Structural best management practices were implemented throughout the Cannonsville Reservoir Watershed (CRW) in an effort to reduce P losses to the reservoir. Yet long-term water quality control efforts within CRW are hindered by continuous P build-up in the soils resulting from dairy farm P imports exceeding exports. Addressing the P imbalance problems and maintaining economic viability of the ...

This paper examines the impact of participation in direct marketing on the entire distribution of farm sales using the unconditional quantile regression (UQR) estimator. Our analysis yields unbiased estimates of the unconditional impact of direct marketing on farm sales and reveals the heterogeneous effects that occur across the distribution of farm sales. The impacts of direct marketing effort...

Although the presence of physicians in formal leadership positions has often been limited to roles of department chiefs, MAC chairs, etc., a growing number of organizations are recruiting physicians to other leadership positions (e.g., VP, CEO) where their involvement is being genuinely sought and valued. While physicians have traditionally risen to leadership positions based on clinical excell...

The purpose of this paper is to present how the fuzzy goal programming (FGP) in the area of mathematical programming (MP) can be efficiently used for modeling and solving agricultural planning problems to achieve the target levels of production of various crops cultivated in different seasons in a year and make the profit by allocating the cultivable land properly and utilising the available pr...

Common belief and some empirical evidence indicates that productivity of a farmer may increase with age, reach some maximum level, and then decrease with further age (Tauer 1984; Tauer 1995). If productivity exhibits a life-cycle pattern, then productivity of agriculture may decrease as the U.S. farm population continues to age. Lifecycle changes are also critical in planning for succession of ...

The evolution of farm size and land use are important determinants the efficiency profitability agriculture configuration territory. In this paper, a conceptual framework number farms is presented, arguing that major determinant change in presence or absence successors to ageing farmers these socio-demographic variables shape sector terms size, while they do not significantly affect changes far...

1 Emotional intelligence competency tests and metrics are needed and should be included in executive management assessment processes to maximize organizational performance and shareholder wealth over the long run Success stories of companies that have implemented succession planning and leadership development programs that include EIC assessment and development ..