Category: Commercial Grow

Center researchers are now compiling economic information on the actual cost savings represented by the trap cropping treatments. Pacific Gold president Eddings is happy with what he’s seen so far. In a California Farmer interview published in September 2003, Eddings noted, “Dr. Sean Swezey and his group have been a valuable asset. They use our ground…

The majority of these studies have utilized data compiled after World War II, although a study by Panayotou, Peterson and sachs used data from 1870 to1994. Nearly all studies involved a panel of countries.We utilized CO2 data provided by the World Bank originating from 15 Latin American countries over a 21 year period . For…

Because of this diversity, aggregation is likely to be misleading and to introduce error into the analysis. Second, unlike previous studies, this study focuses explicitly on supply reliability and the uncertainty over supply that confronts water users around the state at the time they make their important water use decisions. Researchers seek to measure this explicitly,…

To explore the potential for voluntary mitigation of agricultural emissions in Yolo County, local officials held a series of stakeholder meetings in 2010 and 2011 where members of the agricultural community provided input on proposed mitigation strategies and policies outlined in the county’s climate action plan. Table 7 and the paragraphs below highlight many of…

The analysis in this section uses data from 100 years of local climate history and 60 years of crop acreages in Yolo County, California, to establish statistical relationships between climate change and changes in the crop acreage pattern. Most of the land in Yolo County is devoted to field crops such as alfalfa, rice, and…

The curriculum covers cross section of production/agronomic technologies of various crops in Malawi.” In total, four participants noted using written lessons to educate farmer about a topic. Leaflets were the most commonly used written materials and include information and images about a particular technology or production process. Participants noted that leaflets, pamphlets, and posters were…

During such a period, excessive supply has to be eliminated and output price has to rise sufficiently to allow a fair return from farming without support. Once agricultural markets attain equilibria, it is desirable to minimize the use of revenue support programs. The excessive productive capacity of agriculture gives rise to policies that attempt to reduce…

We have analyzed these changes by assuming that the technical relationship in 1989 between the number of persons employed and the amount of labor required would apply in 1994. This implies no change in technology between the two years and indicates what 1994 employment would have been under that condition .The difference between that theoretical…

To the degree that work histories affect current wages, farm workers may try to mold their work histories so as to increase their agricultural wages. For example, if specializing in farm work raised their wages, they might turn down temporary non-farm work jobs. On the other hand, if obtaining non-agricultural employment allows them to hold out for higher paying farm jobs than otherwise, workers…

No residential use of OPs was reported by participants. Our assumption that 100% of absorbed OP dose was excreted as urinary diethyl and dimethyl metabolites may underestimate dose, as approximately 20% of the OPs used in the study area do not metabolize to any of the DAP metabolites . Furthermore, the OPs that do devolve…