Livestock have long been integral to food production systems, often not by choice but by
need. While our knowledge of livestock greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation has …

Decision support systems (DSS) have long been used in research, service provision and
extension. Despite the diversity of technological applications in which past agricultural DSS …

Climate change (CC) in central China will change seasonal patterns of agricultural
production through increasingly frequent extreme climatic events (ECEs). Breeding climate …

Climate change will drive increased frequencies of extreme climatic events. Despite this,
there is little scholarly information on the extent to which waterlogging caused by extreme …

In the last decade, several countries have included feed efficiency (as residual feed intake;
RFI) in their breeding goal. Recent studies showed that RFI is favorably correlated with …

Background Soil N mineralisation is the process by which organic N is converted into plant-
available forms, while soil N immobilisation is the transformation of inorganic soil N into …

Enabling crop flowering within an optimal calendar window minimises long-term risk of
abiotic stress exposure, improving prospects for attaining potential yield. Here, we define the …

Agricultural land-use change is a dynamic process that varies as a function of social,
economic and environmental factors spanning from the local to the global scale. The …

Leucaena leucocephala (leucaena) is a perennial legume shrub of subtropical regions that
has forage characteristics favourable for livestock production, often delivering ruminant …

While society increasingly demands emissions abatement from the livestock sector, farmers
are concurrently being forced to adapt to an existential climate crisis. Here, we examine how …