Microbiota in Dung and Milk Differ Between Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms.

ABSTRACT: Organic farming is increasingly promoted as a means to reduce the environmental impact of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and antibiotics in conventional dairy systems. These factors potentially affect the microbial communities of the production stages (soil, silage, dung, and milk) of the entire farm cycle. However, understanding whether the microbiota representative of different production stages reflects different agricultural practices - such as conventional versus organic farming - is unknown. Furthermore, the translocation of the microbial community across production stages is scarcely studied. We sequenced the microbial communities of soil, silage, dung, and milk samples from organic and conventional dairy farms in the Netherlands. We found that community structure o

SUBMITTER: Gomes SIF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7399162 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature