A growing number of studies have shown that adequate spatial access to healthy foods leads to increased fresh produce consumption and reduced risk of chronic diseases. Annual dynamics of spatial access to 1,539 vendors of fresh produce (including farmers markets and roadside farm stands) are analyzed in Massachusetts. Travel distance to the nearest fresh produce vendor was calculated for each c...

This chapter analyzes the technical efficiency of banana production among Ugandan smallholders by estimating a stochastic production frontier model with inefficiency effects. The empirical models are formulated within the overarching framework of the agricultural household specified in Chapter 2. The data design is also summarized in Chapter 2, although additional information about soil quality...

The economic well-being of most U.S. farm households depends on income from both onfarm and off-farm activities. Consequently, for many farm households, economic decisions (including technology adoption and other production decisions) are likely to be shaped by the allocation of managerial time among such activities. While time allocation decisions are usually not measured directly, we observe ...

Funded by Safe Kids Canada The views expressed in this report are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect those of Safe Kids Canada. Safe Kids Canada has developed a national campaign aimed at rural safety. As part of that initiative, it aims to distribute the North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT) to farm families. Their broader rural injury preventio...

This article introduces a new mobile-based application of modern information and communication technology in agriculture based on Internet Things (IoT), embedded systems an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The proposed agricultural monitoring system was designed implemented using Arduino microcontroller boards, Wi-Fi modules, water pumps electronic environmental sensors, namely temperature, humid...

BACKGROUND An outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 was identified in Oregon through an increase in Shiga toxin-producing E. coli cases with an indistinguishable, novel pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) subtyping pattern. METHODS We defined confirmed cases as persons from whom E. coli O157:H7 with the outbreak PFGE pattern was cultured during July-August 2011, and presumptive cases as pe...

Working conditions of 20 Swedish pig transport drivers (PTD) were assessed by a questionnaire, workshop, and recorded postures movements during on-farm loading, driving, unloading at abattoir vehicle cleaning. High arm positions high frequencies shoulder problems indicated an excessive physical load on shoulders. Extreme crouching inside vehicles lower back the PTDs. Inadequate design loading a...

In order to deal with the uncertainties of wind power, wind farm and electric vehicle (EV) battery switch station (BSS) were proposed to work together as an integrated system. In this paper, the collaborative scheduling problems of such a system were studied. Considering the features of the integrated system, three indices, which include battery swapping demand curtailment of BSS, wind curtailm...

Infield to zone transportation with agricultural tractor-trailer units may incur costs of up to nine times those of long distance truck-tractor units. This necessitates the implementation of an optimal cane extraction road network. This paper describes formulas derived to evaluate whether the construction of additional roads and loading zones could enhance a farm’s profitability. The formulas w...