From 1985 to 2002, most Federal conservation dollars going to farm operators have been to retire land from crop production. Yet most U.S. farmland (850 million acres) remains in active production. The Farm Security and Rural Investment (FSRI) Act of 2002 sharply increased conservation funding and earmarked most of the increase for working-land payment programs (WLPPs). The design and implementa...

The rapid increase of paddy field acreage has led to widely descending of groundwater table in well irrigation paddy area of low-land in Sanjiang Plain recent years. More and more “hanging pump” and partial over pumping phenomenon have been occurring in well irrigation paddy area of low-land. Therefore, the groundwater resources in Sanjiang Plain need to be recharged urgently. For solving the m...

roducers now have the tools (grain carts with load cells, yield monitors, GPS) to do on-farm field research. Additionally, growers are being made aware of more and more products/management options that they might use. One might read farm magazines, talk to neighbors, attend extension and industry presentations, but still wonder whether a particular recommendation would be of benefit. So the que...

Grazing businesses with a proportion of native grassland may face the choice of reassigning the rights to use an area of native grassland to the public. In analysing this choice it is important to establish the future situation of the farm business with and without the area of land in question, including the possibility of further development of production capacity on other areas of the farm. T...

As the size of livestock farms in The Netherlands is on the increase for economic reasons, an important question is how disease introduction risks and risks of onward transmission scale with farm size (i.e. with the number of animals on the farm). Here we use the epidemic data of the 1997-1998 epidemic of Classical Swine Fever (CSF) Virus in The Netherlands to address this question for CSF risk...

t he purpose of this study was to examine farm operations cooperation groups in central agricultural zone of delta state, nigeria. all the members of the six  selected groups were used for the study. the data which were collected with the use of questionnaire and interview schedule were analyzed with the use of frequency counts, percentages and tobit regression model. most of the members were ...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the risk of interactions that may lead to the transmission of Mycobacterium bovis between cattle and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on farms in northern Minnesota. SAMPLE 53 cattle farms in northwestern Minnesota adjacent to an area where bovine tuberculosis-infected cattle and deer were detected. PROCEDURES A semiquantitative deer-cattle interaction as...

  T he purpose of this study was to examine farm operations cooperation groups in Central Agricultural Zone of Delta State, Nigeria. All the members of the six  selected groups were used for the study. The data which were collected with the use of questionnaire and interview schedule were analyzed with the use of frequency counts, percentages and Tobit regression model. Most of the members we...