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Understanding farm entry and farm exit in Korea
… sought to encourage rural young people to enter farming and older farmers to leave it. The government‟s tool for promoting this intergenerational change has been agricultural structural adjustment policy, which includes farm entry policy, farm exit policy, competitiveness policy, and rural …
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The farm
… from the Great Trek, bought a 250-hectare farm 20 kilometres southwest of Pretoria. During the next 100 years the farm became a working farm, and supported a chalk quarry. The family grew and flourished and the land was passed down from generation to generation. ... This MFA project has …
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Farm to Fork: A Culinary- and Farm-Enhanced Nutrition Education Program
… a nutrition education program, integrating farm and culinary activities into a nutrition education curriculum. The program is designed as a stand-alone program, but for this practice, implementation integrates the nutrition education program into the Film @ 6 after-school program – a …
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Criteria for Farm Managers
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:01:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6801718.pdf: 8458771 bytes, checksum: 0d487fc28c0bceec98fe844e1610e422 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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Competing Risks Models of Farm Service Agency Guaranteed Operating and Farm Ownership Loans
… events of over 19,000 guaranteed operating and farm ownership loans which were provided by the Farm Service Agency (FSA). Loans guaranteed by FSA are made by commercial banks, Farm Credit System (FCS), or other lenders to farmers who have limited ability to obtain loans from normal sources …
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A comparative study of rural Virginia farm and non farm household labor supply
This study compares rural Virginia two-adult farm and non-farm household labor supply on two levels: (1) labor market participation and (2) variations in labor supply to the market and to the home. The study develops three models: a selection model, a wage rate model, and a labor supply model. …
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U.S. farm capital investment 1996--2013: Differences by farm size and operator primary occupation
<p>This study analyzes U.S. farm level investment in machinery, equipment and structures between 1996-2013. A synthetic panel is constructed using annual cross-sectional farm level observations from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS). Cohorts are formed by grouping farms into …
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Michigan Black farm owners perceptions about farm ownership credit acquisition : a critical race analysis
… to gather the perceptions of selected Black farm owners in Michigan about the meaning of their farm ownership, credit acquisition experiences, and recommendations to improve the process. Through a critical race methodology of 11 semi-structured interviews, key findings indicate the preference …
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Wife's off-farm employment and its impact on perceived economic welfare of farm households
… were (1) to explore the extent to which nonfarm labor force participation of the wife contributes to the economic welfare of the farm household, (2) to identify the relative importance of a subset of variables most likely to affect the economic welfare of the farm household, and (3) to …
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Farm accounts: methods and principles
Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-09T23:47:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 5982424_opt.pdf: 76311626 bytes, checksum: 75be7534289859ac9a8e28bcf92eb648 (MD5) license.txt: 4183 bytes, checksum: 1dcc2037833d76bede73d5717587543b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1913
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Lender Behavior and Farm Organization
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T21:48:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6200626.pdf: 7387975 bytes, checksum: 0028eb889e7dd8ae7e978453ff32b618 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1961
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Defining farm-safety research priorities and adjusting farm insurance premiums by a risk analysis approach
A risk analysis approach for farm work-related injuries was proposed. For this study, risk is defined as the Expected Injury Cost (EIC) index per farm worker per year. Four steps are involved in the risk assessment analysis of farm injuries: (1) determination of risk factors, (2) injury severity …
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Multiperiod farm planning to maximize smallholder farm income : a case study of Shinyanga region, Tanzania
This study investigates the problem of low farm income in Shinyanga region, Tanzania. For the past two decades, smallholder farmers of Tanzania have been experiencing low farm earnings from the farming occupation. The problem of low farm income has trapped small holder farmers in a vicious cycle, …
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Traditional farm buildings 1770-1840: a study of the farm steadings on two Galloway estates
… and a vast programme of rebuilding the existing farm steadings. Traditional farm buildings are thus the physical manifestation and legacy of agrarian improvements. As a consequence, it is vitally important to record and assess these buildings as an example of material culture and traditions which …
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