Agricultural Cooperatives in the 21st Century
Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
ISBN : 1428906517
Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century
Author :
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 1997-09-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Book Description
Sensors, satellite photography, and multispectral imaging are associated with futuristic space and communications science. Increasingly, however, they are considered part of the future of agriculture. The use of advanced technologies for crop production is known as precision agriculture, and its rapid emergence means the potential for revolutionary change throughout the agricultural sector. Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century provides an overview of the specific technologies and practices under the umbrella of precision agriculture, exploring the full implications of their adoption by farmers and agricultural managers. The volume discusses how precision agriculture could dramatically affect decisionmaking in irrigation, crop selection, pest management, environmental issues, and pricing and market conditions. It also examines the geographical dimensions--farm, regional, national--of precision agriculture and looks at how quickly and how widely the agricultural community can be expected to adopt the new information technologies. Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century highlights both the uncertainties and the exciting possibilities of this emerging approach to farming. This book will be important to anyone concerned about the future of agriculture: policymakers, regulators, scientists, farmers, educators, students, and suppliers to the agricultural industry.
Cooperatives and Local Development
Author : Christopher D. Merrett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315290286
Book Description
First Published in 2004. The market economy has changed profoundly over the past two centuries. In the nineteenth century, business enterprises were largely single-product ventures, managed directly by the owners and rooted within national economies. In the twentieth century, firms employed managers who were not owners. Firms also evolved into multiproduct, multiunit entities that could employ thousands of workers. In the twenty-first century, many firms operate on a global scale, taking advantage of free trade policies and rapidly evolving computer and telecommunications technologies. Given this potential, it is crucial that producers, consumers, economic developers, and researchers realize how co-ops can promote local economic and community development. Hence, this book includes the perceptions of experts on a variety of cooperative issues, including the challenges involved in starting a co-op and in understanding its impact on surrounding communities. This book can be especially useful because it provides the theoretical foundations and practical applications of cooperative behavior.
The Cooperative Society
Author : E. G. Nadeau
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780998066202
Book Description
In this book, we present a hypothesis that humans may be on the threshold of a new historical stage, one characterized by cooperation, democracy, the equitable distribution of resources, and a sustainable relationship with nature. We can act strategically on a range of activities to become a more cooperative society.
The Federal Credit Union Act
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Banks and banking, Cooperative
ISBN :
Book Description
Farmer Cooperatives
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
ISBN :
Book Description
Agricultural Policy of the United States
Author : Stephanie A. Mercier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030364526
Book Description
This book serves as a foundational reference of U.S. land settlement and early agricultural policy, a comprehensive journey through the evolution of 20th century agricultural policy, and a detailed guide to the key agricultural policy issues of the early 21st century. This book integrates the legal, economic and political concepts and ideas that guided U.S. agricultural policy from colonial settlement to the 21st century, and it applies those concepts to the policy issues agriculture will face over the next generation. The book is organized into three sections. Section one introduces the main themes of the book, explores the pre-Columbian period and early European settlement, and traces the first 150 years of U.S. agricultural policy starting with the post revolution period and ending with the “golden age” of agriculture in the early 20th century. Section two outlines that grand bargain of the 1930s that initiated the modern era of government intervention into agricultural markets and traces this policy evolution to the early days of the 21st century. The third section provides an in-depth examination of six policy issues that dominate current policy discussions and will impact policy decisions for the next generation: trade, environment/conservation, commodity checkoff programs, crop insurance, biofuels, and domestic nutrition programs.
Farmer Cooperatives
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
ISBN :
Book Description
Cooperative Historical Statistics
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
ISBN :
Book Description
Rural Cooperatives
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
ISBN :
