Switch grass also had poor stand establishment when compared to other grasses

Countries may provide more subsidies if the political accommodations that they buy are especially valuable. Indeed, Table 1 suggests that subsidies are more likely to occur in countries with a major reserve or in authoritarian countries, such as Iran or Venezuela.This research aims to explain the impact of the introduction of bio-fuels on fuel markets …

The challenges facing the Air Resources Board are not completely uncharted

Livestock production is the agricultural sub-sector with the highest emissions and in turn with the highest potential for mitigation finding. It uses approximately 37% of the state’s agricultural land finding, and it generated 61% of California’s agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in 2009. The remaining 63% of agricultural land is used for field, fruit and nut …

Previous meta-analyses have also examined various aspects of N2O emissions from conservation tillage

The large N2O emissions from agricultural lands are of particular concern given both its high global warming potential relative to CH4 and CO2 and its contribution to stratospheric ozone depletion.Conservation tillage, including no-tillage and reduced tillage management, is increasingly being adopted on agricultural lands worldwide.About 10% of global arable lands, i.e.∼125 million hectares, are currently managed using conservation …

How might private and state-owned enterprises differentially affect other markets?

The authors report that the US government had no intentions for the firms other than as investors, and intended from the beginning to sell off the firms.Because subsidies and other soft budget constraints were not applied to these firms, and firm ownership was perceived to be transferrable, efficiency differences between ownership types were likely diminished relative to …

One such simplification will be to focus on a single crop for any given region

The relationships between crop yields, weather and climate have been the focus of a great deal of attention in the Earth system science literature.This is due to concerns about securing food supplies for our growing populations and the potential challenges that climate change poses.Most studies have been concerned with establishing the current relationships between climate …

Gillin provides interesting insight into the importance of water for the people of Moche

In Gillin’s ethnographic account of the town of Moche, he observed that many dishes were cooked or boiled over an open flame, either in ceramic or metal containers placed on an adobe brick stove or on rock supports placed on the ground. Gillin lists a variety of one pot meals, including soups, stews, or gruels, which often …

It is likely that some of these rodents survive baiting by consuming a sub-lethal dose

The higher incidence in the western states may suggest that workers in this region are at higher risk of drift exposure; however, it may also have resulted from better case identification in California and Washington states through their higher staffed surveillance programs, extensive use of workers’ compensation reports in these states, and use of active surveillance …

Individuals working on a resources or database should be named on the website

Distributed and independent genome projects produce assemblies and annotations that can be beneficial to research on related species, if researchers can discover them. However, even a multi-species database that manages gene families may not contain all gene data of interest to the communities it serves. Services that assign new data, supplied by researchers or by …

The 20th century brought significant changes to the economics of global agriculture

Beginning in the 1970s, economic researchers began to study the potential impacts of bans on the use of sub-therapeutic antibiotics on the pork, poultry, and beef sectors and on U.S. consumers, but there has been little study of how heterogeneity impacts antibiotic use, and in turn, how it impacts returns to using antibiotics in U.S. …

We use digital agriculture for its semantic breadth and increasing currency

The ‘urbanization of hinterland’ requires the ability to observe, interpret, and manage processes of extended urbanization from zones of concentration. We then “bring information back in” by introducing a more materialist analysis of the role of information in global capitalist space, which centers on computation capital: the infrastructure necessary to transport and make legible enormous amounts …