Collins, J. A. J. Dungait, J. M. B. Hawkins, T. H. Misselbrook, G. A. McAuliffe, J. N. McFadzean, P. J. Murray, R. J. Orr, M. J. Rivero, L. Wu, M. R. F. Lee https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731118000502

2018

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BAI Z.., LEE M.R.F., LIN M., LEDGARD S., OENEMA O., VELTHOL G. L., MA W., GUO M., ZHANQING Z., WEI S., LI S., LIU X., HAVLIK P., LUO J., HU C., ZHANG F. 2018. Global environmental costs of China’s thirst for milk. Global Change Biology 24:2198–2211 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14047

BLACKWELL M.S.A., WILKINS R.J., JARVIS S.C., BEAUMONT D., CARDENAS L., CHADWICK D., COLLINS A., DUNGAIT J., GIBB M., HAYGARTH P.M., HOPKINS A., LEE M.R.F., MISSELBROOK T., MURRAY P.J., TALLOWIN J. 2018. Chapter Four – The Importance of Sustained Grassland and Environmental Research: A Case Study From North Wyke Research Station, UK, 1982–2017. Advances in Agronomy. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2018.01.004

ZHAOHAI B., LIN M., VELTHOF G.L. ZHUBIAO E., HAVLIK P., OENEMA O., LEE M.R.F., ZHANG F. 2018. China’s livestock transition: driving forces, impacts and consequences. Science Advances 4: eaar8534 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar8534

MUHAMMED E.M., ARAVINDAKSHAN T.V., MALONEY S.K., HAWKINS N., MISSELBROOK T.H., SEJIAN V. RIVERO H., LEE M.R.F. 2018. Size does matter: parallel evolution of adaptive tolerance to climate change and dwarfing in domestic cattle. Ecology and Evolution 8:10608–10620. doi: 10.1002/ece3.4550

RIVERO M.J., MCAULIFFE G.A., TAKAHASHI T., ELAYADETH-MEETHAL M., MISSELBROOK T., COFFEY M., WALL E., HARRIS P., LEE M.R.F. 2018. Steps for selecting sustainable beef cattle in grazing systems. WCGALP. Auckland, New Zealand, February. Pp 864

MCAULIFFE G., TAKAHASHI T., WHITE S., HALLETT K., LEE M.R.F. 2018. Effects of farm-scale grasslands management strategies on nutritional quality of pasture-reared beef. British Society of Animal Science. Pp72.

TAKAHASHI T, RUBIO V, MEAD A, CARDENAS L, GLENDINING M, LATTANZI F, MACDONALD A, MISSELBROOK T, TERRA J, LEE M. 2018. Novel method to evaluate farming systems based on long-term data from field trials. Association of Applied Biologist – Long Term Experiments Conference, 21st May, Harpenden. Pp 50.

HARRIS P., TAKAHASHI T, GRIFFITH B., HUNT J., HAWKINS J., RIVERO J., SINT H., LEE M. 2018. The North Wyke Farm Platform. Association of Applied Biologist – Long Term Experiments Conference, 21st May, Harpenden. Pp 51.

WILKINSON J.M., LEE M.R.F. 2018. Use of human-edible animal feeds by ruminant livestock. Animal 12: 1733-1743.

GILL M., LEE M.R.F., GIBSON J., 2018. Editorial: Livestock production evolving to contribute to sustainable societies. Animal 12: 1696-1698

BAI Z.., LEE M.R.F., LIN M., LEDGARD S., OENEMA O., VELTHOL G. L., MA W., GUO M., ZHANQING Z., WEI S., LI S., LIU X., HAVLIK P., LUO J., HU C., ZHANG F. 2018. Global environmental costs of China’s thirst for milk.  Global Change Biology. 24: 2198–2211

BAI Z., LIN M., VELTHOF G.L. ZHUBIAO E., HAVLIK P., OENEMA O., LEE M.R.F., ZHANG F. 2018. China’s livestock transition: driving forces, impacts and consequences. Science Advances 4: eaar8534

MCAULIFFE G.A., TAKAHASHI T., LEE M.R.F. 2018. Framework for life cycle assessment of livestock production systems to account for the nutritional quality of final products. Food and Energy Security 7:e00143.

MCAULIFFE, G. A., TAKAHASHI, T. ORR, R. J., HARRIS, P., LEE, M. R. F. 2018. Data to calculate emissions intensity for individual beef cattle reared on pasture-based production systems. Data in Brief. 17: 570-574 5

TAKAHASHI, T., HARRIS, P., COOKE, A.S., RIVERO, M.J., LEE, M.R.F. 2018. Improving the farm-scale livestock production efficiency through field-scale soil measurements. European Federation of Animal Science, Dubrovnik, August 2018, Pp 422.

2017

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MCAULIFFE G.A., TAKAHASHI T., ORR R., HARRIS P. LEE M.R.F. 2017. Distributions of global warming potential for individual cattle reared on three pasture-based beef production systems. Journal of Cleaner Production. 171: 1672-1680.

LIU Y., LI Y, HARRIS P., CARDENAS L. M, DUNN R., SINT H., MURRAY P. J, LEE M.R.F., WU L. 2017. Accounting for spatial variation in soil moisture, water run-off, N₂O emissions and herbage biomass simulations when applying the SPACSYS model to a permanent grassland system. Geoderma 315: 49-58

DARABIGHANE B., MAHDAVI A., MAHDAVI A., LEE M.R.F. 2017. A meta-analysis of supplementing lactating dairy cow diet with soybean oil on milk production, fat and linoleic acid in milk. British Society of Animal Science. Pp 74.

TAKAHASHI T, LEE MRF. 2017. Modelling the food-feed competition for agricultural land under heterogeneous soil fertility. British Society of Animal Science. Pp 129.

TAKAHASHI T., CARDENAS L.M., HARIS P. MEAD A., LEE M.R.F. 2017. Novel metrics to evaluate livestock farming systems based on dynamic flows of nutrients. European Association of Animal Production. Tallinn. Pp 212

TAKAHASHI T., HARIS P. ORR R.J., HAWKINS J., RIVERO-VIERA J., LEE M.R.F. 2017. Downscaling whole-farm measures of livestock production efficiency to the individual field level. European Association of Animal Production. Tallinn. Pp 168

EISLER M.C., LEE M.R.F., MARTIN G.B., ANANTH D., CHAGUNDA M.G.G., DUNGAIT J.A.J., GODDARD E., GREATHEAD H., LIU J., LOPEZ-VILLALOBOS N., MATHEW S., MONTOSSI F., MWAKASUNGULA S., RICE C.W., TARLTON J.F., VINOD V.K., VAN SUAN R., WINTER M., WRIGHT I. 2017. The global farm platform initiative – towards sustainable livestock systems. European Association of Animal Production. Tallinn. Pp 421

LEE M.R.F. 2017. Steps to sustainable ruminant livestock production. ASA, CSSA and SSSA International meeting, Tampa, Florida, USA, 22nd – 25th October. 40-1.

CARDENAS L., TAKAHASHI T., HARRIS P., MEAD A. LEE M. 2017. Redefining sustainability: novel metrics to evaluate farming systems based on the dynamic flow of nutrients. Aspects of Applied Biology, 136, Sustainable Intensification, 143-144

HARRIS P. A, TAKAHASHI T., BLACKWELL M.S.A., CARDENAS L.M., COLLINS A.L., DUNGAIT J.A.J., EISLER M.C., HAWKINS J., MISSELBROOK T., MCAULIFFE G., MCFADZEAN J., MURRAY P.J., ORR R.J., RIVERO-VIERA J., WU L., LEE M.R.F. 2017. A farm platform approach to optimizing temperate grazing-livestock systems: metrics for trade-off assessments and future innovations. EGU. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol 19.

HARRIS P., TAKAHASHI T., LEE M.R.F. 2017. Visualisation of uncertainty for the trade-off triangle used in sustainable agriculture. EGU. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol 19.

LI Y., LIU Y., HARRIS P., SINT H., MURRAY P., LEE M.R.F., WU L. 2017. Assessments of soil, water, carbon and nitrogen cycling in reseeded grassland on North Wyke Farm Platform using a process-based model. Science of the Total Environment 603-604: 27-37

Steps to Sustainable Livestock International Conference 2016

Bristol, UK. 12-15 January 2016

2016

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More than 120 Abstracts

2016

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ORR R.J., EYLES, C.J., BLACKWELL M.S.A., CARDENAS L.M., COLLINS A.L., CRAWFORD J., DUNGAIT J., GOULDING K., GRITTITH B., GURR S., HARRIS P., HAWKINS J.M.B., MISSELBROOK T., MURRAY P.J., RAWLINGS C., SHEPHERD A., TAKAHASHI T., WU L., LEE M.R.F. 2016. The UK North Wyke Farm Platform: A Systems approach to study the impact and value of temperate grassland farming. European Journal of Soil Science 64: 374-385.

LEE M.R.F., DARWENT N. 2016. Grazing towards sustainability. Steps to Sustainable Livestock International Conference, 12th – 15th January, Bristol, UK. Pp 7.

MCFADZEAN J., KOGE J., BIRNHOLZ C., PAUL B. K., NOTENBAERT A., VAN DER GIEZEN M., LEE M.R.F., DUNGAIT J. 2016. Developing tools to quantify sustainability of intensive and extensive ruminant farming systems in Sub-Saharan East Africa. Steps to Sustainable Livestock International Conference, 12th – 15th January, Bristol, UK. Pp 50.

MACFADZEAN J., LEE M.R.F., DUNGAIT J. 2016. Developing tools to quantify sustainability of intensive and extensive ruminant farming systems in sub-Saharan east Africa. British Society of Animal Science. Pp 59.

LEE M.R.F., EISLER M.C. 2016. Steps to sustainable livestock – The global farm platform. British Society of Animal Science. Pp 170.

HARRIS P., BRUNSDON C., LEE M., MURRAY P. 2016. Visualizing uncertainties with the North Wyke Farm Platform data sets. Geophysical Research Abstracts 18: EGU2016-17395.

TAKAHASHI T., LEE M.R.F. 2016. Beyond ad hoc debates: a general equilibrium model incorporating the food–feed competition for agricultural land. International Rangeland Congress, Alberta. Pp 390-392.

HARRIS P., BRUNSDON C., COMBER A., SINT H., ORR R., LEE M., MURRAY P. 2016. Modelling, interpreting and visualizing uncertainties for the North Wyke Farm Platform baseline field surveys. Spatial accuracy Conference.

MCAULIFFE G., TAKAHASHI T., EISLER M., HARRIS P., ORR R., LEE M.R.F. 2016. Carbon footprint analysis of pasture based beef production systems based on rich primary data at the North Wyke Farm Platform in Devon, UK. LCA Conference, Dublin.

2015

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RICE C., ASHOK B., COLLIER S., DUNGAIT J., EISLER M., JAHN M., LIU J., LEE M. 2015. Global farm platforms for sustainable ruminant livestock production. Climate Smart Agriculture Conference, Montpellier, France. Climate Smart Livestock. Pp 184

HARRIS P., DUNGAIT J., GRIFFITH B., SHEPHERD A., SINT H., BLACKWELL M., CARDENAS L., COLLINS A., LEE M., ORR R. 2015. The North Wyke Farm Platform, a UK national capability for research into sustainability of temperate agricultural grassland management: progress and developments. Geophysical Research Abstracts. 17: 15883.

LEE M.R.F., RICE C., ASHOK B., COLLIER S., DUNGAIT J., JAHN M., LIU J., EISLER M.C. 2015. Global farm platforms for sustainable ruminant livestock production. National Institutes of Bioscience Conference, Harpenden, UK, 15-16th June. pp 27-28.

LEE M.R.F., MARTIN G., AYALA, W., MONTOSSI F., ASHOK B., SANFORD G.R., EISLER M.C. 2015. Steps towards sustainable livestock – the balance between yield and impact. 3rd International Symposium on Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems, Brasilia, Brazil, 14th – 17th July. Pp 24

LEE M.R.F., MARTIN G., AYALA, W., MONTOSSI F., ASHOK B., SANFORD G.R., EISLER M.C. 2015. Steps towards sustainable livestock – the balance between yield and impact. 3rd International workshop on sustainable farming systems, Kochi, Kerala, India, 19th- 20th August 2015. Pp 5.

2014

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EISLER M.C., LEE M.R.F., TARLTON J.F., MARTIN G.B., BEDDINGTON J., DUNGAIT J.A.J., GREATHEAD H., LIU J., MATHEW S., MILLER H., MISSELBROOK T., MURRAY P., VINOD V.K., VAN SAUN R., WINTER M. 2014. Steps to sustainable livestock. Nature 507: 32-34

EISLER M.C., LEE M.R.F., MARTIN G.B. 2014. When less means more on dairy farms. Nature 512: 371. https://doi.org/10.1038/512371b

MARTIN G.B., ROSALES NIETO C., LEE M.R.F., TARLTON J.F., EISLER, M.C. 2014. Industria ganadera – Puede ayudar a alimentar al mundo sin destruir el pleneta. 7th Curso Internacional – Innovaciones en Reproduccion Animal. pp 7-20.

LEE M.R.F., MARTIN G.B., TARLTON J.F., EISLER M.C. 2014. Towards sustainable and responsible production of livestock. European Association of Animal Production. Copenhagen. Pp 278

THOMPSON J.B., ORR R.J., DUNGAIT J., MURRAY P., LEE M.R.F. 2014. Beef productivity on the North Wyke Farm Platform in two baseline years. Proceedings of the European Grassland Federation. Pp 644-646