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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"farm characteristics"”.
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The long-term effects of farming practices on soil quality, as influenced by farmer attitude and farm characteristics
Several farming systems, in a region of the Dark Brown soil zone west of Saskatoon, were investigated to identify farming practices that are soil-conserving, or soil-degrading, by measuring their effects on soil quality. The study identified soil properties that are practical and measurable …
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Motivation, Challenges, and Farm Resilience: Examining Cover Crop Adoption using a Survey Approach
… multilevel and multiple factors of demographics, farm characteristics, and perspectives, whereas the regional difference is large. Adoption rates vary by region due to irrigation, farm types, and cost-share program, with the Heartland (10%) and Northern Great Plains/Prairie Gateway (11%) of the …
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Evaluation Research and Agricultural Development: A Tunisian Case Study
… and objectives are different according to farm characteristics and source of income.
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Development of a family agribusiness transition planning tool
This research identifies common family farm characteristics, outlines the various elements of succession planning, and describes the motivations and objectives surrounding the composition of a succession plan. Business, retirement, and estate planning elements were integrated to develop a …
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Energy usage of agricultural machinery for corn and soybean production in Brazil, India, USA and Zambia
… and Zambia in sub-Saharan Africa. Representative farms were set up to reflect the common farming practices in each region. The farm characteristics varied depending on location and machinery were selected to perform the required tasks in the available amount of time. Machinery power, time …
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Use Patterns and Influencing Factors of Irrigation Best Management Practices in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
… practices (tail-water recovery system and on-farm storage reservoir), and advanced irrigation scheduling practices (soil moisture sensors, ET or atmometers, computerized scheduling, and Woodruff charts). We find that most of the sample producers use between one and four individual IBMPs from …
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Perceptions, understandings, and behaviours along the pork food chain relating to antimicrobial resistance in the UK
… pork chain from a multi-stakeholder perspective (farmers, veterinary surgeons, processors, retailers, consumers).<br/><br/>Thus, using a mixed methods approach this thesis investigates the perceptions and attitudes towards agricultural antimicrobial use and AMR from farmer to consumer, …
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Some decentralized optimization and control algorithms for the control of wind farms
… algorithms that can be applied to wind farm controls. Traditionally, wind farm control is comprised of the wind farm level control and the wind turbine level control. The wind farm level control is a centralized controller that takes the demands from the grid and generates operating …
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Analysis of the dynamics of government-supported smallholder baby vegetable enterprises for an integrated high-value development framework
… Eswatini embraces the integration of smallholder farmers into high-value crop production as a vehicle for inclusive green growth. However, the outcome of the sector remains low and hampers its contribution towards this goal. The study assessed the levels of technical, allocative and economic …
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United States Meat Goat Production Economic Performance Measures: A Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis
… that focused on the marketing, technology, farmer attitudes and farm/farmer characteristics associated with U.S. meat goat production. Since the motivations for the follow-up costs and returns survey were to estimate U.S. meat goat farm efficiency and determine the efficiency drivers, we …
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INTEGRATED TERRITORIAL APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: NITROGEN MANAGEMENT AND SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN LOMBARDY REGION
… need of up-scaling experimental results from the farm to the landscape scale. Moreover, it has to be taken into account that the impact of these measures also depends on the interaction between type of action, pedo-climatic factors and farm characteristics. An effective tool for territorial …
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Agrobiodiversity enhancement for the sustainability of the tropical uplands: An evaluation of agricultural land use in Liliw, Laguna, Philippines
… of environmental protection, productivity and farmer acceptability. To achieve the aim, a methodological framework for evaluating agricultural land use in the uplands was developed. The methodology aimed at allowing one to understand the influence of agricultural land use on natural resources …
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Database Marketing Management Strategies for Agricultural Lenders
… the use of those products and services with farm business characteristics. Information is also obtained on the interest rate sensitivity of the producers and correlated with farm business characteristics. The importance of technology and strategic alliances and other influences in the …
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Fodder legumes for Green Biorefineries
… comparing different production scenarios on a farm. Two standard crop rotations for Brandenburg, producing either only market crops or market crops and fodder legumes for ruminant feed production, were compared to a system that uses the cultivated fodder legumes for the Green Biorefinery value …
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Innovation adoption and farm management practices in the Canterbury dairy industry
… behaviours of Canterbury (New Zealand) dairy farmers and the socio-demographic, farm and information seeking characteristics (ISCs) associated with adoption. Ten farm management practices (FMPs) were selected based on their adoption and promotion by the Lincoln University Dairy Farm (LUDF) …