Section 6.4, Compliance with Permit Requirements describes studies that evaluated several aspects of how well compensatory mitigation projects met legal or permit requirements. These included whether projects were completed or installed according to plan, whether they attained the required wetland acreage, whether performance standards were achieved, whether the project was monitored or maintai...

The commodity markets have been bidding for acreage due to increased corn and soybean demand for biofuels. Currently, the major decision facing producers is determining the enterprise mix for 2008 in the midst of higher commodity prices. This memo compares the Return over Variable Costs for soybeans and peanuts and analyzes the break-even yields and prices for non-irrigated and irrigated produc...

The commodity markets have been bidding for acreage due to biofuels creating increased demand for corn and soybeans. Currently, the major decision facing producers is determining the enterprise mix for 2008 in the midst of higher commodity prices. This memo compares the Return over Variable Costs for cotton and peanuts and analyzes the breakeven yields and prices for non-irrigated and irrigated...

NDVI obtained from satellite at the pixel over the area of crop cultivation would represent a specific temporal profile, which could be discriminated from that of other land use. In this study, the author attempted to estimate the acreage of winter wheat sown area using multitemporal NDVI obtained from NOAA-AVHRR data. The study site was selected in the Huang-Huai-Hai plain in China, where the ...