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...

Ongoing economic losses by and exposure of humans to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in poultry flocks across Asia and parts of Africa and Europe motivate also outbreak-free countries such as Switzerland to invest in preparedness planning. Country-specific population data on between-farm contacts are required to anticipate probable patterns of pathogen spread. Information is scarce; in...

Western Power is the principal supplier of electricity in the Australian state of Western Australia. The company services a land area of about 2.5 million square kilometres, which includes many remote and isolated communities which rely almost entirely on expensive diesel powered electricity. However, the wind resource in Western Australia is by world standards very good, so to offset the use o...

Farming within the Anabaptist (within this article defined as various religious groups that do not believe in infant baptism; Amish, Hutterites, Mennonites, and Brethren are included within the definition and usually practice selective use of technology) population creates a unique situation with regards to teaching farm safety and health to children. Children working at an age younger than typ...

Introduction: Wind speed probability at a site has to be modeled for evaluating the energy generation potential of a wind farm. Analytical computation of wind turbine capacity factor at the planning stage of a wind farm is very crucial. Thus, the comparison of Weibull parameters estimation methods and computation of wind turbine capacity factor are the focus of this paper. Case description: Sod...