This study provides a spatially comprehensive assessment of sustainable agricultural residue removal potential across the United States for bioenergy production. Earlier assessments determining the quantity of agricultural residue that could be sustainably removed for bioenergy production at the regional and national scale faced a number of computational limitations. These limitations included ...

within the broader category of rural tourism, agrotourism is a type of tourism carried out in avery specific environment, mixed livestock and tillage farms. its importance resides in the fact that it offers the possibility of complementing the income generated by the farm with income generated from tourism while at the same time carrying out an activity that promotes the conservation of nature....

the purpose of this paper was to determine the factors affecting farmers’ satisfaction from water users associations (wuas) in the harran plain-turkey. the data used in this study come from a sample of 378 farmers among 23,204 in the şanlıurfa-harran plain. they were chosen via simple random sampling method and interviewed face to face. sampling was conducted in 52% of the settlements. to analy...

this study provides a framework and definition to the notion of talent management process and describes how it fits the human resources architecture of agricultural higher education system in iran. this qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews for data collection and systematic grounded theory methods for data analysis. for this study, we selected and interviewed 15 expe...

Agricultural mechanics is an important part of the total agricultural education program (Phipps, 1983). In many courses, the time allocated for instruction in agricultural mechanics comprises 25-40% of the total instructional time (Phipps, 1980). Much of the agricultural mechanics instruction takes place in the agricultural mechanics laboratory. Therefore, efficient management of the agricultur...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was fundamentally reformed in 2003. From 2005, farmers will receive decoupled income support payments instead of production premiums if basic standards for environment, food safety, animal health and welfare are met. Farmers are likely to adjust production and management practices to the new policy framework. We describe how this reform fits into the EU stra...

Business system modeling of an agricultural enterprise is one of the difficulties in developing and researching an agricultural enterprise management information system. Given the inadequate description of concurrent and synchronal events in the traditional modeling methods, this paper presents a modeling method, which uses Colored Petri Net. The paper discusses the application of Colored Petri...

Agricultural nutrients play a critical role in food production and human nutrition in China. Against this backdrop, agricultural extension services are essential for providing farmers with knowledge and information about nutrient management. By using a propensity score-matching (PSM) approach, this study examines the impact of agricultural extension on farmer nutrient management behavior. Surve...