The technique of the processor farm has become very widely used for paral-lelising applications, often being mentioned without reference to any source. The goal of this work has been to put together a complete and rigorous understanding of what the technique can be used for and what is needed in order to arrive at an eeciently farmed application. This paper consists of these two parts. We have ...

This contribution is based on the personal experiences of the author as a typical crop farmer in Holland in 1925-1991, as a researcher at the Dutch Institute of Agricultural Engineering (19541964), and as the Director of that Institute in the period 1964-1983. In essence, the 20th century developments in mechanized agriculture are considered from a historical perspective. The future of farm mec...

The objective of this study is to develop a wind farm placement and investment methodology based on linear optimization procedure. This problem has major significance for the success projects renewable energy such as power. In study, mesoscale approach adopted whereby location investigated in comparison with microscale where each individual turbine optimized. Specifical focuses by economical co...

This study analyzed the economics of feeding dried poultry droppings as supplement in ram production. Gross margin analysis and profitability ratio was used to analyze the data collected. The result of the budgetary analysis revealed that highest total cost of ₦5292.98/ram was incurred, highest total revenue of ₦7565.40/ram, highest gross margin of ₦3272.41/ram and highest net farm income of ₦2...

Popular government presupposes the existence of liberty, equality, and justice as its fundamental principles. Theoretically these principles prevail in Michigan. Practically they do not. How is it as to political rights ? One-half of the people, though subject to the laws, have no voice in making those laws. Their right to vote and the right of the people to cast their votes for them is denied....

Evaluating the Economics of Solar PV Systems Solar energy has been expanding in the U.S. and globally recently, as have other renewable energy sources such as wind, hydro, and biomass, because they are clean and sustainable. Solar energy can easily be installed by individual consumers at a relatively small-scale and may be more profitable compared to electricity from grids under certain conditi...

Goat farming is an important production sector not only for Greece, but also other Mediterranean countries, as it contributes to the family economy in rural areas. Despite importance of goat farming, this has experienced economic difficulties due poor management and increased costs. The aim our research determine farm profitability by surveying farmers revenues, variable costs, fixed costs thei...

Little attention has been paid to the diagnosis of deficiencies of micronutrients such as zinc (Zn) and boron (B) and secondary nutrient such as sulphur (S) in rainfed systems. We evaluated Zn, B and S status of 1617 farmers’ fields in 14 districts of the semi-arid tropical India. Results showed that most of the soil samples were low to medium in organic carbon contents. Results also revealed t...