OBJECTIVE Estimate the annual US incidence and cost of fatal and nonfatal youth injury in agricultural settings. METHODS We used 2001-2006 Childhood Agricultural Injury Survey data to estimate the incidence of nonfatal injury and 2001-2006 Multiple Cause of Death data to estimate the incidence of fatal injury. To estimate the costs for injuries suffered by youth working/living in agricultural...

The number of nurses across the United States with expertise in agricultural health nursing is unknown, yet as many as 8,000 are needed. This article describes agricultural health content in nursing programs in the southeastern United States. Agriculture is primarily family based but ranks among the top three most hazardous industries in America. Nurses in the southeastern United States serve m...

In this article, the reasonswhydeveloping countries trade fewer agricultural products than developed countries are analyzed. Based on earlier findings that low trade volume in the agricultural sector is due to high trade costs, the focus is on evaluating the extent to which bilateral trade costs in the agricultural sector differ among trading partners. Using a neo-Ricardian trade model, the res...

The paper introduces the problems in china’s agricultural machinery information. We provide an architecture for the agricultural machinery intelligent scheduling in cross-regional work. We put forward constructing the private cloud of agricultural machinery with the aid of cloud computing technology, and forward agricultural machinery will link together through Internet of Things technology. We...

With the development of agriculture technology, people not only pay more attention to increase agricultural production, but ask more requirements for agricultural products’ quality. It promotes all kinds of detection technology applied in agriculture, in which machine visual technology is used widely in the inspection of agricultural products. As the corresponding technology of new sensor is de...

William S. Conway a,∗, Wojciech J. Janisiewicz b, Britta Leverentz a, Robert A. Saftner a, Mary J. Camp c a Produce Quality and Safety Laboratory, Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD 20705, United States b Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agric...

Beginning with the current situation of agricultural information construction in Jiamusi area, the achievements obtained from agricultural information construction are clearly known by discussing current work conditions. On the basis of thorough investigation, the existing problems of agricultural information construction are found. The reasons of these problems are analyzed in detail, and then...

We empirically investigate the relationship between agricultural development and proximity to military forts in Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado in 1880. Agricultural investments are substantially higher in counties where a military fort is present, suggesting that military forts stimulated agricultural development on the Great Plains. However, the reverse is not true; there is no statistical sup...

Agricultural land use commonly leaves a persistent signature on the ecosystems that develop after agricultural abandonment. Th is agricultural legacy limits the biodiversity supported by post-agricultural habitats compared to remnant habitats that have never been used for agriculture. In particular, beta diversity (variation in community composition across space) at both large and small spatial...

BACKGROUND Agricultural injuries are an important health concern for pediatric populations and particularly for children of pre school age. This study was conducted to estimate rates and determine patterns of fatal agricultural injury among young children exposed to agricultural hazards and to identify strategies to prevent such injuries. METHODS A national case series was assembled retrospec...