This excellent little book will be of great interest to many readers of this journal, in that it treats in considerable detail the concepts, tools, and techniques of precision agriculture (PA), to help ensure food security for future generations. All over the world, more and more grain farmers are adopting the PA methodology, as well as in a broad range of other cropping industries. The book, w...

The mission of the Cooperative Extension Service, as a component of the land-grant university system, is to disseminate new knowledge and to foster its application and use. Opportunities and challenges facing animal agriculture in the United States have changed dramatically over the past few decades and require the use of new approaches and emerging technologies that are available to extension ...

A movement has ignited amongst government agencies to extend their efforts for obtaining wide input on contentious public issues. These projects face challenges related to scale and political capture. But new sociotechnical approaches that leverage nascent structures of distributed work and interaction exhibited in the social web may help address these issues. Instead of emphasizing the exchang...

One of the main issues in cooperative enterprise planning and scheduling is how to re-assign tasks without involving too many components of every enterprise and implying too many changes in the whole system. We propose a new system that is able to re-schedule tasks in cooperative multisite production automatically avoiding one of the main problems that have schedule programmers that are in char...

The mission of the Cooperative Extension Service, as a component of the land-grant university system, is to disseminate new knowledge and to foster its application and use. Opportunities and challenges facing animal agriculture in the United States have changed dramatically over the past few decades and require the use of new approaches and emerging technologies that are available to extension ...

The 2 1 st century challenges for genetic improvement are as they have always been and as they will always be for any century: lkeep it simple; 2harness the theory and the practice of selection into the shaping of an ideal that is economically meaningful within the context of the specific production and marketing environments; 3creatively and effectively combine the available stocks in the shap...

The present pattern of British Agriculture has been determined by the physical factors of climate, soil and topography, on which are superimposed technical and economic factors. In considering the potential for change we must work within the physical limitations, assume that an optimum balance of food nutrients supplied by home agriculture could be defined and that economic restraints would be ...

Cooperative learning is a teaching approach in which students work cooperatively in small teams with individuals of different talents, abilities and background to complete a common goal. This study was set out to examine the views about cooperative learning in domain of group projects of graduating students of the Departments of Statistics and Economics of Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi...