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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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Agriculture, 2023 The practical implementation of the employment promotion effect of the digital economy is closely linked to rural laborers’ digital skills (DS). Therefore, this study uses the Mprobit model to empirically test the impact of DS on rural labor employment ...
Xiumei Wang +3 more
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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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Graphs for each month of the year show the areas and crops expected to require mobilizing of seasonal laborers. Areas of serious and critical need are shown.
Farm Labor Program, War Food Administration
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Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2016 Background Healthy cows consume large amounts of potassium and a sudden loss in appetite can lead to hypokalemia. The routine method to evaluate potassium homeostasis is the measurement of the extracellular potassium in plasma or serum, but this does not
S. Schneider, A. Müller, T. Wittek
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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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Employment and earnings of California farmworkers in 2015
California Agriculture, 2017 The average employment of hired workers in California agriculture (NAICS 11) rose over 10% between 2005 and 2015, when some 16,400 agricultural establishments hired an average 421,300 workers who were paid a total of $12.8 billion, which was 27% of the ...
Philip Martin +2 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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, 2018 The Grain for Green program in China, a nationwide cropland set-aside program aimed at soil erosion prevention and poverty alleviation, was begun in 1999 and quickly expanded to 25 provinces, covering 32 million households.
Lun-Yu Xie +3 more
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Off-farm employment, informal insurance, and agricultural labor hiring in incomplete markets
International Review of Economics & FinanceRural households pursuing mixed livelihood strategies, continue to hire agricultural labor even when farming generates limited or negative returns. This paper explains this apparent anomaly as a household labor-portfolio choice in incomplete markets and ...
Fushun Zhang +3 more
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