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Invitación a participar del número especial
Estimados, los invitamos a participar del número especial: “Recent advances and emerging trends of dairy production in Uruguay: The contribution of science to past and current challenges” editado por Pablo Chilibroste, Mariana Carriquiry, Santiago Fariña, Ana Meikle, Fernando A. Lattanzi.
Key dates:
Deadline for abstract submission (optional): 28/02/23
Deadline for author notification: 15/3/2023
Deadline for manuscript submission: 30/04/2023
Special Issue on “Recent advances and emerging trends of dairy production in Uruguay: The contribution of science to past and current challenges”
Editorial committee:
Pablo Chilibroste
Departamento de Producción Animal y Pasturas, Facultad de Agronomía (Fagro), Universidad de la República (UdelaR); email: pchili@fagro.edu.uy
Mariana Carriquiry
Departamento de Producción Animal y Pasturas, Facultad de Agronomía (Fagro), Universidad de la República (UdelaR); email: mariana.carriquiry@gmail.com
Santiago Fariña
Programa Nacional de Investigación en Producción de Leche, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA); email: sfarina@inia.org.uy
Ana Meikle
Laboratorio de Endocrinología y Metabolismo Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria (FVet), Universidad de la República (UdelaR); email: meikleana@gmail.com
Fernando A. Lattanzi
Área de Pasturas y Forrajes, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA); email: flattanzi@inia.org.uy
Key dates:
Deadline for abstract submission (optional): 28/02/23
Deadline for author notification: 15/3/2023
Deadline for manuscript submission: 30/04/2023
Contents
The Uruguayan dairy industry has expanded considerably during the past 35 years with a mean growth rate of ~4% year-1, which contrasts favorably with the 2.6% year-1 growth rate of the global economy. This sustained growth, that started in the 1980´s when the industry shifted from the domestic to the international market, was driven by primary production business and farming strategies as well as scaled-up and improved industrial processing. The main strategy has been a sustained intensification of productivity (liters ha-1), underpinned by concurrent increases in both individual milk production and stocking rate (i.e. cows per land area), that effectively kept and even increased overall competitiveness. In turn, several specific factors influenced such outcome, from variable dietary supplementation with conserved forages and concentrates as grazing conditions change throughout the year, to better designed sequences of annual and perennial crops used for direct grazing or conservation, to enhanced management of rotational grazing systems, to continuous improvement of the genetic merit of the national herd. . In addition, farming intensification can play a role, both increasing or mitigating the environmental burden of milk production on a global or local scale. On the other hand, the pressure for milk production, increased stocking rates and large-scale management may increase the risk factors that trigger the peripartum diseases and consequently impair reproductive performance and animal welfare.
This Special Issue on “Recent advances and emerging trends of dairy production in Uruguay: the contribution of science to past and current challenges” of the journal Agrociencia Uruguay (http://agrocienciauruguay.uy/index.php/agrociencia) is designed to highlight the contribution of science to the development of the dairy sector in Uruguay.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
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Dairy production systems
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Feeding strategies and management.
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Animal health and reproduction.
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Energy and protein metabolism
Manuscript submission information
Authors are invited to send a title and an abstract up to 300 words long to the Guest Editors and agrociencia@fagro.edu.uy for a pre-check (optional but recommended). Full manuscripts should be submitted by the deadline to agrociencia@fagro.edu.uy. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts will undergo a thorough double-blind peer-review process. Please, use the journal template to submit your manuscript. Submitted papers can be written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese. English is highly recommended. Authors may use Agrociencia Uruguay´s translation service (USD 200 or USD 156 for Uruguayan authors) prior to publication. Accepted papers will be published altogether during the second semester of 2023. The publication of the article is free of charge (APC free).
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Estimados, los invitamos a participar del número especial: “Advances in Water in Agroscience”.
Deadline for abstract submission (optional): 01/12/2022
Abstract authors notification: 15/12/2022
Deadline for manuscript submission: 30/04/2023
Angela Gorgoglione
Instituto de Mecánica de los Fluidos e Ingeniería Ambiental (IMFIA), Facultad de Ingeniería (FIng), Universidad de la República (UdelaR); email: agorgoglione@fing.edu.uy
Lucía Puppo
Departamento de Suelos y Aguas, Facultad de Agronomía (FAgro), Universidad de la República (UdelaR); email: lpuppo@fagro.edu.uy
Pablo Gamazo
Departamento del Agua, CENUR Litoral Norte, Universidad de la República (UdelaR); email: gamazo@unorte.edu.uy
Claudio García
Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA); email: cgarcia@inia.org.uy
Alvaro Otero
Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA); email: aotero@inia.org.uy
Key dates:
Deadline for abstract submission (optional): 01/12/2022
Abstract authors notification: 15/12/2022
Deadline for manuscript submission: 30/04/2023
Contents
Worldwide, water is essential for maintaining adequate agricultural production and a sustainable environment for the human population and other animals, plants, and microbes. However, the intensification of anthropogenic activities, the occurrence of climate variability, and the presence of environmental issues are still threatening the quantity and quality of freshwater. Therefore, integrated water management is critical for the sustainable development of a region.
This Special Issue on “Advances in Water in Agroscience” of the journal Agrociencia Uruguay (http://agrocienciauruguay.uy/index.php/agrociencia) is designed to draw attention to new concepts, approaches, methodologies, and novel applications that aim at improving sustainable and integrated water resource management.
Studies that consider different temporal and spatial scales are welcome.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Climate variability
• impacts of climate change
• floods and droughts prediction and management
• extreme-event-risk assessment, mitigation, and adaptation measures
• flood recovery and resiliency
• yield response to irrigation dose
• techniques and guidelines for irrigation management
• water productivity of different crops
• irrigation performance measures. Application Efficiency and Uniformity
• crop evapotranspiration and crop coefficient determination
• sustainability assessment of irrigated agricultural systems
• yield response to regulated deficit irrigation
• irrigation management in greenhouse crops
• fertigation
• cost-benefit-analysis of irrigation systems
3. Integrated catchment management
• sensors, monitoring, and modeling
• instrumentation, experimental facilities, and field experiments
• watershed erosion process and soil conservation
• land-use change and management
• conservation and restoration: nature-based solutions
• cooperation, governance of water and transboundary catchments
• conflict resolution and stakeholder participation in water management
4. Water quality and environmental sustainability
• sensors, monitoring, and modeling
• instrumentation, experimental facilities, and field experiments
• river and sediment management
• ecohydraulics and environmental flow
• reservoir and lagoons
• coast, estuaries, and seas
• human-water relationship
Manuscript submission information
Authors are invited to send a title and short abstract (about 100 - 300 words) to the Guest Editors and agrociencia@fagro.edu.uy for a pre-check (optional but reccommended). Full manuscripts should be submitted by the deadline to agrociencia@fagro.edu.uy. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. Please, use the journal template to submit your manuscript. Submitted papers can be written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese. English is highly recommended. Authors may use Agrociencia Uruguay´s translation service (USD 200 or USD 156 for Uruguayan authors) prior to publication. Accepted papers will be published altogether during the second semester of 2023. The publication of the article is free of charge (APC free).
