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Automated lettuce thinners reduce labor requirements and increase speed of thinning
California Agriculture, 2017 Salinas Valley lettuce growers are adopting automated lettuce thinners to improve labor efficiency. We conducted field studies in 2014 and 2015 to compare the time involved in automated and manual thinning of direct-seeded lettuce and any differences in ...
Elizabeth Mosqueda +3 more
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THE DETERMINANTS OF PARTICIPATION DECISION IN OFF-FARM WORK: THE IOWA CASE [PDF]
This paper examines factors affecting the role of individual, farm production, family finance, and regional characteristics in affecting labor force decisions by farm households.
Orazem, Peter F. +2 more
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Eutopia: Revista de Desarrollo Economico Territorial, 2015 Agrarian marketing cooperatives are potentially important tools for rural development. However, many cooperatives experience significant outside sales to private intermediaries, even when offering price premiums through fair trade or organic ...
Noah H Enelow
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Non-farm income and labor markets in rural Ethiopia
, 2016 Ethiopia’s economy is rapidly transforming. However, the extent to which this is affecting off-farm income and labor markets in rural areas is not well understood. Based on a large-scale household survey in high potential agricultural areas, we find that
F. Bachewe +3 more
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The U.S. Farm Labor Market Post-IRCA: An Assessment of Employment Patterns, Farm Worker Earnings and Legal Status [PDF]
Immigration reform may significantly impact the specialty crops sector since more than half of the workforce is foreign-born and undocumented. Based on data from the National Agricultural Workers Survey, the trends pertaining to workers' legal status ...
Napasintuwong, Orachos +3 more
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Toledo History Scrapbooks - Labor Unions - Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)
, 2023 Scrapbook created by the Toledo Lucas County Public Library from newspaper clippings and photocopies on the subject of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC). FLOC was founded in 1967 by Mexican-American activist, Baldemar Velásquez, in Toledo, Ohio.
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Encuesta de Trabajadores Agrícolas Cubanos, 1956-57
EDIS, 2001 Esta publicación contiene una versión editada de la Encuesta de Trabajadores Agrícolas Cubanos realizada por la Agrupación Católica Universitaria (ACU) a través de Cuba en 1956-57. [La cita correcta es Melchor W. Gastón, Oscar A. Echevarría y René F. de
Melchor W. Gastón +2 more
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Boom, 2011 This is a review essay covering three recent books related to representations of farm labor in California: Richard Steven Street, Everyone Had Cameras: Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850–2000 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008); Jan Goggans, California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New ...
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OFF-FARM EMPLOYMENT DECISIONS BY MASSACHUSETTS FARM HOUSEHOLDS [PDF]
The off-farm labor participation and supply decisions of Massachusetts farm families were estimated in a model which allows for joint decisions. The hypothesis of joint off-farm participation decisions by operators and spouses was rejected.
Hallberg, Milton C. +2 more
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY AND OFF-FARM EMPLOYMENT OF FARM OPERATORS [PDF]
Employment history affects subsequent choices. Based on their original job choice, operators are divided into farmers and workers. Equations are estimated to determine their probabilities of working off-the-farm.
Stallmann, Judith I., Nelson, James H.
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