Abstract Crop Profiles and Pest Management Strategic Plans are two sources of data that describe current historical pest management practices for settings (e.g., agricultural commodities, schools, specialty crops, etc.) in the United States territories. The development documents began 1998 as a response to Food Quality Protection Act ensure collection required registration pesticides. These pri...

Profitable new crop alternatives have been needed by US farmers for most of the peacetime history of the nation but evidence of comprehensive strategic planning is lacking. Lack of new crop options has been very costly in economic, environmental, social, and political terms and the US trails several countries in strategic planning for new crops development. The long-term, high-risk nature of ne...

Monitoring crop condition and production estimates at the state and county level is of great interest to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducts field interviews with sampled farm operators and obtains crop cuttings to make crop yield estimates at regional and state levels. NASS needs supplemental sp...

iranian pistachio is one of the strategic crops within most agricultural commodities having the highest income from exports for the country and a significant share of the country's non-oil exports but the marketing and packaging technologies for this crop are at a low level in comparison with competing countries like usa. in recent years the rate of production and its exports have decreased dra...

during the last few decades scientific researches in different fields of agricultural sciences have been grown drastically. however, there is no published study, if any, on structural analysis of the national agricultural research system of iran and setting priorities for the future. in the present study 2361 scientific papers published during the three decades in the domestic journals were sur...

Implementing strategic tillage (ST) in otherwise long-term no-till (NT) systems could control herbicide resistant weeds and increase profitability of crop production semi-arid dryland cropping systems. For the purpose this study, ST is defined as a single event (once every 6-10 years) an NT system to reduce density tolerant grass weeds. However, there little information on (>5 effects soil heal...

by application of climatic zoning methods, it is possible to study different agricultural aspects and then with harmony this aspects, determined similar states in a zone. today, simulation models are widely used around the world in agricultural research and education and cropland management. due to the vast extent of the agricultural activities in iran, application of such models seems to be qu...

Crop productivity is improved by ecosystem services, including pollination, but this should be set in the context of trade-offs among multiple management practices. We investigated the impact of pollination services on coffee production, considering variation in fertilization, irrigation, shade cover, and environmental variables such as rainfall (which stimulates coffee flowering across all pla...