Insegnamento MANAGEMENT OF EXTENSIVE FARMING SYSTEMS AND SUSTAINABILITY
| Nome del corso di laurea | Scienze zootecniche |
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| Codice insegnamento | A005968 |
| Curriculum | Comune a tutti i curricula |
| Docente responsabile | Cesare Castellini |
| CFU | 12 |
| Regolamento | Coorte 2025 |
| Erogato | Erogato nel 2026/27 |
| Erogato altro regolamento | |
| Anno | 2 |
| Periodo | Primo Semestre |
| Tipo insegnamento | Opzionale (Optional) |
| Tipo attività | Attività formativa integrata |
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EXTENSIVE REARING SYSTEM OF NON RUMINANT SPECIES
| Codice | A005969 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Docente responsabile | Cesare Castellini |
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| Attività | Caratterizzante |
| Ambito | Discipline agro-zootecniche, delle produzioni animali, e veterinarie |
| Settore | AGR/20 |
| Tipo insegnamento | Opzionale (Optional) |
| Lingua insegnamento | INGLESE |
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| Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile |
EXTENSIVE REARING SYSTEM OF RUMINANT SPECIES
| Codice | A005971 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Docente responsabile | Mariano Pauselli |
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| Attività | Caratterizzante |
| Ambito | Discipline agro-zootecniche, delle produzioni animali, e veterinarie |
| Settore | AGR/19 |
| Tipo insegnamento | Opzionale (Optional) |
| Lingua insegnamento | INGLESE |
| Contenuti | To provide knowledge about the extensive and semi-extensive ruminant production systems and the different factors influencing them as the grazing systems used for the different reared species and their effects on products quality and environmental impact. |
| Testi di riferimento | Meuret M. & Provenza F., The Art & Science of Shepherding: Tapping the Wisdom of French Herders, 2015. Provenza F., Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom, 2018. Materiale in formato elettronico e presentazioni effettuate durante il corso disponibili nella piattaforma Unistudium |
| Obiettivi formativi | Knowledge: The feeding behaviour in grazing animals and the physiological response to the nutrients and secondary compounds contained in the grazed plants. Effect of the environment on grazing animals Agrosilvopastoral systems and their description. The evaluation of the maintainable stocking rate and grazing strategies. Cattle, sheep, goat and deer extensive and semi-extensive rearing systems. Extensive ruminant rearing and environmental impact. Chemical and nutritional characteristics of meat, milk and dairy products from extensive reared ruminants. Interaction between domestic and wild animals in extensive rearing systems. Ability: Knowing how to design a grazing plan using satellite images from terrestrial remote sensing and drafting the respective technical report. Know how plan a semi-extensive or extensive ruminants breeding according to the available surfaces and draw up the respective technical report. Knowing how to identify the critical points in a semi-extensive or extensive production model and draw up the respective technical report. Knowing how to identify the factors that mostly influence the chemical and sensory characteristics of the products obtained in semi-extensive and extensive ruminant farming systems and draw up the respective technical report. Interpersonal skills: Be able to work in group. |
| Prerequisiti | The ability to perform simple mathematical calculation and the basic knowledge of biology, physiology, ruminants farming systems and basis of agronomy and forage systems, are required. |
| Metodi didattici | The course is organized as follows: Lecturers. Classroom exercises aiming to design a grazing plan using satellite images from terrestrial remote sensing. Classroom exercises aiming to plan a semi-extensive or extensive ruminants breeding according to the available surfaces. Classroom exercises aiming to to identify the critical points in a semi-extensive or extensive production model. Field experiences (Livestock rearing and management strategies). Seminars with external experts- Classroom discussion about material previously delivered by the teacher. English language activity. |
| Altre informazioni | The course will be held in DSA3 classrooms. Frequence is facultative but recommended |
| Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento | The exam consists in an oral examination, based on the discussion of a group technical report and answers to questions aimed to evaluate the level of knowledge and understanding acquired by the student on the subjects of the course. As a whole, the test will evaluate the students' communication and language skills, the ability to apply the acquired skills, and work out solving problems and solutions. For information on support services for students affected by disabilities and SLD visit the webpage: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa |
| Programma esteso | Lectures/webnars Introduction (0.6 FCU) Major constrains in modern agricultural and livestock production systems (food demand growth with particular reference to livestock products, urbanization rate, environmental impact of agriculture and livestock production systems, the role of forage systems on soil fertility and livestock farming systems, livestock food characteristics and human health implications): Forage nutritive characteristics (0.4 FCU): Nutritive characteristics in different plant families and species. Secondary compounds in grass, forbs shrubs and tree leaves: the role of polyphenolic compounds. Plant fatty acid composition. Ruminants feeding behavior (0.6 FCU) Methods of transmission of knowledge. Feed preferences in ruminants and factors that affected them. Grazing ruminant behavior. Physiological implication in ruminant grazing behavior. The effect of the environment on ruminant physiology (0.4 FCU). The study of a pastoral system (0.4 FCU) A brief introduction to phytosociology as instrument to evaluate the landscape richness of plant species. The pastoral value of a natural grassland: description and calculation The EU Habitat directive with particular reference to H6210 and 6250. The grazing stocking rate evaluation and different grazing systems description and implication (0.4 FCU) The evaluation of stoking rate in grazed grasslands Rotational grazing systems in grasslands and extensive farms. The virtual fencing. Extensive farming systems (1FCU): Dairy cow extensive farming management in different agro ecological systems (lowlands and highlands). Cow-calf farming systems. Grass-fed beef production Dairy sheep and meat sheep management in different landscape. Goat management in different landscape Deer farming. Chemical and Nutritional characteristics of extensive farmed ruminant products (0.6 FCU). Milk and dairy products: - Fatty acids composition. - Vitamin composition. - Volatile compounds composition. - Traceability. Beef and lamb and deer meat quality. - Organoleptic characteristics. - Fatty acid composition - Vitamin composition - Traceability. Relationship between wild animals and farmed animals in semi-extensive and extensive farming systems (0.2 FCU). Practical Lessons (1,4 FCU): Grazing plan designing using satellite imagines from terrestrial remote sensing Ruminants Farming systems planning. Critical Control point evaluation in extensive farming systems. Quality parameters of livestock products from extensive farming systems evaluation. |
| Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile | The goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development traceable to the Course can be summarized as combating poverty and hunger and producing quality food that ensures the well-being of populations while respecting environmental protection and the welfare of farmed animals |