Category: Commercial Grow
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Drip-irrigated tomatoes received three N application rates and two irrigation treatments
A smaller amount of N was taken up by the plant when irrigated with 32.3 as compared to 16.8 cm of water for each N application rate.This is presumably because the extra water leached some of the N below the root zone. On the other hand, higher head weight was achieved under 32.3 as compared…
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The heat required for this is currently provided by grid electricity
Now that SB 489 has removed this regulatory barrier, financing for projects which use crop residues for on‐farm energy generation will be facilitated . In this policy context, a case study of the mitigation potential of on‐farm renewable energy generation is very timely. The main objective of this paper is therefore to evaluate the mitigation potential…
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By the end of the budget the IP solution has accumulated 7% more utility than the greedy
Several recent studies have implemented utility maximization or maximal covering methods for conservation resource allocation problems for purposes other than reserve design . This set is not meant to be an exhaustive review, but a representative example of an increasingly common approach in conservation planning. Three of these studies used exact optimization methods like integer…
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The share of off-farm AFS employment in total employment first rises and then falls
A fair number of farm workers who leave the farm remain within the broader food supply chain. In many low-income countries, off-farm work in the AFS already makes up about 25 to 33 percent of overall off-farm work . Off-farm AFS work is still relatively small as a share of total employment ; however, it rises to…
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Disruptive politics and politics as usual help uncover conditions that favor reform
The US plan was highly aggressive and market oriented. Dubbed the “Zero Option”, it called for the complete elimination of farmer programs, described as “all forms of support which distort trade” within ten years . Export subsidies, which were considered by US negotiators to be the most trade distorting, were to be reduced by 90%…
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Cross-compliance conditioned the receipt of income payments on meeting environmental standards
The cereals farmers reasoned that Fischler’s reform, with cuts to price supports being compensated for by direct income payments, was far better than the uncertainty of an unreformed CAP. They feared that if left unreformed, the CAP would be subject to dramatic price cuts in the future to bring it into alignment with budgetary standards,…
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The former government minister identified three other priorities
The French supported a reform that would continue along and expand the reform path started by MacSharry by lowering prices in exchange for a transition to direct payments, but were dissatisfied with Commission proposals for compensation. Specifically, France sought to protect and increase compensation for small, particularly livestock producers. France’s position in these negotiations was…
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The lack of progress in agriculture was a concern for all sectors
For the most part, small adjustments were made to spending and revenues, while the basic logic of the CAP remained unchanged. The 1988 Stabilizer Reform did not attempt systemic reform, a change to the CAP’s fundamental paradigm of supporting incomes via incentivized production. Without an opening created by disruptive politics, this type of fundamental reform…
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Appeals are also made to sustain and preserve traditional rural life and practices
Indeed, for a variety of reasons, cutting agricultural spending may be even more difficult than cutting social spending. The second part of the argument explores the circumstances that may make CAP reform possible. When CAP reform occurs in isolation, as a purely agricultural or budgetary issue, little or no change is possible. Conversely, when CAP…