If you were asked who are the best dairy farmers in Michigan, who would you name? Many of us would think about those who have the highest milk production per cow. Some might name those with the best registered cattle. Some might answer with those that seem most profitable, for profitability is unquestionably essential for the sustainability of the farm. But most of us know that there is somethi...

The participants from State include: George Christy, Thomas Godard, Harold Vaughn, Seniors;; Walter Parmer '51. Representing State in the Congressional Discussion will be George Christy, Thomas Goddard a n d Harold Vaughn, Seniors, and Paul LeBrun, Walter Farmer and Edwin Kurlander, Juniors. Miss Elnora M. Drafahl, Instructor in English, will act as one of the judges. Two members of the group, ...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.05.019 1367-9120/ 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +98 5138218146, mobile: +98 9155011318; fax: +98 5138212402. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (R.M. Bagherzadeh), [email protected] (M.H. Karimpour), [email protected] (G.L. Farmer), [email protected] (C.R. Stern), [email protected] (J.F. Santos)...

Paul E Farmer professor 1 2 , Cameron T Nutt research fellow , Claire M Wagner research fellow , Claude Sekabaraga senior health financing specialist, Tej Nuthulaganti human resources for health program director, Jonathan LWeigel doctoral candidate, Didi Bertrand Farmer director of community health and social development , Antoinette Habinshuti deputy director of Rwanda progammes , Soline Dusab...

The study sought to explore approaches for co-creation of conservation agriculture (CA) knowledge amongst farmers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), government and specialist researchers. The aim of the study was to explore farmer initiated food security strategies among small holder resource poor farmers, through enhancement of farmers’ own productive capacity. The study was born out of th...

Solar power is used as only the source of power to control the overall system. Sensors are placed on the paddy field and these sensors continuously sense the water content and give the message to the farmer. Without visiting the paddy fields, farmers can get the information about the Moisture content and farmer can control the pump set by sending a message from his cellular phone even from a re...

Body height and mass were determined in girls aged 10.5-18.5 years in three periods: 1977 (n = 1028), 1987 (n = 1255) and in 1997 (n = 1992). The families of those girls were classified into three categories: farmers, farmer-workers and non-farmers. The economical crisis affected predominantly the rural non-farmer population while farmers were most independent from food rationing. After the cha...