National agricultural extension and advisory systems have undergone major changes during the past two decades. These changes have been attributed to the success of the Green Revolution, commercialisation of agriculture and trade liberalization. In addition, transnational corporations develop a wide range of new technologies, which directly impact on agricultural production in developed and deve...

1. Importance of Agricultural Equipment Choice and Operation 2. Methods of Obtaining Access to Equipment 3. Equipment Costs 4. Equipment Selection 4.1 Individual Equipment Selection 4.2 Matching Equipment 5. Equipment Operation 5.1 Equipment Operation Co-ordination 5.2 Operation Productivity 5.3 Equipment Safety 5.4 Equipment Maintenance during Operation 6. Automation of Agricultural Equipment ...

1Agricultural Bioinformatics Research Unit, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan 2Laboratory for Cellular Systems Modeling, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan 3Laboratory of Environmental Biochemistry, Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan 4Gene Expression...

Conventional wisdom postulates that leaching losses of N from agriculture systems are dominated by NO(3)(-). Although the export of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) into the groundwater has been recognized for more than 100 yr, it is often ignored when total N budgets are constructed. Leaching of DON into stream and drinking water reservoirs leads to eutrophication and acidification, and can po...

Citation: Antle JM, Mu JE, Zhang H, Capalbo SM, Diebel PL, Eigenbrode SD, Kruger CE, Stöckle CO, Wulfhorst JD and Abatzoglou JT (2017) Design and Use of Representative Agricultural Pathways for Integrated Assessment of Climate Change in U.S. Pacific Northwest Cereal-Based Systems. Front. Ecol. Evol. 5:99. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00099 Design and Use of Representative Agricultural Pathways for In...

I NDIGENOUS Oceanic agricultural systems have concerned anthropologists for decades, an extension of an older botanical concern with Malayo-Oceanic flora, including cultigens. Only in the past few years, however, have hypotheses concerning the development of agriculture in Oceania moved beyond ethnobotanical speculation to attempts at direct archaeological testing. The earlier botanical and ant...

Agricultural drain tile systems are a significant influence on the condition of wetlands and waterways. The influence of these systems is often difficult to determine since installation records are incomplete or were never kept. Using a modified decision class tree and raster analysis in ArcGIS, a model for predicting the location of land drained by subsurface systems was evaluated. The three-c...

This paper argues that the largely unrealized potential of agricultural science and technology (S&T) in promoting growth and poverty reduction in developing countries results from deeply rooted incompatibility among policy environments, institutional arrangements, and micro conditions and behavior in agricultural research and development (R&D). Achieving growth and poverty reduction based on gr...

In response to the need for generic remote sensing tools to support large-scale agricultural monitoring, we present a new approach for regional-scale mapping of agricultural land-use systems (ALUS) based on object-based Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time series analysis. The approach consists of two main steps. First, to obtain relatively homogeneous land units in terms of pheno...

Rigorous application of a simple definition of what constitutes opposition to agricultural biotechnology readily encompasses a wide array of key players in national and international systems of food production, distribution and governance. Even though the sum of political and financial benefits of opposing agricultural biotechnology appears vastly to outweigh the benefits which accrue to provid...