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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Dairy farmers"”.
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The milk supply response of Virginia dairy farmers
… to estimate the milk supply response of Virginia dairy farmers, including estimation of supply elasticities with respect to relevant prices. The supply response was estimated using linear regression techniques and quarterly data from 1965 through 1982. The hypothesis that producers are profit …
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Analysis Of Factors Affecting The Technical Efficiency Of Smallholder Dairy Farmers In Njombe District
This study was conducted in nine dairy cattle keeping villages of Njombe District Council (NDC) with the overall objective of estimating Technical Efficiency (TE) and analyzing factors influencing Technical Inefficiency (TI) of smallholder dairy farmers. Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production …
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Hygienic and compositional quality of Raw Milk Produced by Smallholder dairy farmers in Lusaka Province of Zambia
… quality of raw milk produced by smallholder dairy farmers (SHDFs) in Lusaka province of Zambia. It was conducted during the months of January and February 2014. The hygienic and compositional quality of raw milk was determined by assessing its Somatic Cell Count (SCC), Total Bacteria Count …
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Hygienic and compositional quality of Raw Milk Produced by Smallholder dairy farmers in Lusaka Province of Zambia
… quality of raw milk produced by smallholder dairy farmers (SHDFs) in Lusaka province of Zambia. It was conducted during the months of January and February 2014. The hygienic and compositional quality of raw milk was determined by assessing its Somatic Cell Count (SCC), Total Bacteria Count …
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Evaluation of smallholder dairy farmers’ knowledge, aattitudes, practices (KAP) and factors contributing to hygienic production of raw milk in Malawi’s Blantyre agriculture development division.
Dairy products provide nutrition to households, but they could also serve as source of milk-borne diseases when produced under poor hygienic conditions. This cross-sectional study was conducted from August to September 2023 to evaluate smallholder dairy farmers’ knowledge, attitudes, practices …
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An Application Of Risk Contingent Credit Applied To New York Dairy Farms With U.S. Options On Class Iii Milk Futures
The present day realities facing New York dairy farmers and all dairy farmers is an example of when business risk become so severe that the residual impact on financial risk become acute. While financial risk is ever present, stress results only when conditions arise in which downside risk result …
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Three essays on the spatial analysis of sustainable dairy farming in New Zealand
… the sustainable development of the New Zealand dairy industry. The first essay focuses on the relationship between dairy yields and intensive inputs. The second and third essays are concerned with farm-level management practices on nutrient pollution, the interactions between farmers, and the …
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From Prototype to Production: Scaling an On-Farm Milk Analyzing Device to Low Volume Production Using Design for Manufacturability and Assembly
The dairy industry is a complex and storied one that must innovate to survive. Dairy farmers have traditionally been unable to tap into the vast wealth of data contained within the milk of each cow. Labby, a startup company, seeks to change that paradigm with their Internet-of-Things Milk Analyzer. …
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Design and implementation of a Software System for Weed Monitoring and Clean-up
… the agricultural industry. The main goal of any dairy farmer is to have a productive pasture that can provide nutrients for cattle. One essential factor for quality reduction in any pasture is weed. Dairy farmers spend a tremendous amount of time and budget controlling and destroying weed …
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Recruiting and maintaining dairy cooperative members: a strategy for reducing the free rider problem
Dairy marketing cooperatives provide marketwide services, such as lobbying for higher support prices and negotiating for premiums above marketing order prices, which benefit all dairy farmers in the market. The presence of free riders, people who benefit from these marketwide services without …
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The effect of crop yield and feed price variability on profitability of dairy farming in Virginia: a target MOTAD approach
Dairy farming in Virginia could be more profitable if price and yield risks affecting the cost and availability of feed inputs such as corngrain, corn silage, alfalfa and ryelage are reduced. Price and yield risk facing dairy farmers in Virginia can be reduced through a marketing strategy like …
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Development of low fat and reduced fat mozzarella cheese
… the traditional manufacturing method used by dairy farmers and other dairies; examine the effects of method of salting, use of proteolytic strains of starter cultures, effect of preacidificafion of milk using lacfic, acefic and citric acids to pH 6.3, 6.1 and 5.9 on the characteristics of ULFM …
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Going green : sustainable mining, water, and the remaking of social protest in post-neoliberal Ecuador
… gold mine provoked such bitter opposition from dairy farmers in the parish of Victoria del Portete? My dissertation follows a group of indigenous and mestizo dairy farmers in the southern Ecuadorian Andes to understand why they oppose gold mining in their watershed and traces the cultural and …
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An analysis of cooperative payments as a reimbursement to dairy cooperatives for market-wide services
… in more detail in Chapter II. In the case of dairy marketing cooperatives, with which this treatise is concerned, it must be born in mind that the cooperatives are simply extensions of the farm firms. Dairy marketing cooperatives are owned by their member users who are dairy farmers. The dairy …
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Milking anomie: experiencing food safety on Canadian dairy farms
… structural perspective. Analyzing the Canadian dairy industry, this project seeks to answer how the legal definition of food safety impacts the production practices of farmers, and where farmers place the burden of food safety responsibility, while partially testing institutional anomie theory. …
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Paying to Play: Supply Management in Montana's Dairy Industry
Montana’s dairy industry is unique among US states because of its supply management program, which allocates quota to limit how much fluid milk can be produced and sold within the state. The amount of quota is set and price varies with market conditions; therefore, quota adds to a farm’s production …
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Paying to Play: Supply Management in Montana's Dairy Industry
Montana’s dairy industry is unique among US states because of its supply management program, which allocates quota to limit how much fluid milk can be produced and sold within the state. The amount of quota is set and price varies with market conditions; therefore, quota adds to a farm’s production …
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Big data technology adoption in dairy and beef production
… role in the worldwide supply of beef and dairy products, and it will continue to play an important role to meet the increasing global demand. The cattle industry has integrated sophisticated technological solutions into the production process, known as Precision Livestock Farming (PLF), …
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The effect of available resources on the forage-grain feeding ratios and forage production systems on selected Virginia grade A dairy farms
Dairy farmers in Virginia are confronted with the problem of continually re-organizing and adjusting their farming operations in an effort to maintain or improve their competitive position. Increasing competition in dairying within the state, as well as potential competition developing in areas …
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Factors affecting the cost of producing grade A milk in Virginia
… upward pressure of costs is forcing Virginia dairy farmers to adjust their operations in order to meet changing economic conditions, and to maintain acceptable income levels. The individual milk producer has little or no control over the price he receives for his product, whereas he does have …
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