Category: Commercial Grow

To our knowledge, there have not been any previous studies evaluating residential proximity to reported agricultural pesticide use and more subtle neurodevelopmental outcomes such as cognitive function in children. In the present study, we evaluated the relationship between prenatal residential proximity to agricultural use of a variety of neurotoxic pesticides and neurodevelopment using WISC assessed…

We can report with confidence that the land input caused considerable headaches in all the computations and may have been the cause of the extraordinary number of iterations required to achieve an optimal solution, perhaps because its quantity index is rather flat and exhibits very little variability. The estimates of the expected quantities and prices obtained…

We performed simulations for the 1984 to 1986 period using two different assumptions concerning the level of monetization of the U.S. federal budget deficit. The deficit was set at levels projected by the Congressional Budget ,I Office for 1985 and 1986. while actual levels were used for 1984. All lagged variabIes were set at their…

Pesticide exposed workers who were regularly involved in mosquito control, had higher , diastolic blood pressure , and heart rate than non-exposed workers. . In a representative sample of U.S. adults, urinary organophosphate metabolite concentrations were positively associated with higher diastolic, but not systolic, blood pressure . Additionally, a large cross-sectional study of pregnant women…

Scouring the landscape in today’s high-income countries, we find automation success stories like the ones described earlier in this paper, as well as major challenges. There is a danger that automation will not happen quickly enough to enable farmers to maintain their competitiveness in a high wage, labor-scarce, world. Farmers can respond by shifting their production…

My outcomes of interest are individual income, usual weekly hours worked, industry employment rate and welfare income received. This allows me to account for all sources of reduced individual welfare that could occur as a result of this negative market shock. When appropriate, these outcomes were logarithm transformed so as to capture the relative impact…

The possible answers to each question were never , once or twice , three to ten times , and more than ten times . These were summed, with a range of 0 to 9, where higher values reflect greater household food insecurity. We also included a simple measure to assess water insecurity, based on whether…

The increased cultivation of currants created a greater need for wooden commodities such as stakes to support the vines and crates and barrels to transport cargo. If these came from locally grown timber, deforestation would have been linked to currant cultivation in this way, as well. The degree of deforestation is a difficult thing to…

Notably, the nineteenth century saw the introduction of new dredging machines. Made of steel, powered by coal, and moved by steam, these dredging machines were much more efficient than their wooden, human-powered precursors. They could be used to excavate soil in order to dig canals, or they could be built into ships and used to…

Growers did export sesame in some years—which is grown between rice plantings—as its price was not controlled . Yet, switching to non-controlled crops is often impractical for commercial growers as commercial and oilseeds producers evolved to primarily serve internal markets. Grower associations own a network of cereal and oilseeds storage and processing facilities that are…