_________________________________________________ 1 Murray Fulton is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. Konstantinos Giannakas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This is University of Nebraska-Lincoln Agricultural Research Division Article No. 13269. The a...

National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) P. O. Box 7065 Kampala, Uganda. Department of Botany, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, 74 Lunnon Road, Hillcrest, Pretoria South Africa. Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Univer...

The central argument in this report is that most policy research on African agriculture is irrelevant to agricultural and overall economic policy in Africa, and that the policy research community—and the agricultural economics profession in particular—must shoulder a significant part of the blame for this state of affairs. A wide-ranging review of recent research reveals that agricultural econo...

(CASNR) dates back to 1869 when the university was designated as Tennessee’s federal land-grant institution. Under terms of the Federal Land-Grant Act, the university was enabled for the first time to offer instruction in agriculture. Later, federal legislation provided resources for agricultural research and extension programming for dissemination of research findings to the people of Tennesse...

Advance applied science researches have experienced a dramatic change in knowledge and an exponential increase in technology. A lot of these technical developments involve agricultural researches and these researches deal with groups rather than individual cases and usually field and experimental study. The goal of applied research is to provide data to support existing knowledge by filling inf...

Abstract The U.S. Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) has been a leader in weed science research covering topics ranging from the development and use integrated management (IWM) tactics to basic mechanistic studies, including biotic resistance desirable plant communities herbicide resistance. ARS scientists have worked agricultural natural ecosystems, agronomic ho...

Agricultural research drives increases in agricultural productivity, and the number of private agricultural input firms has been declining. The empirical relationship between the number of firms doing applied biotechnology crop research and the amount of research output they produce is investigated in a research profit function model. Increases in seed industry concentration have reduced biotec...

to evaluate the genetic diversity in sardari bread wheat landrace, purification and selection of lines with good agronomic traits, were carried out for ten cropping seasons (1995-2006) in maragheh and six other dryland agricultural research stations. one hundred and six individual spikes were selected among sardari landrace in the first phase of study (1995- 2000). results of morph-physiologica...

1. This document is Circular 1454, one of a series from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: October 2006. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Brian Boman, professor, Indian River Research and Education Center, Ft. Pierce; S...