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Animal welfare controls - but how? Progress towards better welfare for Swedish dairy cows
To ensure the welfare of dairy cows in Sweden there is legislation and controls on dairy farms. But are today's animal welfare controls really optimally designed to understand and monitor the physical and mental well-being of cows? These are questions asked by research - that have now been answered. -
New floating platform for seal-safe coastal fishing in southern Sweden
The push-up trap is a vital tool for coastal fishing in northern Sweden, keeping seals away from the catch. In the southern Baltic Sea, algae growth and difficult cleaning have hampered its use. SLU has now developed a work raft to make the job easier and improve fishers’ working conditions. -
Laura Tünnermann receives the Marschner Young Scientist Award
Last week, the International Plant Nutrition Council announced the winners of the prestigious Marschner Young Scientist Award. Laura Tünnermann was selected as one of two recipients in the PhD student category and received the award at the 20th International Plant Nutrition Colloquium in Porto. -
Can cows drink salt water? For sustainable food production in times of water scarcity
Can cows drink salt water? And do they really need as large amounts of water as often as is currently required by law? To that, science is now seeking answers: In a world where fresh water scarcity is becoming increasingly apparent, it may become a matter of priority between animals and humans. -
How “double-genomes” help plants diversify - and what that means for crops and climate resilience
A new study led by scientists at SLU, Uppsala and Charles University, Prague, just published in the leading journal PNAS, sheds light on a powerful but little-understood force in evolution: whole-genome duplication, a rare event where an organism gains an extra full set of chromosomes.