S. J. Oosting

Publication List Details

Period

1988 - 2008

Number

92

Co-Authors

Multipurpose fodder trees in the Ethiopian highlands: farmers preference and relationship of indiginous knowledge of feed value with laboratory indicators (2008)

Mekoya, A., Oosting, S.J., Fernandez-Rivera, S.

In the tropics, numerous organizations have promoted multipurpose fodder trees (MPFT) with an emphasis on exotic species. These species have generally been selected and recommended by the research...

Defining sustainability as a social-cultural concept: Citizen panels visiting dairy farms in the Netherlands (2008)

Boogaard, B.K., Oosting, S.J., Bock, B.B.

The important role of values is very evident when it comes to citizens' concept of sustainability. The present paper had the objective to define sustainability as a socio-cultural concept for...

Farmers' perceptions about exotic multipurpose fodder trees and constraints to their adoption (2008)

Mekoya, A., Oosting, S.J., Fernandez-Rivera, S.

Many organizations in Ethiopia have for many years promoted exotic multipurpose fodder trees (EMPFT) for livestock feed and soil improvement. Despite the apparent benefits, the number of farmers...

Feed resources, livestock production and soil carbon dynamics in Teghane, Northern Highlands of Ethiopia (2007)

Abegaz Yimer, A., Oosting, S.J.

In the Northern Highlands of Ethiopia, integrated crop-livestock production within smallholder farms is the dominant form of agricultural production. Feed availability and quality are serious...

Elements of societal perception of farm animal welfare: A quantitative study in the Netherlands (2006)

Boogaard, B.K., Oosting, S.J., Bock, B.B.

To study societal perception of animal welfare in The Netherlands and to search for intervention possibilities to influence this perception, 1074 randomly selected Dutch respondents completed a...

Dairy farming in the Netherlands: challenged by demands for ecological and societal sustainability (2004)

Oosting, S.J.

Agricultural land in the Netherlands is predominantly used for dairy farming. Starting centuries ago farmers specialised, intensified and strived for scale increase in order to make a high quality...

Foot and Mouth Disease. New values, innovative research agendas and policies (2004)

Braker, M.J.E., Kieft, H., Vogelzang, T.A., Oosting, S.J.

A Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak is not by definition similar to a Foot and Mouth Disease crisis. Why then did the 2001 outbreak result in a crisis situation in the Netherlands? It was not because...

Grain and straw for whole plant: implications for crop management and genetic improvement strategies (2004)

Schiere, J.B., Joshi, A.L., Seetharam, A., Oosting, S.J., Goodchild, A.V., Deinum, B., ...

Straws and stovers are often called `by-products¿ of grain production even though they are increasingly important, e.g. for animal feed, thatching, soil improvement, mushroom production and...

Effect of a lactoperoxydase system and lactoferrin, added to a milk replacer diet, on severity of diarrhoea, intestinal morphology and microbiology of digesta and faeces in young calves (2000)

Oosting, S.J., Verstegen, M.W.A.

The objective of the present study was to determine the effects of the combination of a lactoperoxidase system (LP-s) and lactoferrin (LF) added to a milk replacer diet on severity of diarrhoea, the...

Ammonia treatment of wheat straw. 1. Voluntary intake, chewing behaviour, rumen pool size and turnover and partition of digestion along the gastro-intestinal tract of sheep (1993)

J. Van Bruchem, S.J. Oosting, C.P. Leffering

Intake and digestion and rate of passage kinetics were studied in 6 wether sheep fed on ammoniated wheat straw (AWS) plus pelleted sugarbeet pulp, untreated wheat straw plus sugarbeet pulp, and...

Ammonia treatment of wheat straw. 2? Efficiency of microbial protein synthesis, rumen microbial protein pool size and turnover, and small intestinal protein digestion in sheep (1993)

S.J. Oosting, T.C. Viets, J. Van Bruchem

Ammonia-treated wheat straw (AWS) was compared with untreated wheat straw (UWS) and untreated wheat straw supplemented with urea (SWS) in an experiment with 6 wether sheep. Microbial protein...

Ammonia treatment of wheat straw. 1. Voluntary intake, chewing behaviour, rumen pool size and turnover and partition of digestion along the gastro-intestinal tract of sheep (1993)

J. Van Bruchem, S.J. Oosting, C.P. Leffering

Intake and digestion and rate of passage kinetics were studied in 6 wether sheep fed on ammoniated wheat straw (AWS) plus pelleted sugarbeet pulp, untreated wheat straw plus sugarbeet pulp, and...

Ammonia treatment of wheat straw. 2? Efficiency of microbial protein synthesis, rumen microbial protein pool size and turnover, and small intestinal protein digestion in sheep (1993)

S.J. Oosting, T.C. Viets, J. Van Bruchem

Ammonia-treated wheat straw (AWS) was compared with untreated wheat straw (UWS) and untreated wheat straw supplemented with urea (SWS) in an experiment with 6 wether sheep. Microbial protein...

Ammonia treatment of wheat straw. 1. Voluntary intake, chewing behaviour, rumen pool size and turnover and partition of digestion along the gastrointestinal tract of sheep. (1993)

Oosting, S.J., Leffering, C.P.

Intake and digestion and rate of passage kinetics were studied in 6 wether sheep fed on ammoniated wheat straw (AWS) plus pelleted sugarbeet pulp, untreated wheat straw plus sugarbeet pulp, and...

Ammonia treatment of wheat straw. 2. Efficiency of microbial protein synthesis, rumen microbial protein pool size and turnover, and small intestinal protein digestion in sheep. (1993)

Oosting, S.J., Viets, T.C.

Ammonia-treated wheat straw (AWS) was compared with untreated wheat straw (UWS) and untreated wheat straw supplemented with urea (SWS) in an experiment with 6 wether sheep. Microbial protein...