The farming community, in many parts of Australia, is widely dispersed and heavily dependent upon communication both within the community and outside. In this preliminary paper we explore the information needs and information flows of the rural sector and consider the farm as the potential focus of a virtual community. A virtual community may form a basis both for electronic commerce, in the tr...

43 Solidified floating organic drop micro-extraction (SFODME) for simultaneous separation/pre-concentration and determination of cadmium by atomic absorption spectroscopy R. Parviz, M. Honari Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Islamic Azad University Shahr-E-Rey Branch, Shahr-E-Rey, Iran Department of Plant Breading and Biotechnology, Agriculture and Natural Resources Faculty, Tehran ...

Brittney L. Schurmann, Matthew E. Walpole, Pawel Górka, John C. H. Ching, Matthew E. Loewen, and Gregory B. Penner Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Management, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Krakow, Poland; and Department of Biomedical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medic...

E. KEBREAB *, J. FRANCE , H. DARMANI KUHI AND S. LOPEZ 4 1Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada 2Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 3School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, The University of Reading, Earley Gate,Reading RG6 6AR,UK Departamento de Producción Animal, Universidad de León, E-2...

Investing in research and development spending (R&D) affects total factor productivity (TFP).Recently new theories of economic growth have emphasized the relationship between R&D and TFPand also identified a number of channels through which a country’s R&D affects TFP of its tradepartner. This study seeks to estimate the effect of agricultural R&D and education spending and someother factors on...

The financial surplus of agriculture has been central to theories of the role of agriculture in economic development. Morrisson and Thorbecke (MT) have used a constant-price social accounting matrix (SAM) framework to rigorously measure the financial surplus of agriculture and decompose the mechanisms of surplus extraction. History and theory have, however, stressed the role of prices as an inv...

SOCIETY OF NEMATOLOGISTS 43 ANNUAL MEETING ESTES PARK, COLORADO 7–11 AUGUST 2004 CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTAGONISTIC RHIZOBACTERIA TO CONTROL MELOIDOGYNE JAVANICA ON TOMATO. Abadir, Seham K., A. E. Tawfik, and F. W. Raid. Plant Pathology Institute, Agriculture Research Center,

J. Anim. Sci. Vol. 88, E-Suppl. 2/J. Dairy Sci. Vol. 93, E-Suppl. 1/Poult. Sci. Vol. 89, E-Suppl. 1 1029 Characterization of physical factors affecting ruminal lipolytic activity in vitro. H. D. Edwards*1, M. D. Hardin1, R. K. Miller1, N. A. Krueger2, R. C. Anderson2, and D. J. Nisbet2, 1Texas A&M University, College Station, 2USDA/ARS, Southern Plains Agriculture Research Center, Food and Feed...

J. Anim. Sci. Vol. 88, E-Suppl. 2/J. Dairy Sci. Vol. 93, E-Suppl. 1/Poult. Sci. Vol. 89, E-Suppl. 1 T238 Viability of Lactobacillus plantarum in different protective agents and its effects on growth performance and immunity of weaned pigs. J. Wang, H. F. Ji*, R. L. Ge, S. X. Wang, D. Y. Zhang, and Y. M. Wang, Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing Academy of Agriculture ...