Home Investigations On The Effect Of Grazing Intensity On The Transfer Of Radionuclides To Cow's Milk -...

Reference URL

Add tags

Comment

Rate

Save to favorites

To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed the entire object, paste this HTML in website

To link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed this page, paste this HTML in website

Investigations On The Effect Of Grazing Intensity On The Transfer Of Radionuclides To Cow's Milk

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

Submit

Cancel

...

Rating
Title	Investigations On The Effect Of Grazing Intensity On The Transfer Of Radionuclides To Cow's Milk
Description	After the Chernobyl nuclear accident studies were done to determine the effects of radionuclides (particularly radiocaesium, radioiodine, and radiostrontium) on humans. This study however looks at the influence of the grazing intensity and grazing regime on the transfer of radiocaesium from vegetation to milk under different grazing regimes.
Abstract	For these investigations two farms were chosen where already measurements have been performed in the consequence of the Chernobyl accident. Farm A (Arnhofen) carries out a rotational grazing regime with 4 grazed pastures which is the more commonly used farm practice in Bavaria, farm B (Kleinhohenkirchen) practices a continuous grazing regime with one grazed pasture only. In farm B a tenfold lower Cs-137 activity concentration was observed in milk though activity concentrations in soil and pasture grass were the same as that at farm A, indicating the same transfer rate soil-plant at both locations. Grazing intensity in combination with grazing regime may influence Cs-137 milk concentrations, but not vegetation concentrations. Reasons for this finding may be uptake with more soil particles under a higher grazing pressure preventing soluble radiocaesium from uptake through the GUT and consequence milk transfer. It could be shown under normal agricultural conditions that with a higher grazing pressure lower activity concentrations in milk (in this case a factor of about 2 to 3) were obtained. Therefore changing stock density in combination with a continuous grazing regime on a given pasture after a major nuclear accident can be considered as a possible countermeasure which can be easily applied.
Subject	Radioactive contamination of milk Grazing -- Management Dairy cows -- Feeding and feeds
Creator	Schotola, C. Crout, N. M. J. Absalom, J.
Publisher	Made available by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library
Language	en
Rights	This is a government document and may be used without restriction.
Date Digital	2007-11-07
Material Type	Reports Government documents Electronic books
Type	Text
Format	Text/pdf
Conversion Specifications	Pdf file uploaded from USU Government Documents Collection.
Identifier	DE97762262.pdf
Search Date	1997-03

Find results with:

Searching collections:

Home Investigations On The Effect Of Grazing Intensity On The Transfer Of Radionuclides To Cow's Milk -...

Investigations On The Effect Of Grazing Intensity On The Transfer Of Radionuclides To Cow's Milk

Object Description

Description

Tags

Comments

Investigations On The Effect Of Grazing Intensity On The...

Investigations On The Effect Of Grazing Intensity On The...

	All
	Pages Enter page numbers or page ranges separated by commas. For example: 1,3,5-12

Find results with:

Searching collections:

Home Investigations On The Effect Of Grazing Intensity On The Transfer Of Radionuclides To Cow's Milk -...

Investigations On The Effect Of Grazing Intensity On The Transfer Of Radionuclides To Cow's Milk

Investigations On The Effect Of Grazing Intensity On The Transfer Of Radionuclides To Cow's Milk - Page 1

Object Description

Description

Tags

Comments

Investigations On The Effect Of Grazing Intensity On The...

Investigations On The Effect Of Grazing Intensity On The...