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1. Understanding Filipino Rice Farmer Preference Heterogeneity for Varietal Trait Improvements: A Latent Class Analysis

Author:
Maligalig, Rio; Demont, Matty; Umberger, Wendy J.; Peralta, Alexandra
Source:
Journal of agricultural economics 2021 v.72 no.1 pp. 134-157
ISSN:
0021-857X
Subject:
farmers; farmers' attitudes,   etc   ; Philippines; farms; rice;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Using an experimental methodology based on investment games, we examine whether smallholder rice farmers from Nueva Ecija, Philippines have heterogeneous preferences for improvements in 10 rice varietal traits. We use a latent class cluster approach to identify different segments of rice producing households and their distinct preferences for trait improvements. These clusters were characterised p ...
DOI:
10.1111/1477-9552.12392

2. The domestication triangle: How humans, animals and technology shape each other – The case of automated milking systems

Author:
Finstad, Terje; Aune, Margrethe; Egseth, Kine Ariela
Source:
Journal of rural studies 2021 v.84 pp. 211-220
ISSN:
0743-0167
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; automation; domestication; Norway;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... This article investigates the domestication of milking robots, most often labelled automatic milking systems (AMS) into dairy farms in Norway. It shows that producers of AMS tend to represent the integration of the technology as a process where their expert systems aid and guide the farmer so that she learns how to be an ‘AMS farmer’. However, farmers' AMS-stories shows us that learning to live wi ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.03.006

3. How Do Farmers Learn from Extension Services? Evidence from Malawi

Author:
Maertens, Annemie; Michelson, Hope; Nourani, Vesall
Source:
American journal of agricultural economics 2021 v.103 no.2 pp. 569-595
ISSN:
0002-9092
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; agricultural economics; Malawi;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... Though extension services have long since proved their value to agricultural production and farmer prosperity, their record in sub‐Saharan Africa has been mixed. To study the impact of such programs on farmers' learning about agricultural technologies, we implemented a quasi‐randomized controlled trial and collected detailed panel data among Malawian farmers. Based on those findings, we develop a ...
DOI:
10.1111/ajae.12135

4. Pathways of action followed by Flemish beef farmers – an integrative view on agroecology as a practice

Author:
Tessier, Louis; Bijttebier, Jo; Marchand, Fleur; Baret, Philippe V.
Source:
Agroecology and sustainable food systems 2021 v.45 no.1 pp. 111-133
ISSN:
2168-3573
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; agroecology; beef; Belgium;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... In the face of longstanding social and technological trends, the application of agroecological insights at beef farms in Flanders may at first seem a curious proposition. We found, however, that beef farmers pursue agroecological principles through an impressive diversity of practices in this context. In 37 semi-structured interviews, we asked farmers how they put into practice a set of principles ...
DOI:
10.1080/21683565.2020.1755764

5. New Farmer Identity: The Emergence of a Post‐Productivist Agricultural Regime in China

Author:
Xie, Xiaoru
Source:
Sociologia ruralis 2021 v.61 no.1 pp. 52-73
ISSN:
0038-0199
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; farms; China;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... The back‐to‐the‐land migration has become an emerging phenomenon in the developing countries over recent years. In this context, more and more people go to the countryside to practice peasant‐like agriculture, which gives rise to the ‘repeasantisation’. This research aims to understand the relations between new farmer identity and an emerging agricultural regime in recent years in China. It invest ...
DOI:
10.1111/soru.12322

6. Less is more: Negative relationship between biomass density and sea lice infestation in marine salmon farming

Author:
van Walraven, Nathalie; Fjørtoft, Helene Børretzen; Stene, Anne
Source:
Aquaculture 2021 v.539 pp. 736602
ISSN:
0044-8486
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; Salmonidae; biomass; mortality; salmon;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... The relationship between biomass density and sea lice infestation is of particular interest in marine salmonid aquaculture. Data from a commercial fish farmer with parallel production of both organic and conventional salmon at the same site made it possible to study aspects of this relationship in a field situation. The maximum allowed biomass density for organically produced salmon is 10 kg/m³ an ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.736602

7. Exchanges among farmers’ collectives in support of sustainable agriculture: From review to reconceptualization

Author:
Slimi, Celina; Prost, Magali; Cerf, Marianne; Prost, Lorène
Source:
Journal of rural studies 2021 v.83 pp. 268-278
ISSN:
0743-0167
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; agroecology; stakeholders; sustainable agriculture;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Successful sustainable transitions require an understanding of the drivers and resources needed to support the required changes. While the importance of farmers' collectives in these transitions is underlined by various scientific studies and public policies, we lack an overview of how scholars are dealing with this topic. This paper has two main objectives: i) a review of the studies that explore ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.01.019

8. Survival analysis of farm bankruptcy filings: Evaluating the time to completion of chapter 12 bankruptcy cases

Author:
Dinterman, Robert; Katchova, Ani L.
Source:
Agribusiness 2021 v.37 no.2 pp. 324-347
ISSN:
0742-4477
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; agribusiness; bankruptcy; debt; farms;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... We examine trends in bankruptcy completion times and financial characteristics for farmers filing for chapter 12 bankruptcy after it became a permanent fixture in bankruptcy law to assess justifications for the recently enacted Family Farmer Bankruptcy Clarification Act of 2017 and Family Farmer Relief Act of 2019. Since 2007, chapter 12 filers have seen noticeable increases in their debt levels w ...
DOI:
10.1002/agr.21662

9. The role of access to finance for smallholders' seed business growth in Nepal

Author:
Choudhary, Dyutiman; Banskota, Kamal; Khanal, Narayan; Gyawali, Prithvi
Source:
Development in practice 2021 v.31 no.2 pp. 139-149
ISSN:
1364-9213
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; agribusiness; outreach; stakeholders; Nepal;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Finance is vital for commercialising seed businesses and the Government of Nepal has launched a priority sector-lending plan (PSLP) for financing agriculture. This article assesses the use and role of finance and the challenges in accessing PSLP loans, using interviews with 197 farmer households and stakeholders. The results show that awareness about PSLP can increase gross margins by 46%, but far ...
DOI:
10.1080/09614524.2020.1828828

10. A participatory, farmer-led approach to changing practices around antimicrobial use on UK farms

Author:
Morgans, Lisa C.; Bolt, Sarah; Bruno-McClung, Elizabeth; van Dijk, Lisa; Escobar, Maria P.; Buller, Henry J.; Main, David C.J.; Reyher, Kristen K.
Source:
Journal of dairy science 2021 v.104 no.2 pp. 2212-2230
ISSN:
0022-0302
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; agricultural research; farms; England;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Farmer-led, participatory approaches are being increasingly employed in agricultural research, with promising results. This study aimed to understand how a participatory approach based on the Danish stable schools could help to achieve practical, farmer-led changes that reduced reliance on antimicrobials in the UK. Five facilitated farmer action groups comprising 30 dairy farms across South West E ...
DOI:
10.3168/jds.2020-18874

11. Adoption pathway analysis: Representing the dynamics and diversity of adoption for agricultural practices

Author:
Montes de Oca Munguia, Oscar; Pannell, David J.; Llewellyn, Rick; Stahlmann-Brown, Philip
Source:
Agricultural systems 2021 v.191 pp. 103173
ISSN:
0308-521X
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; farms; pastoralism; surveys; New Zealand;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Scholars have argued that empirical studies of adoption in agriculture should consider adoption as a dynamic process rather than a binary choice, but many empirical studies continue to be based on cross-sectional surveys in which adoption is treated binarily. In general, surveys put more emphasis on investigating adoption drivers (i.e. independent variables) at the expense of defining complete ado ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103173

12. Lambs’ live weight estimation using 3D images

Author:
Samperio, E.; Lidón, I.; Rebollar, R.; Castejón-Limas, M.; Álvarez-Aparicio, C.
Source:
Animal 2021 v.15 no.5 pp. 100212
ISSN:
1751-7311
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; body weight; economic costs; profitability;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... The sheep sector has not suffered the technification that other livestock sectors have. The lack of technological knowledge of the farmers and the economic limitations of the sector have made this technification difficult. One of the most widely used technologies is Precision Livestock Farming (PLF). PLF has already been used in other livestock sectors to improve farming efficiency. In the light o ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.animal.2021.100212

13. New farmers in the south of Italy: Capturing the complexity of contemporary strategies and networks

Author:
Dourian, Tara
Source:
Journal of rural studies 2021 v.84 pp. 63-75
ISSN:
0743-0167
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; farms; markets; modernization; peasantry; Italy; Sicily;     Show all 7 Subjects
Abstract:
... Though obscured by agricultural modernization efforts in the 1950s, peasant and peasant-like farm realities persist. Since the 1990s, Italy, like the rest of Europe, witnessed a wave of re-peasantization—a conceptual framework introduced by rural sociologist Jan Douwe van der Ploeg to mark the emergence of a mode of agriculture that is distinctively more peasant-like. Using a qualitative, field-ba ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.03.003

14. Farmer preferences in contracting with modern retail in Indonesia: A choice experiment

Author:
Widadie, Fanny; Bijman, Jos; Trienekens, Jacques
Source:
Agribusiness 2021 v.37 no.2 pp. 371-392
ISSN:
0742-4477
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; agribusiness; logit analysis; markets; vegetables; Indonesia;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... Understanding the preferences of smallholder farmers for contracting can help in making contracts more sustainable. This paper presents the results of a choice experiment (CE) among smallholder farmers in Indonesia to assess their preferences for accepting contracts with modern retail. The CE was based on attributes of actual sales transactions in modern retail and traditional retail channels. A t ...
DOI:
10.1002/agr.21652

15. Impact of Drip Fertigation on Weed Population, Dry Weight and Yield of Onion in Semiarid Tropical Region of India

Author:
Jayakumar, M.; Rajavel, M.; Surendran, U.
Source:
National Academy science letters 2021 v.44 no.2 pp. 87-89
ISSN:
0250-541X
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; bulbs; fertigation; onions; tropics; weeds; India;     Show all 7 Subjects
Abstract:
... Field demonstrations were conducted during rabi season for two years in seven locations of Tiruppur District, Tamil Nadu state to study the weed density under drip fertigation and conventional method of cultivation (Farmer’s practice). Nine weed species emerged with a frequency of more than 50% irrespective of the locations. Drip fertigation with recommended dose of fertilizers (RDF) produced the ...
DOI:
10.1007/s40009-020-00963-7

16. The Family Farming Culture of Dairy Farmers: A Case‐Study of the Illawarra Region, New South Wales

Author:
Hu, Ren; Gill, Nicholas
Source:
Sociologia ruralis 2021 v.61 no.2 pp. 398-421
ISSN:
0038-0199
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; farms; issues and policy; lifestyle; markets;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Since the 1980s, many parts of rural Australia have experienced persistent financial difficulties. However, there is a lack of account on how farmers have improved business performance while maintaining traditional farming culture. By focusing on dairy farmers in the Illawarra region in New South Wales, Australia, this study examines the evolution of family farming culture under global agricultura ...
DOI:
10.1111/soru.12329

17. A New, Practical Animal Welfare Assessment for Dairy Farmers

Author:
van Eerdenburg, Frank J. C. M.; Di Giacinto, Alice M.; Hulsen, Jan; Snel, Bert; Stegeman, J. Arjan
Source:
Animals 2021 v.11 no.3
ISSN:
2076-2615
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; animal welfare; farms; welfare assessment; Netherlands;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... The Welfare Quality® assessment protocol (WQ) is the most extensive way to measure animal welfare. This study was set up to determine if resource-based welfare indicators, that are easier and faster to measure, could replace the more time consuming, animal-based measurements of the WQ. The WQ was applied on 60 dairy farms in the Netherlands, with good, moderate and poor welfare. The WQ protocol cl ...
DOI:
10.3390/ani11030881

18. Farmers’ heterogeneous preferences towards results-based environmental policies

Author:
Niskanen, Olli; Tienhaara, Annika; Haltia, Emmi; Pouta, Eija
Source:
Land use policy 2021 v.102 pp. 105227
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; agri-environmental policy; farms; land policy;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Heterogeneity of farmers’ preferences and willingness to accept compensation (WTA) related to a results-based agri-environmental policy were investigated using a choice experiment and latent class analysis. A quarter of farmers would be willing to switch to a results-based agri-environmental scheme (AES) with a moderate compensation request, whereas one quarter supported the status quo. Willingnes ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105227

19. Prices paid for farmland in Ontario: Does buyer type matter?

Author:
Vyn, Richard J.; Shang, Max Zongyuan
Source:
Canadian journal of agricultural economics 2021 v.69 no.1 pp. 59-72
ISSN:
0008-3976
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; agricultural land; agricultural productivity; farms; Ontario;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... In the wake of the substantial increases in farmland values that have occurred in Ontario since 2008, concerns have been expressed regarding the potential influence of nonfarmer buyers, such as investment companies and foreign buyers, on prices paid for farmland. To examine whether these concerns may be warranted, this paper estimates the impact of nonfarmer buyers on sale prices for farmland in O ...
DOI:
10.1111/cjag.12253

20. Heterogeneity in Farmers’ Social Preferences and the Design of Green Payment Schemes

Author:
Banerjee, Prasenjit; Pal, Rupayan; Wossink, Ada; Asher, James
Source:
Environmental and resource economics 2021 v.78 no.2 pp. 201-226
ISSN:
0924-6460
Subject:
farmers,   etc   ; biodiversity; models; private lands; surveys; Scotland;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... We examine how social preferences affect the workings of voluntary green payment schemes and show that a regulator could use facilitation services along with a social reward to generate better ecological outcome at less cost by exploiting a farmer’s social preferences to gain a green social-image/reputation. To motivate our model, we first present the results of an incentivized elicitation survey ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10640-020-00529-7