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Group of baby ostriches hatching from their eggs, South Pasadena, ca.1900

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Photograph of a group of 7 baby ostriches hatching from their eggs on an ostrich farm in South Pasadena, ca.1900. Two of them are on their feet, two are sitting, and three are still wet and barely out of their shells.

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Health, welfare and lifetime performance implications of alternative hatching and early life management systems for broiler chickens.

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Broiler chicks are typically hatched in a hatchery, exposing them to handling and transportation before being placed on the farm where (dry) feed and water is offered.
Hugo Hanna, Anne Richmond, Ursula Lavery, Niamh E O'Connell   +3 more
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Off-farm Income and Risky Investments: What Happens to Farm and Nonfarm Assets? [PDF]

Off-farm work improves and reduces the riskiness of household income. Theoretical analyses reveal that the level and riskiness of off-farm income affect demand for farm/nonfarm investments.
Ramaswami, Bharat, Andersson, Hans, Moss, Charles B., Nehring, Richard F., Hallahan, Charles B., Erickson, Kenneth W.   +5 more
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Space, Government Payments, and Off-Farm Labor Response of Principal Farm Operators: A County-Level Analysis [PDF]

We examine the effects of space and government payments on off-farm employment among principal farm operators for the entire US as well as for ERS/USDA farm resource regions.
Findeis, Jill L., Shrestha, Sundar S.
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Financing Constraints and the Family Farm: How do Families React? [PDF]

This paper explores the idea that off-farm income is used for investment in farm assets. Using Alabama farm data for the 1997-2004 period, we find that farm investment is more sensitive to off-farm than to on-farm income, and that this sensitivity is ...
Mai, Chi, Hartarska, Valentina M.
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Policy Reform and Off-farm Labor Supply by Operators in the Delta Region: A [PDF]

Off-farm employment has been an integral part of the emerging structure of production agriculture in the South. Government farm program payments, farm structure, and strong non-farm economy have important impact on labor allocation, farm and non-farm ...
Mishra, Ashok K., Paudel, Krishna P.
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Serological Survey and Initial Control of <i>Mycoplasma gallisepticum</i> and <i>Mycoplasma synoviae</i> Infections in Breeder Flocks of Chinese Native Chickens. [PDF]

Pathogens
Yu Y, Liu M, Zhang Y, Shen X, Li J, Yang Q, Xue M, Dai Y.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND ON-FARM WHEAT ALLOCATION IN RURAL CHINA [PDF]

Market-oriented policy reforms have potentially important effects on farm-level grain production and utilization decisions in developing countries. This paper provides an empirical evaluation of the potential effects of market liberalization in China on ...
Smith, Vincent H., Di, Hua, Buschena, David E.   +2 more
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Assessing the carbon footprint of egg production from white and brown laying hens under a no-culling male chick system: a Dutch case study. [PDF]

Poult Sci
Pishgar-Komleh SH, Mostert PF.
europepmc   +1 more source

THE IMPACT OF LOCAL LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS ON THE OFF-FARM EARNINGS OF FARM OPERATORS [PDF]

Local labor market characteristics are theoretically relevant to the determination of off-farm earnings of farm operators, but the empirical analysis of these effects has been hindered by a lack of appropriate data.
McNamara, Kevin T., Gunter, Lewell F.
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