Executive Summary This study assesses the contribution of agriculture to Wisconsin's economy. Building on the analysis of Deller (2004), we use data from 2007 in this study. By using 2007 as the year of analysis, we are able to build on the current Census of Agriculture, which provides detailed data for 2007. We also explore changes in aggregate measures of agriculture from 1990 to 2007, and mo...

Background: Consistent with Rule 100 of Michigan’s Water Quality Standards (WQS), Lake Allegan is protected for warmwater fishery, other indigenous aquatic life and wildlife, agriculture, navigation, industrial water supply, partial body contact recreation, and total body contact recreation. Prioritization of the Lake Allegan TMDL was driven by Michigan’s five-year rotating watershed assessment...

ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Faculty of Science, Bayliss Building M316, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia (K.B., S.H., O.V.A., A.H.M.); Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Agriculture and Food, Wembley, Washington 6913, Australia (L.F.T., H.C., K.B.S.); and University of Wes...

In November 2005, 55.7 percent of 2 million Swiss voters approved a 5-year moratorium (ban) on the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants within Switzerland. The present study examines how individual voting decisions were determined by (i) socioeconomic characteristics, (ii) political preference/ideology and (iii) agreement with a series of arguments in favour and against th...