Existing data on animal health and welfare in organic livestock production systems in the
European Community countries are reviewed in the light of the demands and challenges of …

Collectively, nematode parasites of domestic ruminants continue to pose the greatest
disease problem in grazing livestock systems worldwide, despite the powerful and extensive …

Preparations derived from plants were the original therapeutic interventions used by man to
control diseases (including parasites), both within humans and livestock. Development of …

This article discusses animal welfare in organic farming systems in relation to values and
aims in organic farming. It sums up experiences from a 4-year interdisciplinary project. An …

Organic standards aim at good livestock health and welfare. A literature search on organic
animal health and welfare was performed in October–November 2001 to investigate how …

The use of anthelmintics is strongly limited in organic farming. This may induce a change in
the intensity (no of worms) and diversity (proportions of species) of helminth infection …

A three-year grazing experiment (1998–2000) was conducted with first-season grazing
cattle (FSGC) on improved pastures in central-eastern Sweden. Comparison was made …

The demand for organically-grown produce is increasing worldwide, with one of the drivers
being an expectation among consumers that animals have been farmed to a high standard …

The objective of this randomised pairwise survey was to compare the regional distribution of
antibody levels against the three most important helminth infections in organic and …

A questionnaire was sent to 1500 randomly selected dairy herds in Sweden, asking for
general information about the herds, including routines from birth to first calving and also …