Category: Commercial Grow

It is likely that soil maggot pest pressure on broccoli is generally lower in the Imperial County and Fresno County, where summers are hot and dry, than in the cooler, moist Central Coast climate where the pest thrives. If the pest pressure was even moderately higher in the Central Coast than the other regions, yet…

From the Regional Board’s perspective, requiring more stringent and costly compliance standards for higher-risk farms is more fair than holding all regulated entities to the same standards. “If they are rational,” argues Sunstein , “agencies will bring enforcement actions against the most dangerous violator.” Another group of growers feel the Agricultural Waiver is unfair for…

For this reason I find it less helpful to stress the in-betweenness of the migrants; they do not so much move between two fully-formed nations as their movement causes the two places to overlap such that the internal politics of one become the internal politics of the other. They are central to the self-definition of…

In the texts that I examine, the causes of famine are generally represented as at once “natural” and social—the typical example is a drought compounding the already unequal distribution of grain—and while one or the other may be portrayed as dominant for particular political goals, the text’s reflection on the interconnections between them leads to…

Statewide regulations mandating conserving practices have also been put in place, most notably were in 2004, a law requiring water suppliers to install water meters on all customer connections by 2025 ; the imposition of water budgets and water-efficient landscaping on most new large landscapes ; and the requirement that water suppliers and local governments…

Agriculture contributes to the trade imbalances not only through the current account but also through the taxpayer cost of farm programs. Since federal government deficits are partially responsible for current trade imbalancest the huge subsidization to the agricultural sector by the federal government has contributed to the U. S. trade deficit. This trade deficit has…

Harou et al. construct a synthetic drought in 2020 based on the paleo-record, rather than GCM projections. Their results regarding agricultural water scarcity and environmental flows are consistent with other CALVIN-SWAP studies. Environmental flows are also extremely restricted. Marginal opportunity costs of environmental flows rise by one or more orders of magnitude with extreme drought as compared…

Accuracy was also limited by the low amount of data N available relative to the large dimensionality p, which is inherently the case in complex biological experiments where each batch of q experiments takes > 1 week to evaluate. Finally, the hyperparameters θ ∗ used in the multi-IS squared exponential kernel were deliberately regularized with…

Finally, the recover phase is characterized by regained functionality, for example by reducing the protect and response measures that limit system functionality, such as production lockdown. Ultimately, this can result in an increased overall system functionality at the end of a resilience cycle and before the start of the next “iteration” . For example, a system such as…

Deschenes and Kolstad also illustrate that farm profits may be more responsive to climate than annual fluctuations in temperature and precipitation. The overarching focus for many CALVIN-SWAP studies is to start with a worst-case scenario approach and see how well we fare even with some of the best-case farmer and institutional responses . Joyce et al. also illustrate…