Policy makers within the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) complement the role of meat and poultry plant managers in food recalls. The increasing frequency and scale of recalls raise questions whether sufficient attention is placed on these events. Three measures of recall effectiveness are introduced to evaluate this public-private crisis management process. Managerial and technical variable...

Agriculture in Russia has some specifics such as large distribution, inclement climate and big market competition. Appearing of resources-economy, precision and management technologies demanded from agriculture companies new planning and control methods. The paper is dedicated to assembly charts planning in agriculture with multi-agent approach. For resources distribution we used method of virt...

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This paper investigates the use of machine learning techniques for word sense disambiguation. The aim is to improve on the performance of general-purpose methods, by making the disambiguation method adaptable to new domains. Results are presented here for two different test cases: financial news from the Wall Street Journal, extracted from the SEMCOR corpus, and general-theme news from the same...

This study used information about a farm in the Victorian Mallee during the period 1998 – 2005 to analyse the profitability of investing in Precision Agriculture and Site-Specific Crop Management technology and farming systems. Two equipment guidance systems were evaluated. Both guidance systems earned more than 8 percent real return p.a. on the extra capital invested. A Real-Time Kinetic (RTK)...

1997). New interdisciplinary approaches are needed to improve the understanding of complex interactions bePrecision agriculture (PA) has recently been defined by the U.S. tween multiple factors affecting crop growth and farm National Research Council as a management strategy that uses information technologies to bring data from multiple sources to bear on decision making. Unbiased, systematic a...

In the fifth development plan establishment, establishment of the Cadastre System of agriculture nationwide has been defined to be the work priority of institutions and organizations responsible in the area of agriculture and equity issuance in the country. In this study, the possibility of provision of the Cadastral mapping of agriculture by a integration of the data of the remote sensing and ...

In the fifth development plan establishment, establishment of the Cadastre System of agriculture nationwide has been defined to be the work priority of institutions and organizations responsible in the area of agriculture and equity issuance in the country. In this study, the possibility of provision of the Cadastral mapping of agriculture by a integration of the data of the remote sensing and ...

Precision agriculture (PA) is an information-based technology, using detailed information within an agricultural field to optimize production inputs on a spatially variable basis, maximize farm profit, and minimize environmental impact. Information collection and processing plays a very important role in PA. In recent years PA technologies have been gradually adopted in cotton production. Sever...