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2003 Pollutant Loads Kings River Near Berryville, Arkansas [PDF]

, 2004
An automatic sampler and a USGS gauging station were established in 1998 and water quality sampling was begun in 1999 on the Kings River near Berryville, Arkansas.
Cash, L. Wade, Nelson, Marc A.
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Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
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Intercropping Green Manure Species with Tea Plants Enhances Soil Fertility and Enzyme Activity and Improves Microbial Community Structure and Diversity in Tea Plantations

Agronomy
To investigate the effects of intercropping green manure on the tea plantation ecosystem, this study was conducted using 40-year-old Camellia sinensis cv. “Fuding Dabai” tea plants at the Tea Experimental Base of the Jiangxi Institute of Cash Crops. Four
Lixian Wang, Qin Liu, Peiyu Chang, Jiangen Zhang, Chen Li, Qiaoyun Shuang, Chunyun Zhang, Xinfeng Jiang   +7 more
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Who Are the Farmers Participating in a Carbon Sequestration Program? Results of a Discrete Choice Experiment in Germany

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural soils offer great potential for carbon sequestration through humus formation. One way to motivate farmers to build up humus is through humus programs. These are still at an early stage of development, poorly explored, and the number of participating farmers is low. Our aim is to explain the heterogeneity of farmers' willingness to
Julia B. Block, Michael Danne, Oliver Mußhoff   +2 more
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Characterization and functional insights of photosynthetic genes MnPsbA, MnRbcL, and MnRCA in mulberry

Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca
Photosynthesis is the basic metabolic process of plants and the efficiency of photosynthesis is a direct result of crop yield and quality. The functions of MnPsbA, MnRbcL, and MnRCA in mulberry were investigated.
Yong LI, Jin HUANG, Fangyuan SONG, Rongli MO, Zhiyue GUO, Wen DENG   +5 more
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Swedish Consumers' Willingness‐to‐Pay for Plant‐Based Proteins in Pasta Sauce: Preferences and Policy Scenarios

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores Swedish consumers' protein preferences by estimating the willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for minced meat and plant‐based proteins in pasta sauce from an in‐store experiment (n = 206) and an online discrete choice experiment (n = 517). On average, the WTP was highest for minced meat.
Emilia Mattsson, Anna Kristina Edenbrandt, Jens Rommel, Sarah Säll   +3 more
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Comparative Global Metabolome Profile and Transcriptome Sequence Analysis of the Rough and Smooth Peel of the Orah Mandarin (Citrus reticulata)

Horticulturae
Background: The Orah mandarin is an economically important variety of Citrus reticulata for citrus growers in Yunnan Province, China. Generally, the fruit peel is smooth, an attractive feature for consumer preferences.
Hongming Liu, Chunrui Long, Xiaomeng Fu, Shaohua Wang, Yuqiang Lou, Jianmei Dong, Meichao Dong, Jiamei Mao, Jiandong Yang, Hongxia Yang, Yuxia Du, Xianyan Zhou   +11 more
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Analysis of fatty acid compositions and concentrations in the kernel of seven main macadamia cultivars in Yunnan [PDF]

Guoshu xuebao
[Objective] Fatty acid is one of the main trait indicators to evaluate the nut quality of macadamia germplasm resources, and also essential nutrients for human health.
DUAN Minxian, ZHANG Birong, YANG Fan, LI Xuejia, SHI Wenbin, YAN Suyun, TANG Shaoping, ZHAO Jun, ZHOU Xianyan   +8 more
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Equivalence of ten different discounted cash flow valuation methods [PDF]

This paper shows that ten methods of company valuation using discounted cash flows (WACC; equity cash flow; capital cash flow; adjusted present value; residual income; EVA; business's risk-adjusted equity cash flow; business's risk-adjusted free cash ...
Fernandez, Pablo
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Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn, Alejandro Plastina   +1 more
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