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Million-Dollar Farms in the New Century [PDF]

Million-dollar farms—those with annual sales of at least $1 million—accounted for about half of U.S. farm sales in 2002, up from a fourth in 1982 (with sales measured in constant 2002 dollars).
Banker, David E., Hoppe, Robert A., Korb, Penelope J.   +2 more
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

On the dissonance between the legislature’s actual and declared objectives of shaping the agricultural system

Studia Prawnicze KUL
At the root of the restrictive legal regulations that were introduced in the Act of 11 April 2003 on Shaping the Agricultural System is the assumption of the special importance of agricultural real estate in the socio-economic system in Poland.
Joanna Mikołajczyk, Ireneusz Nowak
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Multiple Generation Farm Households: What Determines Primacy in Management? [PDF]

This study identifies factors that influence primacy between generations in the management structure of U.S. family farms. The paper fills an important gap in the farm succession literature by exploring succession (in management of the farm) as an ...
Keeney, Roman, Marshall, Maria I., Remble, Amber A.   +2 more
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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental sustainability in milk-producing family farms in the micro-region of Carazinho-RS

, 2020
Adriano Mattei, Claudete Rempel, Mônica Jachetti Maciel   +2 more
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Ultraviolet light differentially reduces viability of fish- and fish farm-associated flavobacteria (families Flavobacteriaceae and Weeksellaceae) [PDF]

, 2023
Christopher Knupp, Mohamed Faisal, Travis O. Brenden, Esteban Soto, Benjamin R. LaFrentz, Matt J. Griffin, Gregory D. Wiens, Wade Cavender, Danielle Van Vliet, Thomas P. Loch   +9 more
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Resource Use Efficiency of Millet/Cowpea Intercropping in Niger State, Nigeria [PDF]

The study examined the profitability and resources-use efficiency of millet/cowpea mixed farmers production in Niger state Nigeria. The primary data for the study was obtained using structured questionnaire administered to 80 randomly sampled farmers in ...
Adiele, M.A., Jirgi, A.J., Ogundeji, Abiodun A., Viljoen, Machiel F.   +3 more
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Complexity and Obsolete Data Concepts: Canadian Farm Policy, and the Changing Structure of Agriculture [PDF]

Agricultural data systems remain based upon now obsolete concepts. In particular, the "full-time, family farm" is still organizing concepts for much of the farm data system, and for agricultural policies.
Freshwater, David
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