The retirement decisions of individuals are strongly influenced by spousal retirement, financial incentives and institutional constraints such as access to early retirement benefits. In the European Union (EU), farm retirement is encouraged by early retirement provisions for farmers. As exit from farming determines the characteristics of structural change in agriculture, it is important to find...

As the farming landscape changes, farmers are now more than ever required to be in control of their farming businesses. The successful extension program, Feeding Pastures for Profit (FPFP), supports dairy farmers through providing the principles, skills and tools to make profitable feed management decisions on a daily basis. Aside from increasing the profitability of participants in the program...

despite considerable effort in developing climate information and demonstrating the potential benefits available to farmers, use of the climate information by farmers in farming decisions has not changed. the present research employed the theory of planned behaviour (tpb) as a theoretical framework to analyze the antecedents of agricultural climate information use behaviour. fars province wheat...

Challenges in linking meteorological and climatological information with a wide range of farming decisions are addressed in this paper. In particular, while a considerable amount of weather and climate information is now available for farmers, some types of information under development or already operational, particularly climate forecasting, formation, may be ill-suited for use by farmers for...

Weather risk causes uncertain crop yield and price further influences the willingness of farmers to participate in contract farming honour contract. In this study, we investigate optimal decisions for between a profit-maximizing manufacturer multiple identical under weather risk, using game-theoretical approach. We discuss two different cases. first case, sets ensure any condition. While second...

Decision-making approaches, the factors a€ecting them, the role of the decision-making units and the actors involved in farming decisions were studied in 91 Costa Rican farmers using a classi®cation procedure. Farmers were asked to classify 18 farming decisions (systematically selected from a pool of 100) into a series of categories of decision-making units (Alone, Family, Shared, Delegated) an...

This study was conducted to investigate the scenario of buffalo production and reproduction under different farming systems at Subarno Char, in the coastal area of Bangladesh. A total of 14 farms were randomly selected and studied for various traits live weight (LW); daily milk yield (DMY); lactation length (LL); lactation production (LP); calving interval (CI); gestation length (GL); post part...