Agronomy, Crop Science, Rural Buildings and Economics

Introduction to the course: forage production aimed at animal nutrition (2 h);
Territory, agricultural land and vegetable production. Land use and land use change (2 h);
Agroecosystems and ecosystems. Concept of ecosystem services (2 h);
Pedological environment overview: chemical-physical characteristics of the agricultural land; organic matter and soil biological properties; concept of field capacity in the soil water system; Concept of agronomic soil fertility; Nitrates Directive (4 h);
Plant production and the factors that determine it (2 h);
grazing land, meadow pasture, meadow grass. (2 h);
Main fodder and quality aspects (2 h);
Zea Mais (2 h);
Medicago sativa (2 h);
Lolium multiflorum (1 h);
Soybean (1 h).
Forage conservation techniques: haymaking, ensilage, dehydration (2 h).

Animal Welfare (5 h):
· The needs of animals in terms of indoor environmental quality (temperature, relative humidity,air speed).
· Environmental changes induced by the presence of animals and facilities for maintenance welfare conditions (insulation, ventilation, air treatment).
· The calculation of the coefficient of heat transmission, the realization of the insulation. The materials, thermal bridges, the vapor barrier, the effect of the thermal inertia.
· The determination of the volume of ventilation in summer and winter, the verification of the thermal balance of a building.
· The cooling and heating of a building, possible solutions, the costs.
· The lighting of buildings, its effects on animals.

· Cattle (5 h):
· Buildings for cattle in the stalls and free stalls for dairy cows. the needs environmental, distributional patterns and construction, prefabrication, the working time.
· The milking parlor, the different solutions, mechanization, the milk and salt and local service. Iareas for the periparturient.
· Patterns and structural design of stables for cattle rearing the young, for calves and beef cattle.

· Piggeries (4 h):
· Buildings for pigs. The different organizational settings: a closed cycle, open cycle, "the isowean".
· Buildings for industry birth, weaning, for gestation (hold heat, first and second phase). The evolution of types in recent years with the development of technologies breeding.
· The piggeries in the phase of growth and fattening, the floor cracked, its not, the solutions emptying and implications for animal welfare and the quality of indoor air.


· Kennels (2 h):
· Regulation and structural design

· Horses (4 h):
· Different typologies of stables.


· Precision Livestock Farming (2 h):
· The principles of PLF
· Applications

· Environmental Impact (2 h):
· The environmental impact of livestock-induced water, soil and air

Part I: INTRODUCTION
1. Ten Principles of Economics
2. Thinking Like an Economist
Part II: SUPPLY AND DEMAND I: HOW MARKETS WORK
3. The Market Forces of Supply and Demand
4. Elasticity and Its Application.
Part III: FIRM BEHAVIOR AND THE ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRY
The Costs of Production
Firms in Competitive Markets
Part IV: TOPICS FOR FURTHER STUDY
The Theory of Consumer Choice