SIMULATION BASED RANKING OF VEGETABLE CASH CROPS FOR SUSTAINABLE GREENHOUSE FARMING PRACTICES

Economic performance of sustainable farming practices

One of the major goals of the Sustainable Agriculture Farming initiatives at UC Davis is to provide information about the feasibility of adopting conservation tillage and cover cropping at the farm level. The project includes two tillage schemes: standard tillage (ST) and conservation tillage (CT), and three farming methods: conventional, organic, and winter legume cover crop. All three product...

Consumer Perceptions of Sustainable Farming Practices: A Best-Worst Scenario

Building on existing work evaluating food-attribute labels, we use data collected in 2010 from a national web-based survey of 1,002 households to examine consumer inferences and valuations of food products promoted as “sustainably produced.” A best-worst scale framework was implemented to identify how consumers de ine “sustainably produced” and their preferences for each of the sustainable farm...

Food Researched: Salmon Focus of Research: Sustainable farming practices Name: Lucas Morrill Title Sustainable Salmon Farming Practices and Possible Mechanisms for Encouraging Their Practice

Sustainable Production Practices Adopted by Greenhouse and Nursery Plant Growers

Given recent consumer and market interest in more sustainable products and business practices, researchers conducted a nationwide survey of greenhouse and nursery crop growers to determine the current state of the industry in terms of sustainability. Growers were asked about the importance of sustainability, their views of state environmental regulations, sustainable practices in place and ones...

Greenhouse Protected Agriculture of Vegetable Crops at the University of Florida : An Overview

The Florida vegetable industry relies heavily on plasticulture technologies from the transplant nursery through the packing house and market chain. The value of the Florida vegetable industry has consistently risen while the acreage has declined for many commodities. The use of greenhouse technologies for high-valued crops is an alternative method of crop production that would compliment the cu...