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Turnover rates are decreasing in California dairies
California Agriculture, 2012 Dairy employees in the San Joaquin Valley are staying longer in their jobs. Our study in 2009 showed that the average length of employment has increased 250% since 1953 and 40% since 1984.
Gregorio Billikopf, Gustavo González
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Agriculture on the Brink: Climate Change, Labor and Smallholder Farming in Botswana
Land, 2016 Botswana is a semi-arid, middle-income African country that imports 90 percent of its food. Despite its relative prosperity, Botswana also suffers from one of the highest measures of income inequality in the world, persistent poverty, and relatively high
William G. Moseley
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Sepa, 2017 Farm labor scarcity could delay planting time and not simultaneously planting, so that it has influence to the index of rice planting, OPT’s disturbance which eventually affects to rice production.
Tota Suhendrata
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Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2013 This study estimates off-farm labor supply from farm operators and their spouses using two different estimation procedures and data from the 2006 Agricultural Resource Management Survey.
Mahesh Pandit +2 more
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Proposed changes to the H-2A program would affect labor costs in the United States and California
California Agriculture, 2022 The H-2A visa program allows farmers in the United States to be certified by the U.S. Department of Labor to recruit and employ guest workers, usually for a maximum of 10 months, when they are unable to find enough workers living in the United States ...
Philip Martin, Zachariah Rutledge
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American Journal of Public Health, 2015 The article discusses the U.S. sociologist and photographer Lewis Wickes Hine, and his use of photography to expose the evils of child labor in the twentieth century. Topics include the use of art as a tool for social reform by U.S. artists, writers, and journalists in the twentieth century, the educational deficiencies and health and safety hazards of
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Comparative study on 3 oral potassium formulations for treatment of hypokalemia in dairy cows
Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2019 Background Hypokalemia is of clinical relevance in cattle. Different mostly empirical treatment options are suggested. Hypothesis/Objectives To evaluate if oral administration of potassium influences the plasma concentration, the intracellular ...
Thomas Wittek +3 more
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California Agriculture, 2022 Workplace sexual harassment (SH) has been highlighted as a key issue for female agricultural workers in the United States. This study investigated how workers' descriptive data (age, job experience, attitudes) and specific organizational variables (how ...
Malcolm Hobbs +2 more
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More jobs and less seasonal employment in California agriculture since 1990
California Agriculture, 2023 Employment in California agriculture has increased over the past 30 years and has become less seasonal. There were an average of 404,000 farm jobs in California in 2020, 10% more than average employment of 367,000 in 1990.
Zachariah Rutledge, Philip Martin
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Extreme Heat and COVID-19: A Dual Burden for Farmworkers
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Currently, there is an extensive literature examining heat impacts on labor productivity and health, as well as a recent surge in research around COVID-19.
David López-Carr +4 more
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