The expansion of modern agriculture has led to the loss and fragmentation of natural habitat, resulting in a global decline in biodiversity, including bees. In many countries, farmers can participate in cost-share programs to create natural habitat on their farms for the conservation of beneficial insects, such as bees. Despite their dependence on bee pollinators and the demonstrated commitment...

Results from long-term experimental trials suggest that similar yields and lower costs are possible from organic compared with conventional field crop production, but there is little information about the relative costs and returns on commercial farms. This study examines the structure and profitability of commercial wheat production using a nationwide survey of wheat producers for 2009 that in...

The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of occupational asthma and sensitization to workplace allergens in greenhouse flower and/or ornamental plant growers. A random sample of 40 growers who cultivated such crops and had participated in the European Farmers' Study was selected for a cross-sectional study that included (1) greenhouse characteristics and air contaminants (dus...

On-farm demonstration trials have been used for many years to introduce new techniques and management practices to farmers. With new precision agriculture technology, it is now possible to work more effectively using whole fields instead of small test plots. Sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) growers in the Drayton, ND, and St. Thomas, ND, sugarbeet cooperative districts have delivered sugarbeet hist...

Basically all organisms can be classified as determinate growers if their growth stops or almost stops at maturation, or indeterminate growers if growth is still intense after maturation. Adult size for determinate growers is relatively well defined, whereas in indeterminate growers usually two measures are used: size at maturation and asymptotic size. The latter term is in fact not a direct me...

We analyze the contract settlement data of a poultry company who contracts the production of broiler chickens with a group of independent growers. The company originally used rank-order (ordinal) tournaments to compensate their contract growers and later switched to cardinal tournaments. Based on the observed payment mechanism we construct an empirical model of a rank-order tournament game and ...

The study of poverty and income in equality are the most important subjects of social/ economic research in agriculture sector. The present study focuses on poverty and income inequality among pistachio growers in Kerman province. Absolute poverty line, relative poverty line, poverty gap and intensity were calculated. Also income distribution was investigated using Ginny coefficient, Lorenz cur...

Global climate change may result in major environmental issues that have already affected and will continue to affect agricultural sector the future. A continuing effort utilize adopt new technologies is necessary mitigate increase income. Agricultural cooperatives are gradually being used emerging countries encourage improved technology reduce food insecurity poverty. This research analyses in...

Research Brief #15 4) This research found that growers were relatively mixed in their evaluations of the necessity of fumigants to the viability of their operations and to the viability of the strawberry industry as a whole. Some growers said that they would be unable to stay in business if fumigants were phased out, while others were nonplussed by the prospect of an eventual phase-out, arguing...

The International Tobacco Growers’ Association is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation founded in 1984 by tobacco growers’ organisations from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Malawi, the U.S.A. and Zimbabwe. The ITGA was created with the objective of providing a collective voice for growers from all over the world. In 1999 the ITGA’s head-office moved to Castelo Branco, Portugal, where the ...