Direct marketing of beef in organic suckler cattle farms: economic results and impact on breeding system management

In response to the bovine crises of 1996 and 2000, and also to the poorly structured organic beef market chain, direct marketing of beef to consumers by the farmer has developed. We studied the impact of this marketing system on economic performance and farming practices. The results show that direct marketing can generate added value, despite the extra costs. Farmers have made the necessary changes to their practices, and have adapted their herd management. Through strengthening the link between the farm and the outside world, direct marketing offers an alternative to the expansion of farms, making it possible to support a greater workforce with the same structure

Farm meat marketing in cattle suckler breeding : Economic results and impacts on breeding system management

In response to the bovine crises of 1996 and 2000, and also to the poorly structuredorganic beef market chain, direct marketing of beef to consumers by the farmer hasdeveloped. We studied the impact of this marketing system on economic performanceand farming practices. The results show that direct marketing can generate addedvalue, despite the extra costs. Farmers have made the necessary changes to theirpractices, and have adapted their herd management. Through strengthening the linkbetween the farm and the outside world, direct marketing offers an alternative to theexpansion of farms, making it possible to support a greater workforce with the samestructure

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Farm meat marketing in cattle suckler breeding : Economic results and impacts on breeding system management

In response to the bovine crises of 1996 and 2000, and also to the poorly structuredorganic beef market chain, direct marketing of beef to consumers by the farmer hasdeveloped. We studied the impact of this marketing system on economic performanceand farming practices. The results show that direct marketing can generate addedvalue, despite the extra costs. Farmers have made the necessary changes to theirpractices, and have adapted their herd management. Through strengthening the linkbetween the farm and the outside world, direct marketing offers an alternative to theexpansion of farms, making it possible to support a greater workforce with the samestructure

Direct marketing of beef in organic suckler cattle farms: economic results and impact on breeding system management

 In response to the bovine crises of 1996 and 2000, and also to the poorly structured organic beef market chain, direct marketing of beef to consumers by the farmer has developed. We studied the impact of this marketing system on economic performance and farming practices. The results show that direct marketing can generate added value, despite the extra costs. Farmers have made the necessary changes to their practices, and have adapted their herd management. Through strengthening the link between the farm and the outside world, direct marketing offers an alternative to the expansion of farms, making it possible to support a greater workforce with the same structure

Prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides and autism spectrum disorders in 11-year-old children in the French PELAGIE cohort

International audienceBackground: Organophosphate (OP) pesticides act by inhibiting acetylcholinesterase activity at synaptic junctions and have already been linked with deleterious effects on neurodevelopment, including autism spectrum disorders (ASD).Objectives: To investigate the association of prenatal exposure to OP pesticides with traits related to ASD in 11-year-old children.Methods: The "Childhood Autism Spectrum Test" (CAST) parent questionnaire was used to screen for autistic traits in 792 children from the French PELAGIE cohort. Prenatal maternal urine samples were collected 80%), terbufos and its metabolites least often (<10%). No association with ASD was found for DAP, terbufos or its metabolites. Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) increased with maternal urinary diazinon concentrations, from 1.11 (95% CI: 0.87-1.42) to 1.17 (95% CI: 0.94-1.46). Higher CAST scores were statistically significantly associated with the maternal urine samples in which chlorpyrifos or two of its metabolites (chlorpyrifos-oxon and 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol) were detected. The IRR for exposure to chlorpyrifos or chlorpyrifos-oxon was 1.27 (95%CI: 1.05-1.52) among all children, and 1.39 (95%CI: 1.07-1.82) among boys.Conclusion: These findings suggest an increase in autistic traits among 11-year-old children in association with prenatal maternal exposure to chlorpyrifos and possibly diazinon. These associations were previously suspected in the literature, in particular for chlorpyrifos. Further work establishing the causal mechanisms behind these risk association is needed

Vous avez dit bizarre ? Trésors insolites des Archives départementales des Vosges: Catalogue de l'exposition présentée aux Archives départementales des Vosges (Epinal, 20 septembre-20 décembre 2008)

Epinal, Conseil général des VosgesCatalogue d'exposition de documents insolites conservées aux Archives départementales des Vosges : reliques, objets, remploi de manuscrits médiévaux, etc

CREMMA WIKIPEDIA

The CREMMA-Wikipedia project aims at creating a collection of ground truth to train HTR models on contemporary French handwriting. Each image represents an exerpt from a randomly selected Wikipedia page, copied by hand by volunteers. We then took care of the alignment between the handwritten portion and the original text, also present on the image.If you use this dataset, please cite it using the metadata from this file

CREMMA WIKIPEDIA

The CREMMA-Wikipedia project aims at creating a collection of ground truth to train HTR models on contemporary French handwriting. Each image represents an exerpt from a randomly selected Wikipedia page, copied by hand by volunteers. We then took care of the alignment between the handwritten portion and the original text, also present on the image.If you use this dataset, please cite it using the metadata from this file