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FAPRI Environmental Projects 2000
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001-02)
Since 1995, the Food and Agricultural Policy
Research Institute at the University of Missouri (FAPRI) has been providing analytical support in several areas around the state as communities try to come to grips with various ...
Developing a policy for low-level presence (LLP) : a Canadian case study
(AgBioForum, 2013)
and building international collaborations to raise awareness of the impacts of LLP on trade globally. This article details the collaborative government- industry process and the current status of the draft domestic LLP policy and international engagement....
Should you incorporate your farm?
(University of Missouri, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1965)
The competing policy paradigms of agricultural biotechnology : implications and opportunities for emerging and developing economies
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Agricultural science and technology policies -- including public funding of crop genetics research, intellectual property protections, and biosafety approvals of regulated crops -- can be understood to work together within a 'policy paradigm...
Sustainable energy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
kinds of energy. This initiative also examines policy and its implications, business models, environmental impacts and the cultural and social consequences of energy uses and production....
Safe tractor operation
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2021)
"Work-related injuries caused 416 farmer and farm worker deaths in 2017, resulting in a fatality rate of 20.4 deaths per 100,000 farm workers. The National Agricultural Tractor Safety Initiative reports that tractors cause about 50% of all farm...
The Net Gain to Cotton Farmers of a Natural Refuge Plan for Bollgard II[trademark] Cotton
(AgBioForum, 2007)
This paper presents an evaluation of the initial potential economic benefit at both the farm-level and to Monsanto Company of a change in refuge policy for Bollgard II[trademark] cotton. The proposed policy change is to eliminate the cotton refuge...
Promoting tree-based intercropping systems in the political arena : a cognitive analysis of public policies in agriculture, natural resources and rural development in Quebec
(2013)
accurately addressing issues related to environmental deterioration, landscape degradation and rural devitalization. However, financing the implementation of these systems on farms remains a challenge. In fact, no clear policy on agroforestry or TBI systems...
The central theme of American agricultural history
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1984)
"American agricultural history is not only the story of change. Tradition has also been important. An agrarian tradition took shape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that exalted farming and rural life, looking upon them as having great...
Central issues in agricultural policy : report of Seminar on Agricultural Marketing and Policy jointly sponsored by University of Missouri--Columbia and M.G. and Johnnye D. Perry Foundation of Robstown, Texas, held October 8-9, 1973, Columbia, Missouri.
(Agricultural Experiment Station University of Missouri--Colombia, 1974)
Quality as value-added bioeconomy : analysis of the EU policies and empirical evidence from Polish agriculture
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2018)
The paper is an attempt to assess the extent to which policies designed and implemented for bioeconomy development in the European Union address the societal expectations for holistically perceived quality delivered not only with product...
Adoption and productivity of breeding technologies : evidence from US dairy farms
(AgBioForum, 2013)
Adoption and associated profitability of advanced breeding technologies are analyzed for US dairy farms. We account for correlation and selection associated with breeding technology adoption decisions. The bivariate probit model with selection...
Changes in farms' environmental sustainability in Poland -- progress, or regress?
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2018)
In the year 2012, the European Commission adopted the strategic document underlining the need for bioeconomy development, which requires the implementation of sustainable agriculture. In view of the above, the need for defining the direction of farm...
Sustainable energy : making it a reality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This brochure describes the efforts of the Mizzou Advantage Sustainable Energy group in addressing sustainable energy issues.
Latinos in Southwest Missouri : Capturing the American Dream through Farming
(Cambio Center, 2006)
Even as farm ownership is declining in the US as a whole, an increasing number of Latinos are entering the farming business. In fact, Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group of farm owner/operators in Missouri and in the US as a whole...
The industrialization of agriculture : selected papers from the Breimyer Seminar on Agricultural Policy, November 16-17, 1995
(Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station, 1995)
The Ethical Challenges Farming: A Report on Conversations with Missouri Corn and Soybean Producers
(2004-09)
Interviews with Missouri corn and soybean farmers reveal what farmers consider are important ethical challenges in agriculture. In contrast to the literature, which characterizes ethical challenges in term of philosophical ...
Farmers' Interest in Growing GM Crops in the UK, in the Context of a Range of On-farm Coexistence Issues
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2014)
Although no GM crops currently are licensed for commercial production in the UK, as opposition to GM crops by consumers softens, this could change quickly. Although past studies have examined attitudes of UK farmers toward GM technologies in general...
An analysis of the agricultural base and potential in State Economic Area 2b in northeast Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1965)
) evaluate the agricultural potential of the area in terms of the basic land resource, and (2) to project the number of farms that might exist in the area-under assumptions of current optimum technology. The overall objective of the study was to provide a...