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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"agricultural machinery"”.
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SMEs and global supply chains in the French agricultural machinery sector
… research question is: how do SMEs in the French agricultural machinery sector manage their global supply chains? Research was carried out into twelve SMEs in the agricultural machinery sector in north-west France. The qualitative research was broken down into three stages: exploratory, which …
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Rearward visibility issues related to agricultural machinery: Contributing factors, potential solutions
… complexity, and speed of tractors and other agricultural self-propelled machinery have increased, so have the visibility-related issues, placing significant importance on the visual skills, alertness, and reactive abilities of the operator. Rearward movement of large agricultural equipment …
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Energy usage of agricultural machinery for corn and soybean production in Brazil, India, USA and Zambia
The use of agricultural machinery was quantified for the production of corn and soybeans. The energy usage patterns of agricultural machinery were analyzed and compared across four regions including Illinois in the United States, Mato Grosso in Brazil, Madhya Pradesh in India and Zambia in …
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Relação entre resistência mecânica do solo à penetração e textura do solo em área de colheita mecanizada de cana-de-açúcar no litoral paraibano
… has been aggravated due to the increasing use of agricultural machinery traffic and frequency of these machines, due to the short periods of planting, to the detriment of weather conditions, compliance with contract farming by farmers and advancement of new technologies. In this scenario the …
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Nesting Ecology of the Ring-necked Pheasant in Eastern South Dakota
… 1973 and 1974 nesting seasons were predation and agricultural machinery. Rate of predation was difficult to estimate since many nests destroyed by predators may have been inactive or abandoned when destroyed. Mammals were associated with 51 percent of all nest failures on sample plots during the …
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The Impact of capital intensive farming in Thailand: a computable general equilibrium approach
… of Thai economy has been transforming from an agricultural economy to an industrialized country (measured by the share of agriculture to GDP), in 2008 nearly 40 % of overall employment was still engaged in the agricultural sector. In addition, most of the poor (57%) were farm operators and farm …
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Evaluation of life cycle assessment methodology for multiple agroecosystems
Industrialized agricultural production of annual row crops, such as corn and soybeans, is a major contributor to several environmental problems, including climate change and eutrophication of waterways. Land use transition to multifunctional woody polyculture (MWP) agroecosystems has been proposed …
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The inner life of a born-global family firm: the nexus between internationalisation, social capital and organisational change
… within a born-global family firm (FF) in the agricultural sector, focusing on how social capital develops and transforms throughout international expansion and organisational change. Conducting a longitudinal study of APV, an Austrian manufacturer of agricultural machinery, the research …
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Effect of Supply Chain Drivers on Leagile Implementation: Examining the Moderating Role of Industrial Cluster in Mazandaran province
… three industrial clusters, including furniture, agricultural machinery and equipment, and trout fish in Iran. Partial Least Squares and bootstrapping methods were used in SmartPLS-V3 software to conduct Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Also, Slope Analysis has …
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Optimization in a system of systems: Minimizing a farm's environmental impact through operational efficiency
… decisions regarding the selection and use of its agricultural machinery. The goal is to minimize the farm’s total environmental impact by selecting an optimal portfolio of machinery and determining the annual usage intensity of each machine. LCA’s are performed to generate each machine’s fixed and …
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The socio-economic consequences of the agribusiness model on the land reform beneficiaries in greater Tzaneen municipality, South Africa: The case of Elangeni Project
… agrarian capitalism which increasingly organises agricultural production in the form of monoculture on an ever-increasing scale with the intense use of agricultural machinery and toxic chemicals along the growing use of genetically modified seeds (Stedile and Leon, 2014). Farm production, …
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Using Modelling to Optimise the Use of Biological Control Agents Against Soil-Borne Plant Pathogens
… material between growing seasons from agricultural machinery reduced any benefit of specific spatial arrangements of a crop in the second year of an epidemic. Aggregation of the pathogen and biocontrol agent were found to affect epidemic severity, with the greatest reduction from a …
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A control system for the power manipulation of a blueberry weeder
… of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, 1953
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The public relations program and practice of two hundred fifty Michigan farm equipment retailers
… of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, 1955
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The adaptation of the combine to the harvesting of navy beans
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1951
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Efficiency of harvesting navy beans with a combine
… of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, 1952
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