The relative importance of these two factors in Illinois cash grain farmers' machinery investment decisions is studied in an experimental setting.; Operators of seven commercial farms in central Illinois with differing tenure, leverage and machinery complement age characteristics participated. Financial ...
years of experience in the grain industry and that time has been focused on farmers in central Illinois. Russ Bauer and Larry Poppe had several years of Ag sales and service experience before starting Automated Agri-Systems in 1983. They rented a building in LeRoy, Illinois and the two of…...
Own stocks are especially central for the VPCs (e.g., providing nearly 80 % of sweet potatoes cuttings) as well as for dryland cereals (sorghum and millets). For these latter crops, small seeds and dry storage conditions present fewer challenges to self-storage than for legumes such as bea...
To evaluate the potential economic value of climate forecasts in East-Central Illinois, Mjelde et al. (1988) used a dynamic programming model where farmers make sequential decisions of inputs over time. Their findings indicated that seasonal forecasts have potential to enhance the returns from crop...
Of these factors, how and through whom information about a conservation practice reaches a farmer can impact whether they choose to adopt. Diffusion of innovation theory (Rogers2003) and social network theory (Prell2012) propose that an individual’s social network is central to the diffusion of ...
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In contrast, Barishal, the northernmost district of south-central Bangladesh, remains outside of polders, which makes it vulnerable to tidal flooding, but it generally does not experience soil or water salinity. While these three study sites are in the same agro-ecological zone, their different...
Rice and wheat are grown mainly in developing countries in Asia, whereas maize is grown globally in developing countries of Africa, Asia as well as South and Central America [3]. Cowpea is a legume, which is also grown by smallholder farmers mainly in Western Africa, Asia, Central and ...
These participants were selected because Dutch and German farmers are representatives of Western European farmers with larger farms and are more inclined to innovate, while Slovenian farmers are representatives of Central and Eastern European farmers with smaller farms and are more reluctant to innovate ...