Cooperating coupled farms mentioned that integration provided more land base for dairy farm expansion and greater opportunities for disposal of livestock waste.
In this coupling, the dairy farm provided forage and manure storages as well as the manure-spreading equipment.
This scenario assumed expansion of the coupled dairy farm to use the additional forages.
However, in our study, among the dairy farm workers, a high risk was linked to the presence of sheep at a farm.
Accordingly, this organism was isolated from approximately 1 % of the dairy farm workers examined in this study.
The dairy farm covered the costs of forage storage and manure-spreading.
The strain was initially isolated from a commercial dairy farm in 1987 and has been stored in liquid nitrogen until 1993.
In both instances, the land/feed-coupled dairy farm conducted some crop production operations.
