La producción integrada trata de conjugar objetivos tan dispares como la protección del medio ambiente y la rentabilidad de las explotaciones. Por su evidente interés público, dicho método de producción agraria es objeto de una importante actividad administrativa de fomento que, en...

La produccion integrada trata de conjugar objectivos tan dispares como la proteccion del medio ambiente y la rentabilidad de las explotaciones. Por su evidente interes publico, dicho metodo de produccion agraria es objecto de una importante actividad administrativa de fomento que, en Espana, se...

This paper examines the impact of sex-sorted semen adoption on dairy farm level economics. Representative dairies are used to simulate the financial impacts of moving to this new technology. Key economic, financial and herd dynamics will be compared among dairies to show how the uses of...

Farm management skills can affect farm managers' performance. In this article, farm management performance is analyzed based on yearly Illinois Farm Business Farm Management (FBFM) panel data across 6,760 farms from 1996 through 2011. Two out-of-sample measures of skill are used to analyze the...

Among the family-farms in western Germany, significant regional differences are observable. They exist not only with respect to present farm-structure but also with respect to patterns of structural change. In the present paper, the different farm-development-strategies that cause these regional...

Rural broadband infrastructure and service has received a significant amount of funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. These funds should increase broadband availability, but will broadband be used in rural areas and in particular by farmers? This paper uses...