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Showing 1 to 20 of 249 for “"On-farm"”.
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On-farm fractionation of milk components
Methods for on-farm extraction of low-concentration (minor) proteins from raw whole bovine milk directly after milking were explored. These minor proteins have high commercial value. Lactoferrin (LF) and lactoperoxidase (LP) were used as model proteins for extraction using cation exchange …
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Effects of Merchant Credit on Farm Organization
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T17:00:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 6402953.PDF: 8565700 bytes, checksum: c57854ed9e2c3dfcf24f13ded1a5e4ab (MD5) Previous issue date: 1963
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Three essays on on-farm precision experiments
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Three essays on farm policy and agricultural finance
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Essays on Farm Household Decision-Making: Evidence from Vietnam
This thesis contains three studies which provide theoretical analysis and empirical evidence on the decision-making of farm households under shocks and imperfect markets in Vietnam. The first study attempts to investigate the effects of the 2007-08 global food crisis on the investment, saving and …
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BUSINESS RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS AND ON-FARM CAPITAL INVESTMENT
… with income variability. These programs are commonly in the form of insurance (production insurance, net margin insurance, etc.). There is a vast literature on investment decision under risk and uncertainty, but there exists a gap in the empirical analysis of the effects risk-reducing Canadian …
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Analysis of Precision Agriculture Datasets for on -Farm Research
"Data collected with ""Precision Agriculture"" (PA) technologies can provide new insights into soil plant relationships and how these relationships are affected by management practices. However, to analyze these datasets requires the consideration of limitations due to differential spatial scaling, …
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Impacts of Best Management Practices on Farm Financial Performance
A rapidly changing global agribusiness environment creates a challenge for commercially oriented agricultural producers to improve business acumen through strategy development and execution. A best management practice is broadly defined as a practice that is considered to be most effective in …
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Impact of Industrialization on Farm Organization in North-Central Illinois
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Cultural influences on farm families' responses to difficult life events
Over the past decade, the farm financial crisis and devastating drought conditions have confronted farm families. While researchers have examined some aspects of how farm families are coping with these stressors, little attention has focused on the factors that explain how different families …
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Improving caretaker mental welfare through targeted on-farm euthanasia training programs
Swine employee retention factors are multi-faceted, complicated, inter-twined, and often differ from other businesses. Positive factors of the job include direct pig interaction, career enhancement opportunities and reliable and varied tasks. However, negative factors of the job may include early …
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A Mixed Methods Study of On-Farm Apprenticeship Learning in Virginia
The average age of principal farm operators rose from 50.3 years in 1978, to 57.1 years in 2007, as farmers retire and new farmers do not enter farming (NASS, 2013).With declining numbers of entrants into farming, agricultural educators and service providers must better understand strategies for …
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Evaluating dry woodlands degradation and on-farm tee management in kenyan drylands
… adapted to the harsh climatic and edaphic conditions, providing important ecosystem services for communities in an environment where other types of tropical tree species would not survive. Due to cyclic droughts which results in crop failure and death of livestock, the inhabitants turn to …
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On-farm nitrous oxide response to nitrogen fertilizer in corn cropping systems
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Crop and Soil Science, 2009
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Linkages Between Tenure, Risk, and Time Attitudes: Effects on Farm Business Decisions
Results of this study show that farm businesses can be analyzed in a life-cycle model, in which tenure, production, financing, and investment decisions can be jointly optimized. In this inter-temporal stochastic setting, the degree of risk aversion and changing time attitudes play important roles …
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Three essays on implications of on-farm precision experiments for N management
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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On-Farm Apprenticeships: Labor Identities and Sociocultural Reproduction within Alternative Agrifood Movements
On-farm apprenticeships are gaining momentum as an important strategy for beginning farmer training. They are also a space for identity work and rehearsal of alternative agrifood movement practice (AAMs; MacAuley and Niewolny, 2016; Pilgeram, 2011). AAMs embody and recursively construct values of …
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A study of the institutional on-farm training program in central Virginia
Webster describes education as ….. “a science dealing with the principles and practice of teaching and learning". Vocational Agricultural Education endeavors to train present and prospective famers for proficiency in farming. The end of World War II found this country faced with the problem of …
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Towards development of biogas production for New Zealand on-farm greenhouse gas reduction
The current non-circular approaches to farm dairy manure management in New Zealand (NZ) have prompted research into alternative strategies. Anaerobic digestion (AD), by capturing methane as biogas and producing biofertiliser, offers a promising solution to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and …
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Effect of Risk and Risk Aversion on Farm Decision-Making: Farmers in Northern Thailand
… of this study was to determine the impact that farm decision makers' expectations of uncertain events in crop production and their preferences for taking risks had on the farm decision-making process. Individual firm data from a random sample of thirty-nine farmers in two villages in the Chiang …
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