Labor Cost and Technology Adoption: Least Squares Monte Carlo Method for the Case of Sugarcane Mechanization in Florida [PDF]
The prospect of immigration reform has renewed farmers’ concerns of serious labor shortages and cost increases, which may urge highly labor-intensive specialty crop farmers to switch to less-labor-intensive technology.
Emerson, Robert D. +2 more
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Labor Cost and Technology Adoption: Real Options Approach for the Case of Sugarcane Mechanization in Florida [PDF]
Specialty crop farmers have expressed concern about labor shortages and cost increases which may arise with immigration reform. The large-scale mechanization of the Florida sugarcane harvest during the 1970s/80s serves as an historical example of how ...
Emerson, Robert D. +2 more
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Engineered transfer of the PKS/NRPS biosynthesis pathway of albicidin: A promising approach to overproduce this potent antibiotic [PDF]
, 2006 Xanthomonas albilineans, which causes leaf scald disease of sugarcane, produces a highly potent pathotoxin and antibiotic called albicidin that was shown to inhibit DNA replication in both sugarcane proplastids and Escherichia coli.
Cociancich, Stéphane +7 more
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The beetles of St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles (Insecta: Coleoptera): diversity and distributions [PDF]
, 2009 The published beetle fauna of the island of St. Lucia is summarized. It contains 135 genera, and 175 species in 25 families. Four species are accidentally introduced by human activities. Twenty three species are endemic (restricted) to the island. Twenty
Peck, Stewart B.
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background For over 50 years, attempts have been made to introgress agronomically useful traits from Erianthus sect. Ripidium (Tripidium) species into sugarcane based on both genera being part of the ‘Saccharum Complex’, an interbreeding group of species
Dyfed Lloyd Evans +2 more
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SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS OF WIREWORMS (COLEOPTERA: ELATERIDAE) IN FLORIDA SUGARCANE FIELDS [PDF]
, 2007 Ron Cherry
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VERTICAL INTEGRATION AND TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF SUGAR [PDF]
The degree of vertical integration in the U.S. sugar industry between raw sugar processing and sugar refining cannot be explained using theories of vertical integration based on transaction costs (e.g. Williamson).
Moss, Charles B., Schmitz, Andrew
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Visacane, the Cirad quarantine tool for the exchange of pest and disease-free sugarcane germplasm [PDF]
, 2014 Sugarcane varietal improvement requires the introduction of vegetative propagation material. The continued increase of international and intercontinental trade of plants has led to the enforcement of quarantine measures in many countries before the ...
Daugrois, Jean-Heinrich +5 more
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Sequential Sampling for Wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) at Sugarcane Planting
EDIS, 2016 In the Everglades Agricultural Area of Florida, where sugarcane is planted on around 410,000 acres annually, wireworms are the most economically important insect pests of newly planted sugarcane.
Matthew T. VanWeelden, Ron Cherry
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THE EFFECT OF HARVESTING AND REPLANTING ON ARTHROPOD GROUND PREDATORS IN FLORIDA SUGARCANE [PDF]
, 2003 Ron Cherry
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